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Ferruccio

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Reviewed in Italy 🇮🇹 on July 11, 2022

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An acceptable introduction to value investing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2023

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The author provides a clear definition of the value investing approach along with plenty of anecdotes on his exploits in the process of detecting value stocks and global investing.
I would have appreciated a more "workbook-like" appoach with excersises and multiple questions to get the reader to develop his own knack for determining intrinsic value of a stock and quickly calculating P/E ratio, book value, earnings yield so as to develop his own skills. This is not the case yet it is still a useful book for all.
Oh and the valuable axiom: "Time in the market, not market timing is what counts".

HelsinkiStationChief

The Little Book of Bygone Investing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 21, 2021

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I liked the first few chapters of this book. It featured a well written foreword by Roger Lowenstein and hit home the logic of value investing. Christopher Browne writes well and I zipped through the book in three hours.

However, reading about investors like Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffet and Walter Schloss buying companies at unbelievably low multiples feels like a bygone era.

I believe the reason value investing worked so well in the past is because it was so intensive.

Before computers, and even calculators, value investors were toiling over balance sheets and running numbers to find the cheapest stocks they could. It was grunt work that required an advanced financial skill set with scarce information that wasn’t available to many people in the mid-20th century.

With the proliferation of computers and access to Fidelity’s financial screens, that grunt work is much simpler. And because it’s simpler, more people can do it. And the more people do it, the harder it becomes to find those deep value buys that are touted throughout the book.

At the end of the book, Browne admits this point and says the process has to remain dynamic, abandoning metrics like book value and looking at acquisition values instead.

I think more of the book should have been devoted to explaining those methods.

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Zaccone

Good intro to value investing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 16, 2021

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However some of the content is a bit dated / most tech companies have negative eps but would make great value plays

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Graham of London

Useful summary

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 1, 2012

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This is a useful easy-to-read summary of the key principles most value style investors talk about. It pulls together ideas mentioned in other books on the subject and presents them in simple undertandable way. The last few chapters actually talk about items found on the balance sheet and profit and loss account statements which I found particularly interesting. Obviously the proof of the book's worth will as always with these investor self-help books be to have the discipline to apply it in practice.

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Lenny

I’m not recommend it for you

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 3, 2017

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I don’t see any practicality, it’s just stories of the past. I’m not recommend it for you

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Lung sui shing

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 27, 2015

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Good for absolute beginers only

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