Sentences with phrase «other value investors failed»

I don't know if Ackman and other value investors failed to cut Valeant losses because they fell in love with the company or because they were unable to see or acknowledge their mistake, but the moral of the story is that concentrated investors watching the basket closely can still make costly mistakes.

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In Deep Value: Why Activist Investors and Other Contrarians Battle for Control of Losing Corporations (Wiley Finance, 2014), I examined one such example of an undervalued, overcapitalized company that failed to take its opportunity until two activists stepped up the pressure, and the outstanding returns that followed.

But a Value Investor who fails to consider valuations might do okay all the same if his assessments of all the other factors he takes into consideration are sharp enough.