Sun Microsystems, The Greatest Quote & The Rise of the Reckless
Sun Microsystems Inc: A Lifetime Lesson in Valuation Market cap of firms trading > 10x price to sales is now +$10 trillion Investors who paid 10x P/S to buy ...
How to Learn About Investing in Stocks: Rule #1
KCR believes bear market strategies today suggest a speculative mania similar to the internet bubble. “Rule #1: Never Lose Money, Rule #2: Never Forget Rule ...
Fast Growing Stocks & Profiting from Patience: Bullish America, Bullish Berkshire & Bearish the Index
Similar to the peak of 2000, people are wondering if Buffett & Munger have lost their touch? As documented by CNBC, Berkshire has underperformed the S&P 500 Index by ...
Buy or Sell Tesla Stock? A Quick Answer to a Behavioral Question
Should You Sell Tesla Stock & The High Cost of “Anchoring” Anchoring, or the act of placing too much emphasis on an arbitrary number is a well understood human ...
Warren Buffett’s Market Cap to GDP
"Be FEARFUL when others are GREEDY" –Warren Buffett: The chart below is Buffett’s favorite broad market valuation tool – Market Cap/GDP – a Kailash topic discussed here When stocks ...
Negative Cash Flow & The Problem with Paying High Prices for Systematic Dilution
Broken Business Models Our recent paper on Small Caps, The Low Price of High Quality, identified the market’s highest quality firms trading at reasonable valuations That work also documented ...
An Investment Strategy for High Quality Firms
If you are saving for retirement, have some investment goals and are looking to buy stocks we believe this chart is for you. Our last two newsletters documented the ...
What You Need Has Never Been Cheaper vs. What You Want
What You Need Has Never Been Cheaper vs. What You Want: The chart below shows the ratio of Consumer Staples to Consumer Discretionary stocks is now LOWER than at ...
Investing in Staples Made Simple
The Supremacy of Staples: A Triumph of the Mundane: The market is awash in stories about the wonders of day trading (h/t Ramp Capital tweet) egging the inexperienced to ...
Multiple Expansion and Stock Performance: A Tale of Two Markets
Multiple Expansion: A Tale of Two Markets The NAVY BLUE BARS show the price-to-sales ratio of stocks in 2010 by decile, from least to most expensive The LIGHT BLUE ...
Performance of Loss Making Stocks
Losing Money is No Way to Make Money: In our recent papers on quality investing and income investing, Kailash is pounding the table advocating investors avoid the IPO/Tech mania and ...
High Quality and Income Stocks at Low Prices
High Quality & Income at Low Prices: Index mania has sent money into ever larger and more expensive companies The slides below show that our S&P 500, Russell 1000 and ...