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Value Investors – Beware The Value Traps
Value investors, consider this your warning… With thousands of stocks down 50% (or more), investors are salivating over the bargains. But for every true deal, there are at least three “value traps” – stocks destined to languish at depressed levels indefinitely. Or worse, get cheaper still.
Think Kmart here. In late 2001, it became the poster child for value investors. They argued it was dirt cheap based on countless metrics like book value and sales. And it was destined for a historic turnaround.
Sure enough, the stock went from the bargain bin to the trash heap, as the company filed bankruptcy in…
5Dec2008 | Investment U | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Little Market That Couldn’t
And people who think they’re laying rail.
Sigh. I tried. Really, I did.
But there was just too much idiocracy to allow the publishing of the first two articles I wrote this week. Originally, they were optimistic, forgiving, and light-hearted. Then I turned on the television.
And started laughing. A frustration-driven, maniacal laughter that rivals that of the Joker from Batman. And not Heath Ledger’s Joker, I’m talking the original – Jack Nicholson style.
Why?
Because I love watching fat cats sweating through their $3,000 suits, all but hyperventilating under the bright lights and cameras surrounding them, as even they struggle to believe the…
19Sep2008 | Oxbury Research | Comments Off | Continued
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