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Selling Pacer International and Nabors Industries

In the 90’s, everyone and their mother talked about investing in the stock market and technology stocks. Again, in the 90’s and the turn of the millennium, taxi drivers and barbers started talking about flipping houses for a living. Now, the talk is the high price of oil and how to profit from it. I [...]

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United Healthgroup added to Garcia Value Fund

Very few industries have been beaten down like the Health Care industry. The DJ Health Care Providers Index is
down 21% in the past 6 months and
down 15% in the past 3 months. There are various reasons the health care industry has sold off, but I think this is a classic example of an [...]

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Value Investing Is Simple But Not Easy

One often hears the Oracle of Omaha (Warren Buffett) say “value investing is simple but not easy”. The million dollar question is….is it true?
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Tracking David Dreman

One of my favorite things to do is follow the Gurus (Buffett,Greenblatt,etc). With the internet around, it is now easier than ever to see which stocks they are buying.
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Garcia Value Fund Performance For February 2008

The Garcia Value Fund underperformed the S&P 500 by less than 1%. Again, these numbers mean nothing as the fund is still relatively new. I will start paying attention once the fund is 3-5 years old.
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Adding Office Depot To Garcia Value Fund

I have been looking at Office Depot (ODP) for quite a while, but didn’t quite get to digging into the numbers, until now. The stock is down more than 50% from its 52 Week High of $37.I believe Office Depot is a case of investor overreaction.
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January Performance For Garcia Value Fund

I am proud to report the Garcia Value Fund has excelled in a volatile market. For the trailing month, the Garcia Value Fund had a return of 3.63%.On the other hand,the S&P 500 Index had a loss of 6%, thus resulting in the fund outperforming the index by 9.63%.
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