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06.07.06
In Value Stock Investing, Quality Is Job One
 By
Steve Selengut
How much financial bloodshed is necessary before we realize that there is no safe and easy shortcut to investment success?
When do we learn that most of our mistakes involve greed, fear, or unrealistic
expectations about what we own? Eventually, successful investors begin to allocate
assets in a goal directed manner by adopting a realistic Investment Strategy...
an ongoing security selection and monitoring process that is guided by realistic
expectations, selection rules, and management guidelines.
If you are thinking of trying a strategy for a year to see if it works, youīre
due for another smack up alongside the head! Viable Investment Strategies transcend
cycles, not years, and viable Equity Investment Strategies consider three disciplined
activities, the first of which is Selection. Most familiar strategies ignore one
of the others.
How should an investor determine what stocks to buy, and when to buy them? Will
Rogers summed it up: "Only buy stocks that go up. If they arenīt going to go up,
donīt buy them." Many have misread this tongue-in-cheek observation and joined
the "Buy (anything) High" club. Iīve found that the "Buy Value Stocks Low (er)"
approach works better.
A Google search produces a variety of criteria that help to identify Value Stocks,
the standards being low Price to Book Value, low P/E ratios, and other "fundamentals".
But you would be surprised how the definitions can vary, and how few include the
word "Quality".
In the late 90īs, it was rumored that a well-known Value Fund Manager was asked
why he wasnīt buying dot-coms, IPOs, etc. When he said that they didnīt qualify
as Value Stocks, he was told to change his definition... or else.
How do we create a confidence building Stock Selection Universe? Simply operating
on blind faith with one of the common definitions may be too simplistic, particularly
since many of the numbers originate from the subject companies.
Also, some of the figures may be difficult to obtain quickly, and it is essential
not to get bogged down in endless research. Here are five filters you can use
to come up with a selection universe of higher quality companies, and you can
obtain all of the data inexpensively from the same source:
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the Full Article
About the Author:
Steve Selengut has been withProfessional Portfolio Management since 1979. His
is the author of: "The Brainwashing of the American Investor: The Book that Wall
Street Does Not Want YOU to Read", and "A Millionaire's Secret Investment Strategy"
http://www.sancoservices.com
http://www.valuestockbuylistprogram.com
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