I wanted to post a few links that I found through the people who I follow on Twitter that I found interesting and useful. I tweet and retweet links that I find of value but I don’t always publish them on my blog, so I figured I would start doing so. Tom Murphy interview from HBS If you have read the book The Outsiders than you are familiar with Tom Murphy and the Capital Cities/ABC history. In this interview Tom Murphy provides a lot of good information about the history of Capital Cities and the philosophy and strategy that...
The Ultimate Guide to Stock Valuation Review
Jae Jun over at Old School Value has just released a free e-book on stock valuation methods. The name of the e-book is The Ultimate Guide to Stock Valuation and it covers 8 different techniques to calculate the value of a particular stock. The e-book is a great supplement to the Stock Analyzer product that is available for sale at Old School Value. By the way, I’m a user of the Stock Analyzer which I purchased a couple of years ago. 8 Valuation Techniques covered in the e-book: Net Net Working Capital and Net Current Asset Value Balance Sheet/Tangible asset...
Wealth of Data Provided by Aswath Damodaran
I was reading Aswath Damodaran’s blog about the dark side of numbers and began to look at the updated data sets that he provides for free on his data page site. If you do not know who Aswath Damodaran is, he is a professor of finance at the Stern school of business at NYU. He teaches classes on Corporate Finance and Valuation, and is pretty well known for his knowledge and studies on valuing businesses. As I started to dig into the data that is provided on his page, I was amazed. First of all, you can visit his...
Learn Financial Statement Analysis from KhanAcademy.com
I haven’t been very good a keeping up with posts, but I am going to change that and start to post more regularly during 2013 and beyond. I finally decided to check out KhanAcademy this past weekend. I have heard quite a bit about the site from various locations, and wanted to try it out. To my surprise, the site contained a lot of good information about finance and economics. If you do not know about KhanAcademy, then you can read up more about it on their about page. They have a whole section on Finance and Capital Markets which...
Value Investing Articles to Read – New or Seasoned Investors
Geoff Gannon from Gannon on Investing was recently hired on at GuruFocus.com. Geoff writes the monthly Buffet/Munger and Net-Net Pick Newsletters. Since starting at GuruFocus, he was been writing some great articles on value investing by answering a specific email from a reader. The articles are very good, and cover a range of topics. I wanted to link to the articles that I think should be read. What Would Value Investing 101 Look Like How to get the Most from an Annual Report What’s a No Growth Business Worth? Geoff has written a lot of articles, so take...