´´ March 2013

Friday, March 22, 2013

The Nightmare of any Graham and Dodd Value Investor - Tokyo Steel (JP:5423)

Tokyo Steel came to my attention by a paper of Dylan Grice from Societe General called "Are japanese equities more dead than alive?" from February 2010.

I found the paper an interesting read as I was just starting to invest in Japan. Having said that, unfortunately some statements in the paper are totally off the mark and the quality of the "net-net" analysis, to put it politely, was rather poor. One has to wonder if the author had ever read security analysis and really understood Graham and Dodd's net-net concept.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Benjamin Graham On Net- Net Stocks

"When a common stock sells persistently  below its liquidating value, then either the price is too low or the company should be liquidated. Two corollaries may be deduced from this principle: