Why isn’t everybody doing it? This post is all about how to survive a bar conversation as a banker these days.I happen to be a banker and my friends happen to know that I am a banker. As the global media has lately been “occupied” by demonstrations of how bankers know sure ways to... [More]

    52 weeks Price Range. This new factor -together with the other momentum factors (price index 12 months and price index 6 months) -in our Value Screener grid indicates a truth about investing that is difficult to understand: the investor should buy into strength and sell in... [More]

We just launched our affiliate program, more details on http://www.value-investing.eu/en/Affiliates. With this new innitiative we want to give you the opportunity to share in the success of our site.In the affiliates area you can log in with your value-investing.eu account or register... [More]

You have spoken and we listened... At the request of subscribers that mainly invest in the US we decided to add two additional ideas to your existing newsletter rather than start a separate newsletter focused on North American companies only. This means with every issue of the Systematic Value... [More]

On the 3rd of December, MFIE Capital will join the VFB for the 'NAIC en fundamentele analyse dag'. This congres will be held in the Aldhem hotel in Grobbendonck. The following speakers will be presenting: [More]

Short selling (also known as shorting or going short) is the practice of selling shares that have been borrowed from a broker with the intention of buying these shares back at a later date to return to the broker. In less technical terms: a short-seller is betting on a stock price to go down. [More]

Tim du Toit just wrote an excellent article about how he found our screeners and why they really help him find the cheapest stocks around the world. I recommend everybody to read his article on the following link: [More]

Piotroski, being an accounting professor, wondered whether he could remove these rotten apples by looking at the companies' books for the last year. He divised a scoring system called the Piotroski F-Score, i.e. a 9 points scoring system based on profitability, funding and operational efficiency. It looks at simple things such as: 'has the company made more profit than the year before?' (+1 point) but also: 'is the company cooking the books by adjusting accruals?' (0 points). By using 9 points he was able to get enough signals to determine whether the company is really improving or not. [More]

Before using the Greenblatt Magic formula, it's important to read the small print to avoid ending up with an incorrect list of stocks. This post gives and example and explains why it's important to use an established stock screener. [More]

  One of the remains of the Graham-Newman era (except Warren Buffet himself ) is Tweedy, Browne Company LLC. Founded in 1920, Buffets favorites’ stockbroker, was located at 52 Wall Street, in the same building as Ben Graham had once worked. Even Walter Schloss was sub-renting some s... [More]