Book Review: The Little Book That Still Beats the Market + MORE

I view myself as a mini Berkshire Hathaway. Every month, I get some cash flow that needs to be invested. My sources of cash flow include money I saved from my day job salary, dividends and some money from side hustles. I used to view my side hustle income as something that is similar to investing in newspapers, but lately the cashflow from it has been similar to what Buffett experienced for 20…

In the latest look at stocks ordered by largest market capitalization, Russell 3000 component Idacorp, Inc. (NYSE: IDA) was identified as having a larger market cap than the smaller end of the S&P 500, for example Apollo Group, Inc. (NASD: APOL), according to The Online Investor. Click here to find out the top S&P 500 components ordered by average analyst rating »

I’ve been worried about a trend for the last three years. With interest rates at all-time lows, investors have gone crazy for stocks with high dividends, since it’s one of the last holdouts of good yields. That, I’ve proposed a few times, might be setting up something akin to a dividend bubble (although I hate using that word)…

The Little Book That Still Beats the Market (2010) by Joel Greenblatt This book is a slightly updated version of the author’s 2005 book, with a new introduction and afterword. The core idea presented in the book is a “magic formula” for investing, which involves finding stocks that are highly ranked based on a combination of earnings yield and return on invested capital…

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I’ve discussed this trade in the past and I don’t want to repeat myself but here I’ll go again. Just look at some of the bigger web/internet companies these days and you’ll see a clear pattern. Companies such as AOL (AOL), Yahoo (YHOO) and Valueclick (VCLK) that all reported disappointing earnings are struggling…