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Legendary investors’ approach to market plunges

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on April 6, 2025April 6, 2025
  • Part 1: The Field of Play

Like rainy days, we simply have to prepare ourselves and put up with them. And like rainy days, if we are in the umbrella business, we can take advantage of them.

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My thoughts on the Buffett Indicator – current Market Cap to GDP

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 23, 2025March 23, 2025
  • Part 5: Asset Management

The best cash flow measure is Warren Buffett’s Owner Earnings. If that is increasing faster than GDP, the fair value of companies will increase faster than GDP

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Value investing in the age of the Magnificent Seven, networks, intangibles, AI and all that

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on October 13, 2024October 21, 2024
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

A high ratio of price to book value, a high price-earnings ratio, and a low dividend yield – are in no way inconsistent with a ‘value’ purchase.

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Asset allocation out of step with modern investment management

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 10, 2024March 10, 2024
  • Part 5: Asset Management

We are looking for opportunities and we don’t much care what category they’re in

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How Warren Buffett was influenced by Philip Fisher

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 19, 2023March 21, 2023
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is – almost never

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How Warren Buffett’s approach diverged from Ben Graham

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 12, 2023March 19, 2023
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

Buffett analyzed companies more subjectively than Graham, and he found intrinsic value in companies, such as See’s Candies, that Graham would not have touched.

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Let’s talk about what value really means

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on February 6, 2022February 7, 2022
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

I would rather be vaguely right than precisely wrong

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Misconceptions about Warren Buffett’s approach to investing

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on March 14, 2021March 14, 2021
  • Part 4: Principles of Operation

A high ratio of price to book value, a high price-earnings ratio, and a low dividend yield – are in no way inconsistent with a ‘value’ purchase.

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Heart of stock valuation: subtleties of free cash flow

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on January 24, 2021January 24, 2021
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

If a company’s capital expenditures are simply maintaining the company’s position in its markets, it free cash flow may be unduly high

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Stock valuation in an age of intangible assets

  • by Rodney Smith
  • Posted on November 29, 2020December 1, 2020
  • Part 7: Building and Managing a Portfolio

About forty years ago Buffett experienced a Damascene conversion

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