Waiting for Great Companies

I always have a running list of great companies I would buy if they were priced a whole lot differently- my wish list you might say. Being value investors we all spend a lot of time trying to differentiate between garbage and gold. Usually when I am looking at a company it has hit my screens because it is suddenly cheap – my job is to find out if there is a good reason or a bad reason for this, and invest accordingly. This activity can take some time, days, sometimes even weeks. Some opportunities simply don’t last that long though, they can dry up in a matter of a day, an hour or even mere minutes.
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Does Stock Price Matter?

Does the market price of a stock play a significant role in your decision to buy, or not buy shares in a company? For me the answer to this question has always been no, I look at rate of return and give almost no credence to stock price. If I invest $100K in a company it is of little interest to me if I get 5 stock or 500 stock in this company as long as I see a return on my initial investment. I have a good friend who will only buy a stock if it is trading for under $5. Are there advantages to his system?
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Value Investing Four Filters

I am always looking for good high quality companies that are trading at a discount. Finding these companies is both challenging and time consuming. Finding cheap companies isn’t hard- finding cheap good ones is. A professional investor will spend the entire day researching company after company trying to find something the market has overlooked. As an amateur investor I don’t have that kind of time so I needed a method to reduce the number of companies I examine every week to a small handful that merit my further investigations.
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