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Comment on Research by Fardeen

Fardeen — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:42:57 +0000

JFR is right. Book value is simply the ogiainrl price of the asset reduced by depreciation or amortization.Depreciation and amortization refer to recognizing that assets have a finite life. Eventually, a machine is going to wear out, break down or simply become obsolete and need replacing, at which time the company must spend some more money.Of course, nobody really knows the future, so the asset is reduced in value (on the books) by a set amount, based on industry, accounting standards and IRS rules.So a widget-making machine that cost $1,000 in 2005 and is being depreciated over ten years, would now have a book value of $400. Its value has declined $100 per year for the past six years.The actual market value of that machine may be effectively zero, or the worth of the scrap metal. But a new replacement may now cost %1,200.However imprecise, book value is generally lower than the value of the business has an active, profit-generating enterprise. That is, that widget making machine should be valuable as part of an organization of widget sales people, other machines, the CEO, the janitor, and so on.Therefore, if a company’s price to book ratio is low, that is a strong indicator that the price is close to bottom. Or it’s an indication that the business is not producing very much revenue in proportion to the assets it’s bought.Companies in this situation may attract corporate raiders a la Gordon Gecko, who plan to get a better Return On Investment from the assets or, at worst, sell them off at a profit.Or the company may get through its hard times in the future and become much more successful.Or it may continue to go downhill and out of business.Nobody knows the future.

Comment on Legends by Ahmad

Ahmad — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:27:03 +0000

The best investment will be in the S P 500, but you need to wait for the big dip when the matekrs fall and retest the big drop they had in March 2009. That dip will happen because commercial real estate is still living in a fantasy. There are far to many stores and malls to support the amount of money Americans are now willing to spend and credit cards are dead. Buy the S P 500 through a mutual fund that will have that title or buy the stock SPY which is the S P 500. The baby boomers are not going to pull out their money because the market is the only chance they have.

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Comment on The Great Mancession Continues: Second Great Contraction to Hit Equities? by nsl

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