Mixing Momentum and Value: A Winning Combination?
Combining Value and Momentum Fisher, Shah and Titman (2014) A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check out our Academic Research Recap Category!...
View ArticleValue Investing: Never Buy Expensive Stocks. Period.
We did a recent internal simulation study on the performance of cheap and expensive stocks based on a variety of valuation metrics. We looked at all our favorites from our JPM paper “Analyzing...
View ArticleThe Quantitative Value Investing Philosophy
The Quantitative Value Investing Philosophy Buy the Cheapest, Highest Quality Value Stocks Author: Wesley R. Gray, Ph.D. PDF version Executive Summary: Benjamin Graham, who first established the idea...
View ArticleValue Investing Research: Simple Methods to Improve the Piotroski F-Score
This article was posted on AAII.com. Click here to read the original version. I’ll be speaking at the 2015 AAII Investor Conference this fall; go to www.aaii.com/conference for more details. Executive...
View ArticleValue Investing in a Honda Civic–and proud of it…
Last week I had the privilege of being on CNBC to talk about value investing. A big shout out to Josh Brown, who introduced me to the Halftime Report producer. (video is below). Obviously, being on TV...
View ArticlePrivate Equity Replication with Leveraged Small-Cap Value Stocks
Of the major asset classes, private equity has recently had the best absolute returns. According to Cambridge Associates, the 25-year return on private equity was 13.5%, relative to 9.75% for the...
View ArticleExpensive Junk Stocks are Killing High-Quality Value Stocks, YTD
In general, investors focused on affordable stocks with strong fundamentals have been taken to the cleaners year-to-date. Meanwhile, expensive stocks with poor fundamentals have been rocking! Some...
View ArticleA Live Lesson in Value-Investing: The Energy Meltdown
We sat down and did a quick and dirty analysis of the S&P sector ETFs on a YTD basis and over the past 2 months. Here are the sector portfolios we used for our analysis: XLE Energy XLF Financials...
View ArticleBen Carlson on Active Investing, Value Investing, and Garage Sales
Yesterday we posted a review on Ben’s new book, A Wealth of Common Sense. We reached out to Ben and conducted a follow up Q&A. — Ben, in your book, you talk a lot about simplicity and minimizing...
View ArticleValue Investing Research: O-Score and Distress Risk
Book-to-Market Equity, Distress Risk, and Stock Returns, by Griffin and Lemmon (2002 Journal of Finance) investigate the relationship between value premiums and distress risk. There are two schools of...
View ArticleHow to Make Money in Markets: Understanding Expectation Errors
A new working paper from Gennaili, Ma, and the one-the-only Andrei Shleifer. Expectations and Investment Using micro data from Duke University quarterly survey of Chief Financial Officers, we show that...
View ArticleHigh Dividend Stocks and Value Investing
Barron’s recently ran an article (written by Research Affiliates), which is titled “Get Smart About Picking Dividend-Rich Stocks.” The article highlights that high-quality high-dividend-paying stocks...
View ArticleUsing Profitability as a Factor? Perhaps You Should Think Twice…
Many investors are getting excited about the so-called “profitability factor,” originally posed by Novy-Marx (here is an alternative story) . Larry Swedroe has a high-level piece advocating the concept...
View ArticleBook Review – Competition Demystified: a Radically Simplified Approach to...
We’ve spent a lot of time these days thinking about how to identify economic moat, or a firm’s ability to defend against competitive forces in the marketplace. In our search for better understanding we...
View ArticleHow to Combine Value Investing and Momentum Investing (Part 2/2)
A few weeks ago I wrote an article talking about ways to combine value investing and momentum investing. The high level takeaway from that article was to keep value and momentum as separate exposures....
View ArticleIs Passive Perfect? High Active Share Long-Term Investing Works Better
Patient Capital Outperformance Cremers and Pareek A version of the paper can be found here. Want a summary of academic papers with alpha? Check out our Academic Research Recap Category. Abstract: This...
View ArticleInternational Value Investing: Looks Like a Reasonable Bet
A Value Investing Premium, Everywhere? A rich body of literature has shown that value investing, or buying stocks that are “cheap” based on a variety of valuation metrics, is robust across different...
View ArticleValue Investing: 2014 Value Stock Research Recap
The success and failure of value investing can be boiled down into two components: Buy Cheap Stuff Avoid Behavioral Bias Buy Cheap Stuff Ben Graham outlined the first point in his 1976 article...
View ArticleThe Most Important Decision When Selecting a Value Investing Fund
The Best Investment with the Worst Performance We are huge believers in value investing. I personally started off as a fundamental value guy, spending twenty-plus years trying to pick stocks. I...
View ArticleAre Value Investing and Momentum Investing Robust Anomalies?
Beating a Dead Horse: Value investing and momentum investing work At this stage in our lives we’ve essentially memorized the CRSP/Compustat database. Name an anomaly and we can probably tell you the...
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