Author: info@buyingvalue.com

I very much dislike intangible assets, the growth or continued presence of them on a balance sheet always throws up a red flag for me. Maybe it is due to my value investor perspective but giving financial credence to a resource...

After what has been a fairly successful start on blogger we are moving to a new hosting service at www.buyingvalue.com I hope you will all follow us there and enjoy the new services and features...

As readers of my blog know I have been looking for some time for a good Canadian screener, specifically a screener that allows for Graham style analysis. After finding one earlier this year that ran as an application I set my...

Every once in a while it is good to put things in perspective. Here is a bit of a laugh but there is a good point in there...

If you had $100 to invest in the DOW in 1928 you would have $3128.52 today- what a deal right? Wrong, let me tell you why.I’ve been to several financial offices where they proudly display the graph of the DOW since 1928....

This article originally appeared on The Div-Net Feb8 2009Much has been written about the success of Warren Buffett, but little on his failures. I think a great deal can be learned by analyzing the failures of successful people....

Before starting I should say that I am not a fan of market timing, I think trying to plot an irrational event rationally is next to impossible. However, having said that, if you have the choice between two options both with...

On Friday February 7th Puget Power announced the closing of the sale of its core business at $30 per share. Regular readers of my blog will recall that I recommended a purchase of PSD in November of last year at $18. If one...

I haven’t had a broker for a few years now but every once in a while someone asks me how to pick a good one and I dig out this story from my own experiences.In the early days of the turn of the century I had a broker who...