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Is it worth reading Security Analysis?

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For decades, Security Analysis by Ben Graham and David Dodd has been considered a must read and with good reason. The book is widely considered a classic due to in large part for introducing a framework that is considered  businesslike opposed to the speculative nature that Wall Street was used to at the time. The [...]

Value Investing Always Bounces Back

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The week’s news has to be crude’s run up to $135/barrel. The problem with
value investing news is sometimes good stories fall too quickly as other stories of less quality get submitted. Eventually, the few of us that do vote for stories do not vote up the high quality ones and thus an excellent story [...]

4 Underrated Value Investing Books

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A quick search on Amazon.com for the term “
Value Investing” turned up 2,970 books. At the top of the list, the usual suspects appear:

Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond- Bruce Greenwald
The Little Book Of Value Investing-Christopher Browne
The Intelligent Investor- Benjamin Graham

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Vineyard National Bancorp (VNBC)

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It has been a while since I done security analysis on stocks with a market cap this size. Currently Mr.Market is valuing Vineyard National Bancorp “Vineyard” at less than 100 million. The million dollar question is whether Vineyard warrants this type of valuation. As Buffett has quoted before “Price is what you pay, Value is [...]