Stock Analysis
The Pharma Stocks We’re Buying Now
Last week I explained why my firm is investing in pharmaceuticals stocks, despite the sector being a favorite punching bag ...
Trump Hates Them – We Love Them
A few weeks after Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, he was asked about pharmaceuticals prices. With ...
Apple vs Coke
Great Stock = Great Company + Great Valuation (Apple vs Coke) Valuation – margin of safety (discount to fair value) ...
Amgen – Biology vs. Chemistry
June 22, 2016 – Excerpt from Q2 2016 letter to IMA’s clients Purchase of Amgen: First we need to explain ...
Purchase of Allergan and Sale of Teva
June 22, 2016 – Excerpt from Q2 2016 letter to IMA’s clients To talk about our purchase of Allergan we ...
Trump. Embracing Volatility We Are
It is a new year, and my crystal ball was supposed to have become magically unfogged by the turn of ...
The Dangers of Dividend Obsession
I originally wrote this piece in 2016, but it’s just as relevant today. “This is a very bad, incoherent piece.” ...
The Persistent Problems of Presidential Elections
The election is over. I am left with two very contradictory feelings. First is one of appreciation — every four ...
Gilead, Buy HIV, Get Hepatitis C for Free
A few months ago I wrote a long article about Gilead that I wanted to title “Gilead: Buy Hepatitis C, ...
Discovering Discovery
Discovery is a media company that owns some of the most popular TV channels – Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet, Oprah ...
Searching for Yield?
This piece was written in the fall of 2016, but many of its core lessons remain true to this today. ...
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son Banks on Exponential Growth
I am about to go out on very thin ice. I am a value investor, but I’ll probably get banned ...
The Values of Value Investing
I organize a conference every summer called VALUEx Vail. Vail is a quaint, beautiful, ritzy ski resort town tucked away ...
Time for an All-Terrain Investment Portfolio
As investors today we feel something like a traveler preparing to drive across an unknown continent. A look in the ...
For Investors, Discovering Truth Takes Time
The Roman philosopher, playwright, statesman and occasional satirist Lucius Annaeus Seneca wasn’t talking about the stock market when he wrote ...
Jos. A. Bank and the Folly of Quantitative Easing
A few years back I wrote an article comparing buy-one-suit-get-three-free sales by Jos. A. Bank to the Federal Reserve’s quantitative ...
Whatever Happened to the Invisible Hand of Capitalism?
I originally wrote this piece in 2016, but it continues to be relevant to this day. When I was growing ...
Gilead Sciences’ Miracle Drug Combination
It was 1986. I was a junior high school student in Soviet Russia. In political information (propaganda) class, the teacher ...
How Investors Should Deal With The Overwhelming Problem Of Understanding The World Economy
January 2016 The article is very long. It is long for two reasons: first, it is was originally a two-part article ...
Downhill Racing Meets Value Investing
I am a skier. When someone says this, you assume he or she is good. Well, I thought I was good. I was not Lindsey Vonn, but I had the technique down. I’d be the fastest person going down the mountain, always waiting for my friends at the bottom
What I Learned from Value Investor Guy Spier
Guy Spier is a tremendous value investor who happens to be a good friend whose company I truly enjoy. He is the most cosmopolitan person I know. He was born in South Africa, spent his childhood in Iran and Israel
