Here’s what Berkshire Hathaway’s Balance Sheet looked like in 1964 as Buffett Took Control.
Warren Buffett’s 2014 letter to shareholders tells the amazing story of Buffett buying Berkshire Hathaway. At the time…
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Breaking Down a Company’s Asset Growth With Analysis of the Changes in its Balance Sheet
Generally, increasing assets are a sign that the company is growing, but everyone can relate to the fact…
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What Can Shiller’s CAPE Ratio Tell Us About Future Stock Returns?
How can you tell if stocks are expensive? Of course there is a thousand different ratios, indicators and…
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How to Analyze a Company by Its Inventory
The basic operation of a business is centered around 2 steps: Build a Product Sell that product…
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What Stocks Would Ben Graham Buy Today? Q1 2017
It’s a new year, and a new quarter! That means it is time to run our Ben Graham…
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How Much is TOO Much to Pay for a Wonderful Company? A Look at a Current Great Business, and Buffett’s Past Purchases
One of the more famous investment quotes, which represents a mindset that has created one of America’s most…
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How Do You Beat Your Benchmarks Over the Long Haul? – A look at Dimensional Fund Advisors
This week we have been looking at one of the fastest growing companies in asset management –…
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Chart of the Week: What Could You Buy With $200 Billion?
Recently, Facebook’s market cap has surpassed $200 billion dollars. That got me thinking…. What other companies could…
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Quote of the Week: Why are Consistent Earnings so Important?
All of a sudden it is pretty apparent that the stock market has moved a long ways…
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Throwback Thursday: A look at Buffett’s 1988 investment in Coca-Cola
Buffett began purchasing Coca-Cola (Ticker: KO) shares in 1988. Today, Buffett has over $13 billion in…
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Evaluating Financial Statements – Statement of Shareholder Equity
We have previously discussed the more well known financial statements; the balance sheet, income statement and statement of…
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Financial Friday: Leverage – What is it? How is it Calculated? And How it Destroyed One of America’s Largest Businesses in Days.
Leverage has been responsible for some of the most glamorous gains and disastrous declines in the financial world….
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Return on Equity (ROE) Tells More than EPS Growth
As another earnings season rolls around and companies EPS (Earnings Per Share) numbers are making headlines, here’s why…