Author: William Smead

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer     Dear Clients and Prospective Clients: We know that we have been in an “economic coma” for the last three to four months and almost every business and individual...

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer       Dear Clients and Prospective Clients: At Smead Capital Management we are strong believers in owning high-quality recession-resistant common stocks and holding...

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer     Dear Clients and Prospective Clients: As we start the year in the financial markets it appears that there are three distinct approaches being taken by those who...

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer     Dear Clients and Prospective Clients: Before the next ten years of successful stock market investing gets away from us, we at Smead Capital Management would like...

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Clients and Prospective Clients: Since the bottom of the stock market usually comes at the height of the economic or political calamity of that era I thought it...

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Clients and Prospective Clients: There is an amazing fact in investment analysis. The longer you are right, the greater the amount of intelligence people...

William Smead Chief Executive Officer Chief Investment Officer Dear Clients and Prospective Clients: Andy Grove was the CEO of Intel for many years and was asked what the best advice was that he’d ever been given in business....