World wide the Warren Buffett strategy is known for being very successful in stock picks. His value investment philosophy is from the Benjamin Graham school, and in 1965 he invested $10000 in Berkshire Hathaway. Today this investment is worth nearly $30 million! Had he taken the same amount of money and invested it in the “S & P 500″ it would have grown, however the same investment would only be worth around $500 000.
This legendary investor who has his head screwed on right has become a myth in his lifetime. He is something of a bargain hunter and he pursues bargains as part of his value investment philosophy, which sees him buying stocks that other investors overlook. It is as though he can see something in under-valued stocks that other people don’t see.
Securities with low intrinsic worth are grist for his mill. He identifies these and predicts their worth by analyzing the company’s fundamentals. The majority of buyers are unable to predict this and Warren Buffett seems to know that the market will eventually favor his investments.
Supply and demand do not concern him in the least, although traditionally this is what controls a market. Warren Buffett wants long term returns not capital gains. His famous quote “In the short term the market is a popularity contest; in he long term it is a weighing machine” says it all.
He looks at stocks in terms of the company’s overall potential to make money. Because he seeks long term investment value, capital gain is of no consequence, and this is what makes value investing so different to other methods of investing.
When he looks at an investment opportunity and evaluates the relationship between its stock price against the level of the company’s excellence. He also asks himself certain questions, such as performance regarding return on equity, if the company avoids taking on excessive debt (we all know how he feels about debt), how long the company has been public and whether or not it relies on a commodity.
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