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BenGraham's style
- Financial 50.53%
- Consumer Goods 19.74%
- Industrial Goods 13.51%
- Basic Materials 4.37%
- Technology 4.07%
BenGraham's opinions
Jul 22 at 9:06 ET
If, like me, you enjoy a drink once in a while, you've probably sampled at least one of Diageo's product lines. The company owns a portfolio of premium brands including Guinness, Johnny Walker, Captain Morgan, Smirnoff, and Jose' Cuervo. They also own som...
Jul 20 at 10:59 ET
Portfolio Recovery Associates: the post-it note thesis
Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRAA) is essentially in the business of buying discharged receivables, bad debt, for much less than its face value, then attempting to collect on that debt. Right now, in the teeth of the housing bubble collapse and the rece...
Jul 19 at 2:14 ET
GRMN: risk and reward, in qualitative terms
Garmin (GRMN) has plummeted from over $120 a share in October to the low $40's, and currently trades at 12 times last year's earnings, while nearly 18% of the float is sold short. Either something is very wrong with this respected tech innovator, or the s...
Jul 19 at 10:15 ET
The hard thing about a bear market isn't watching my portfolio take successive haircuts. It's regretting that I don't have more capital to deploy. The time to sit in cash isn't when the financial system is melting down--it's during the even more frighteni...
BenGraham's bio
- Risk Group(4.9/10) Moderate
- RankTop 4% (Guru)
- Member SinceJul 08
- Return 1 Month-2.81%
- Return 3 Months-2.38%
- Return YTD-2.38%
- Trades/Month3.19
“Buying dollars for seventy-five cents„
Primarily I take a value-oriented approach, seeking to buy cheap shares of outstanding businesses at any market capitalization, but I'm not too proud to place some of my capital in the hands of master investors: Buffett and Munger, Tom Gaynor, the folks at Leucadia and Brookfield.
BenGraham's major holdings
- % of Portfolio
- Berkshire Hathaway Inc.32.22%
- Diageo plc14.75%
- Markel Corporation.14.68%
- Dawson Geophysical Company4.37%
- Allied Irish Banks p.l.c.3.93%
- Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. De C.V.3.65%
- Leucadia National Corporation.3.51%
- Ceradyne, Inc.3.25%
- Brookfield Asset Management Inc.2.47%
- Sun Hydraulics Corporation2.44%