Author: Saj Karsan

In a previous post, we discussed the potential pitfalls of investing in companies with poor corporate governance structures. But how can an investor protect himself? There are two basic ways. First of all, the investor can...

Sometimes a company will appear cheap, but whether the investor will ever see the benefit of the company’s success is another story. If management controls the company, or shareholders are not well represented on the...

When reading through the press releases that most companies issue to announce their quarterly financial results, one can get a pretty good idea of which companies are pleased with their earnings and which are not. Unfortunately,...

The mainstream finance industry equates price volatility with risk and believes the market to be efficient. That is, prices of stocks are fairly priced, and therefore the only way to generate higher returns is by taking more...

As the chief investment officer at Fremont Investment Advisors, Nancy Tengler employed the value approach she describes in her book, New Era Value Investing.While RDY and RSPR (described in the previous two chapters) are great...

As the chief investment officer at Fremont Investment Advisors, Nancy Tengler employed the value approach she describes in her book, New Era Value Investing.Though Tengler claims the method described in Chapter 3 works, it is...

Just nine months ago, we discussed Adams Golf (ADGF) as a potential value investment due to the severe discount at which the company was trading relative to its net current assets. Since that time, the stock has rallied over...

Investors who conduct stock research online (e.g. readers of this site, or those who use www.sec.gov to access annual reports, as opposed to waiting for their snail mail copies) have likely spent at least some time in a stock...