The Value Investor

Mike | Professional Investor 💼
📊 Fundamentals over noise
📉 Buying fear • 📈Selling greed
⚖️ Value over speculation
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[The Value Investor @valueover_hype]

Cheap stocks and bargain stocks are not the same thing.

A low P/E, high dividend yield, or 52-week low can signal opportunity, or a value trap.

The real question isn’t “How far has it fallen?”
It’s: “Why is it cheap?”

A bargain is a durable business temporarily misunderstood by the market.
A cheap stock is often just a deteriorating business with a low price tag.

Value investing is not buying what fell the most.
It’s buying future cash flows at a discount.

[The Value Investor @valueover_hype]

The stock looked cheap. The model said so.

But the inputs were guesses dressed up as estimates.

Buffett's lesson: when the range of outcomes is wide, the required discount isn't a preference. It's the whole game.

That's not being conservative. That's being honest about what you don't know.

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@CAronitpereira Yes, well said.

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@kejca Economic progress is best understood as the rising value of human labor over time.

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@BlackEdgeFund In investing and learning alike, mistakes are more expensive than slowness.

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@kejca People take better care of what they own than what they are assigned.

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@CAronitpereira Markets are very good at making exceptional businesses look like obvious investments—and pricing them accordingly.

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@IFB_podcast High profits attract competition. A true moat is what keeps those profits from disappearing.

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@kejca Investing isn't about batting average. It's about making sure your winners are bigger than your losers.

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@kejca Incentives shape behavior. Ownership shapes incentives.

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The best stock Buffett ever bought wasn't cheap.

It was Coca-Cola in 1988, at 15x earnings, when everyone said he overpaid.

$1 billion in. more than $25 billion back.

Fair price. Wonderful business. That's the whole formula.

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@WaldronLewis The return on education varies massively by person. The mistake is treating it like a universal requirement instead of a personal investment.

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@BarrenWuffett1 Most business failures aren’t sudden. They’re delayed consequences of avoided decisions.

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@SJosephBurns The strongest confidence is earned slowly through good habits, good decisions, and honest self-assessment.

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@SJosephBurns The biggest advantage in life isn’t intelligence. It’s the ability to keep learning long after everyone else has stopped.

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@SJosephBurns Reading creates knowledge. Thinking turns knowledge into judgment.

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@BlackEdgeFund Great investing often looks less like genius and more like relentless curiosity.

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@QCompounding The stock certificate is just the wrapper. The business is what matters.

[The Value Investor @valueover_hype]

A $10,000 investment can compound for 30 years.

Or it can be traded 300 times.

Most people obsess over finding the next winner.

Graham worried about surviving their own behavior.

The biggest cost wasn't the stock. It was the activity.

That's not research. That's self-interference.

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@TmarketL Most investing mistakes don’t come from bad ideas, they come from breaking simple rules in the heat of the moment.