The problem with
magic formula companies is that too many of the stocks in the top 50 are value traps whose business models aren't sustainable, and are on the list when the past 12 months is a poor predictor of future returns.
Just know that you can retrieve the highest ranked
Magic Formula companies at www.magicformulainvesting.com.
Not exact matches
And, there is no
magic formula to success — simply buy a diverse mix of high - quality
companies and leave them alone.
The book is not a «how to analyze a
company» book, nor does it have any «
magic formulas».
got to youtube and search for
formula for disaster and baby bottle death and see how the
formula companies are working their
magic in other countries less fortunate than ours!
I tested the «
magic formula» from Joel Greenblatt for european
companies (MSCI Europe as sample)- the result was: no significant return difference between the
magic formula und a simple value strategy.
The project yielded some great insight into Joel Greenblatt's «
Magic Formula» — a simple process for buying good
companies at good prices — and into how strategies for buying
companies at pessimistic prices perform when price - to - earnings multiples contract.
A
company with a
magic formula score of 100 is in 100th position out of the stock universe of your last screen.
By eliminating
companies that earn ordinary or poor returns on capital, the
magic formula starts with a group of
companies that have a high return on capital.
With high returns on assets and a low P / E it is not surprising that Garmin shows up on Joel Greenblatt's
magic formula investing site for the top 30
companies with a market cap over a billion.
I've included a column in the spreadsheet with each
company's
magic formula ranking.
By that chart, I wonder if using t
magic formula investing strategy with getting in in October and getting out the following August, then use the September to research a few
companies for your next year.
Do you think following the
Magic Formula literally by - the - book is a valid investing approach for an individual investor, assuming he or she believes that buying «cheap» and «good»
companies will in the long run lead to good things?
However, I think from time to time one should try to broaden the horizon and take a step back from investment book with «
magic formulas» to pick winning stocks to books which try to explain how
companies work.
The Greenblatt
Magic formula for instance ranks
companies based on ROC and Earnings yield and then sums up the 2 ranks.
It would be great if you could explain the difference between Joel Greenblatt style of investing where one pays lower multiples for high quality
companies vs Paying up for quality where one pays slightly higher multiples compared to the
magic formula style.
The next
company on the
Magic Formula list is Forward Industries (FORD).
Because there are so many auto insurance
companies in the state — each with their own ways of considering you as a risk — there is no «
magic formula» for knowing how much higher your premium might be.
But because insurance
companies are free to use their own underwriting criteria and set their own rates, there is no «
magic formula» for determining how much higher your rates will be.
There's no
magic formula to calculate it, but carefully consider how much money your
company would need to survive while you search for someone to replace the key person.