The Kabuki narrative
Regular readers of Greenbackd know that I’m no fan of “the narrative,” which is the story an investor concocts to explain the various pieces of data the investor gathers about a potential investment....
View ArticleBack-testing the performance of net current asset value against net net...
Jae Jun at Old School Value has a great post, NCAV NNWC Screen Strategy Backtest, comparing the performance of net current asset value stocks (NCAV) and “net net working capital” (NNWC) stocks over the...
View ArticleNet current asset value and net net working capital back-test refined
Jae Jun at Old School Value has updated his great post back-testing the performance of net current asset value (NCAV) against “net net working capital” (NNWC) by refining the back-test (see NCAV NNWC...
View ArticleCheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index results
Jon Heller of the superb Cheap Stocks, one of the inspirations for this site, has published the results of his two year net net index experiment in Winding Down The Cheap Stocks 21 Net Net Index;...
View ArticleMike Burry’s Silicon Investor “Value Investing” thread
Yesterday I ran a post on Dr. Michael Burry, the value investor who was one of the first, if not the first, to figure out how to short sub-prime mortgage bonds in his fund, Scion Capital. In The Big...
View ArticleGreenbackd Endangered Species, Activism and Liquidation Report
I’m considering launching a subscription-only service aimed at identifying stocks similar to those in the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species reports. Like the old Wall Street’s Endangered Species...
View ArticleTech stock activism
The Wall Street Journal has an article, Activist Holders Eye Top Managers for Boards, discussing the trend for executives running public companies to switch to activist boardroom roles where they can...
View ArticleOozing Alpha
Farukh Farooqi, long-time supporter of Greenbackd, founder of Marquis Research, a special situations research and advisory firm (for more on Farukh and his methodology see The Deal in the article...
View ArticleHAWK rig market values
Further to my Seahawk Drilling, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAWK) liquidation value post, I set out below the slightly more optimistic valuation of HAWK’s rigs if they can be sold as operating rigs. Here is a guide...
View ArticleDonald G. Smith on price-to-tangible book value
The Fall 2010 edition of the Graham and Doddsville Newsletter, Columbia Business School‘s student-led investment newsletter co-sponsored by the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing and the...
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