Archive for the 'Market Value' Category

You might have noticed a poll about expected stock market returns here at Fat Pitch Financials last week. This poll also ran on Value Investing News, Gannon On Investing, and several other financial blogs. I setup the poll to help Geoff Gannon conduct a survey that he will be using for his normalized P/E series.

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I ran across an article today on real estate investment trust (REIT) ETFs at Experiments in Finance. Ricemut, the author, had done a good job exploring various REIT indices and electronically traded funds (ETFs) based on those indices.  She is considering increasing her portfolio diversity by adding a REIT ETF.
I currently own a REIT, Hospitality […]

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average broke 11,011.90 today.  The is the first time the average has exceeded 11,000 since June 7, 2001.
What does this mean?  Nothing really, people just like to anchor to round numbers.  As a value investor, it just means that stocks are more expensive to buy.  It also makes finding wide moat stocks […]

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Once a month, I take the time to examine the overall value of the market. It’s important to avoid making large purchasing decisions when the overall market has been bid up to overvalued levels.
As I have mentioned previously, Ben Stein and Phil DeMuth’s website provides a nice set of graphs indicating the market’s valuation relative […]

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I took a few minutes today to visit Ben Stein’s Yes, You Can Time the Market website. I’ve made it a habit to visit this site once a month to get a feel for the value of the market compared to it’s long term trend.
Three out of seven value indicators for the S&P 500 index […]

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I took a few minutes today to visit Ben Stein’s Yes, You Can Time the Market website. I’ve made it a habit to visit this site once a month to get a feel for the value of the market compared to it’s long term trend.
Three out of seven value indicators for the S&P 500 index […]

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