Ben Graham

Warren Buffett, the legendary investor, has often emphasized the importance of a “margin of safety” in investment. This principle, as outlined by Buffett, is a key factor in achieving success in the stock market. What Happened: Buffett’s concept of a margin of safety is explained...

Earnings season starts anew this week and soon we will be buried in quarterly reports on the operations and finances of publicly traded companies. It is time to break out all our watch lists and compare the estimates to recent results and track which companies have been posting positive and...

Pope Brar is a money manager based on the West Coast who has spent a considerable amount of time analyzing the success (as well as the failure) of some of the greatest investors. Brar has carefully examined the records of such legendary investors as Warren Buffett, Seth Klarman and others to...

The best performing stocks in the S&P 500 in the past year have been Netflix, Micron Technology, Best Buy, Delta Airlines and Constellation Brands. The interesting thing about these stocks is that as investors came into the year, they were not on anyone's list of top performers or even...

We are now in the heart of the holiday gift buying season and finding that perfect gift for the investors on your list can be daunting. Looking through the business and finance section of a bookstore like Barnes & Noble or browsing the section on Amazon can be bewildering at times. The...

Last week, we saw the annual shopping catastrophe known as Black Friday. People got up from their holiday dinners or arose at 2:00 am on Friday to rush out to stores to buy stuff at bargain prices. The search for bargains is so intense that each year violence is reported as shoppers contend for...

The question of value investing's lack of broad appeal has been visited by many over the years. The typical investor or trader continues to search for some sort of Holy Grail that unlocks the secrets of instantaneous stock market wealth. Many people have searched for it over the years and very...

In The Intelligent Investor, Ben Graham defines the central concept of investing as Margin of Safety. It is far more important to consider the question of 'what can I lose' than worrying about how much you can make when buying stocks. That is, of course, the direct and exact opposite of how most...

When investors approach the markets, they tend to think they are going to find some magic button that unlocks the secrets of trading and investing success. They study chart patterns and dream of being Stevie Cohen or Paul Tudor Jones. They want to find success trading the short-term market...

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) has many attributes that should make it attractive to value investors while also offering the potential for growth due to an expanding international footprint. The company might not meet the strict definition of a value stock in the tradition of Ben Graham, but as an...