Benjamin Graham often wrote of distinguishing the difference between investing and speculating. Fannie Mae, in its current state, sits in the speculating bucket. Investing has to fun though, sometimes it is interesting to window shop, so lets look.
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This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net May 15 2009.
This week we are reviewing Bristol-Myers Squibb as a possible stock acquisition. To do so we will use the Buffett four filters we discussed in a previous article.
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Over Christmas I analyzed Ford’s financial statements from the previous years and decided that the current $1.60 / share it was trading at was under its intrinsic value. A stock price I had anticipated some time earlier see the post. I invested and set a target sell price of $4.50-5.50. The stock has risen impressively since then and I have been patiently awaiting the $5.50 target.
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On Friday February 7th Puget Power announced the closing of the sale of its core business at $30 per share. Regular readers of my blog will recall that I recommended a purchase of PSD in November of last year at $18. If one includes the $.25 dividend payment from Jan 16th, and the pro rata dividend of $.04 this transaction returns $30.29, or a profit of an impressive 68%.
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Vancouver is currently preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics. As part of the Olympics Vancouver is constructing a residences for athletes. The city had planned to see the residence sold off as condos after the Olympics for a healthy profit. With the credit crunch and the downturn in housing in Vancouver though the story is changing. To boil it down, basically Fortress Investment Group was loaning the money to complete the work on the site and has now stepped back and stopped funding the project, leaving the city of Vancouver in the lurch.
Wherever there is money it is worthwhile to ask; is there a opportunity here for investors?
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Originally published on: Div-Net
After much searching I found a stock screener for Canadian stocks (more on this in another post). I was able to assemble a Graham style screener with the following criteria:
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