Jonathan Goldberg on Value Investing

Venturing for Value

October 20, 2009

Joel Greenblatt, of “Magic Formula” fame, gave a rare interview yesterday on CNBC. The interview had Greenblatt talking about the components of his magic formula as well as recapping its phenomenal performance to date. What Greenblatt stressed multiple times in the interview is that the formula selects many stocks that are currently out of favour with [...]

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Banking on Barnes & Noble (NYSE:BKS)

October 19, 2009

Barnes & Noble (BKS) shares are down about 15% since reporting earnings earlier this month. The drop was due to a negative earnings outlook for fiscal 2010. Many times the market may overreact in cases like this or may not take into account other more positive factors regarding future prospects which would otherwise translate to [...]

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The New Discussion Forum!

October 18, 2009

JonathanGoldberg.com now has a discussion forum where all users can interact on topics of their choosing! Up until now discussion was limited to comments on articles that I have published. In addition to discussions on each article’s page, readers can now start their own topics in the various forum categories offered on the site. The [...]

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Updates and a Secret Project

October 14, 2009

New posts will be coming soon! I’m involved with ongoing developments to the site which, along with other responsibilities, doesn’t leave much time to add new content. In a couple days however I plan on returning stronger than ever with more frequent articles and investment ideas. I am committed to establishing this site as your [...]

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We Have A New Look!

October 12, 2009

It’s been a long night/day but I wanted to make sure the site was down for as little time as possible… we now have a new look! Having big plans for this blog, and due to its rapidly growing user base, I thought it would be good to transfer it over to a more robust [...]

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Help Grow The Community!

October 10, 2009

I’ve just added a whole lot of social networking options to the site in a way that I hope will benefit current and future readers. Please make use of these as they should make your experience as a reader of this site more enjoyable and they will hopefully drive new traffic to the site as [...]

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Calculations of Return (ROA vs ROE vs ROIC)

October 8, 2009

Return on assets (ROA), return on equity (ROE) and return on invested capital (ROIC) are the three most prevalent metrics used to obtain an idea of the returns a company generates, and to compare this return generation to the company’s peers. While important information can be learned from each one of these metrics, there are [...]