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However, in the event that an offer emerged, the board was keen to ensure that investors were aware of
the true value of the company.
Trend investors don't really care about
the true value of a company — they would argue that a company's true value is the stock price.
We are strong believers in the vital service that Barnes & Noble provides as the nation's largest book retailer, and we have accumulated a meaningful ownership stake in the Company, as we think that the current approximately $ 520 million market value of Barnes & Noble is unconscionably low and fails to reflect
the true value of the Company.
Without a broad education that covers accounting, financial modelling, economics, math and statistics, it's really hard to estimate
the true value of a company.
In order to find
the true value of a company, as Bruce Greenwald always says, start with the balance sheet and ignore DCF.
Graham's point was that fear, greed, and other emotions (the voting machine) can drive short - term market fluctuations which in turn cause disconnects between the price and
true value of a company's shares.
In many cases, reported book value for non-financial companies vastly overstate or understate
the true value of the company in liquidation.
Companies are buying stock merely to inflate the stock price (this is what we want, so do we know
the true value of the company better than the insiders?)
The true value of a company may never come out if there is no threat of a change in control.
A concentrated, Buffett - style investor will sometimes look at a Graham - style, cigar butt investor and say: «You're making valuation decisions based on over-simplified metrics like PE or price to cash flow or price to book when
the true value of a company is the sum of discounted future cash flows.
In chapter two Carlisle provides the foundation upon which all deep value activists live:
the true value of a company is not the same as the price.
In many ways, the Enterprise Value indicates
the true value of the company better than the market value (which refers to just the common stock part of the capital structure).
For value investors, enterprise value gets closer to
the true value of the company.
If
the true value of the company is $ 8 billion, this is one sweet deal for Zell.
It also has some disadvantages — for example, the market's refusal to recognize
the true value of your company even when it has built a pretty impressive track record, says Leo S. Ullman, chairman, CEO and president of Cedar Shopping Centers Inc., a Port Washington, N.Y. - based shopping center REIT.
I'm sure that the New York - based REIT is a sound business, but the complex structure seems to provide less transparency, often distorting
the true value of the company.