The Best Companies of the Retail Industry – August 2015
While ModernGraham supports the bottom-up approach to investing, many investors do utilize the top-down method, whereby an industry is selected before the company itself. With that in mind, this article will take a brief look at the best companies of the retail industry, selecting the most promising investment opportunities within the industry, and giving a broad look into the industry as a whole.
21 Companies in the Spotlight This Week – 5/9/15
We evaluated 21 different companies this week to determine whether they are suitable for Defensive Investors, those unwilling to do substantial research, or Enterprising Investors, those who are willing to do such research. We also put each company through the ModernGraham valuation model based on Benjamin Graham’s value investing formulas in order to determine an intrinsic value for each. Here’s a summary of the ModernGraham Valuations.
Dollar Tree Inc. Quarterly Valuation – May 2015 $DLTR
Dollar Tree should satisfy the Enterprising Investor, but not the Defensive Investor. The Defensive Investor is concerned with the lack of dividends along with the high PEmg and PB ratios while the Enterprising Investor is only concerned by the lack of dividends.