“What is investing if it is not trying to find value?” Business value or intrinsic value is not the same as market capitalization of a company. Market capitalization of a publicly traded company is the value assigned by the stock market at any given time which is influenced by various things from market participants’ view [...]

What is a stock market? It is simply a highly regulated medium for buying and selling shares of publicly traded companies. It is a marketplace of shares of companies where demand, supply, and freely floating market mechanism rule the game. It is exciting until you find out that losing your capital in the stock market [...]

Is investing successfully a difficult thing to do? Or is it difficult because people make it more difficult than it should be. Let’s revisit the definition of investing by Benjamin Graham, The Father of Value Investing:  “An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis promises safety of principal and adequate return. Operations not meeting these [...]

This was published originally at old Sovestor.com website on 09/08/2007

When there is blood on the street (read “Wall Street”), there are always professional vulture investors (the savvy hedge funds, private investment companies, investors, speculators) who are watching and moving fast to grab distressed assets. Capitalizing on market meltdown is [...]