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The Business of Value Investing SIX ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO BUYING COMPANIES LIKE WARREN BUFFETT Sham Gad John Wiley & Sons, I ...

Copyright © 2009 by Sham Gad. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simu ...

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vii Contents Acknowledgments xiii Introduction xvii Chapter 1 Invest in the Business, Buy the Stock 1 Stock Prices Are More Nois ...

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Contents ix Chapter 6 Effective Business Valuation The Third Element 91 Value Investing 101: Margin of Safety 92 Value Investing ...

x Contents Ignorance Can Be Bliss 158 The Benefits of a Buy-and-Hold Approach 162 Conservative Tests of Safety a Must 171 Key Ta ...

Contents xi Chapter 3 The Six Elements of Intelligent Investing All Investing Is Value Investing Learn from the Masters Framewo ...

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xiii Acknowledgments As I began writing this book, it very quickly became evident that this project would not be possible withou ...

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A special thanks to Peter Shedd, the MBA director at the time, who gave me his and the university’s full support to make the vis ...

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xvii Introduction This is a book about how to think about investing intelligently. Due to the unrivaled success of investor Warr ...