«Given that
value traps often result from companies squandering your capital, we put a lot of emphasis on management's capital - allocation prowess.
Not exact matches
Unfortunately, to protect against such revelations and tie sponsors down, plan providers
often use back end loads and / or provisions to recapture returns on stable
value funds, leaving many plan sponsors feeling
trapped.
In practice,
value investors (including ourselves)
often get
trapped in companies with significant underlying
value that perennially trade at a discount to that
value.
These companies can
often be «
value traps» — wherein shareholder
value is under - realized (or never realized) because the incentives of management / majority owners are not in alignment with minority shareholders.
I've never thought of Argo as a
value trap — don't forget, most companies that are net net type bargains
often have an atrocious business, atrocious management & are continually losing money.
Such an approach, without closer stock - by - stock analysis, could lead to a «
value trap» — a strategy that erroneously favors stocks with low multiples, but which continue to underperform nonetheless,
often because earnings fall short of expectations.