The saying goes : you can fool some people all the time but you can't fool all the people all the time. With this idea as a backdrop, I was appalled when I saw this piece of news article.
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Beat The Herd Mentality To Improve Investment Results
Beating the markets is beating the herd mentality.T he intelligent investor is a great book to start reading for amateur investors. The book is rich in quantitative data but readers may find it hard to swallow as the language is written with a terse archaic style. But what the book does not touch on is how to be an emotionally intelligent investor and beat the herd mentality. While numbers are easy to handle, one's emotions can prove to be an inconquerable mountain like Everest. And for most of us, this may very well be the final obstacle to being an investor great.
Descendants Of The Herd
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Let us do a mathematical experiment here. A company earns $10 per share and out of that, pays a dividend of $8 per share. If one were to apply a 20 times multiple in the dividend stream going forward , the value of the dividends in perpetuity is $160. So we could make the argument here that the company is worth at least $160 if the dividend stream is fairly consistent. The $2 per share in retained earnings could lead to some real growth in the future. So if an investor decides to pay $100 per share for that company, that would be considered a good buy from an investor's stand point.
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Chart Of Thalassa Holdings
They say that time is the friend of a great business but the enemy of the mediocre. While that statement has a pervading ring of truth to it, the sagely quote excludes commodity businesses with a high probability of self sustenance and mean reversion into the future. Can I tweak that to say time is the friend of those companies that can survive an industry downturn?
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Ezra Holdings
Ezra Holdings! When inspiration hits me and the juices flow and I feel an explosion of information welling up, my outlet is to share and tell. It may be amongst good friends and confidantes or it could be a humble blog as such. And with a feeling of perkiness, I entitled this article Ezra Ezra, No Longer The Bella Of Dreams. I was reading the newspapers recently. The headlines. " Winding Up Application Filed Against Ezra" . Another headline . "Ezra Receives A Statutory Demand From Forland for $25.5 Million". The thing is this. Before it even makes the headlines, the smart investors have already scooted off elsewhere, leaving thousands of ignorant investors in a trail of financial destruction.
Many retail investors have been bruised financially as a result. In investing , being formally educated is wise and cheap. Being an ignoramus is bloody expensive. Let not your negative experiences be your tuition fee. Let the prominent investors of our time guide you! Read their books. Digest them! Assimilate them! Educate yourself through the eyes of another I say to you. And you shall surely find your way! Slowly but surely!