Video Interview: Apple – Don’t Buy! Jackson Hewitt – Buy and my book
In this fund video interview with TheStreet.com I talk about why I don’t think Apple (AAPL) is a buy, why I love Jackson Hewitt (JTX) and my book Active Value Investing.
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Uncle Al
I like Alan Greenspan, despite writing a critical article about him. It is hard not to admire the guy. He has this avuncular quality about him, he is kind of like your uncle who is super smart, kind and buys you a bicycle on Hanukkah. I’ve been reading his book and I can safely say it [...]
What we’ve learned…
If we learned anything over the last couple of months it is that we don’t know the second and third derivative of how badly things will play out. We knew that the housing market was in the bubble, what we did not know was how its deflation will play out, i.e. commercial market freeze. We did not know [...]
Jackson Hewitt an Opportunity?
Soon after we purchased Jackson Hewitt (JTX), offices of one of their franchisees was raided by the U.S. Justice Department; the franchisee was accused of falsifying tax returns for thousands of taxpayers. JTX stock collapsed on that news. The risk was that it was a widespread practice and JTX management was complicit with the franchisee [...]
Time to Be Downbeat About Wal-Mart?
When I bought Wal-Mart (WMT) a bit more than a year ago, I wrote an article for Financial Times where I laid out my theses: Wal-Mart currently appeals mostly to lower income demographics, and this is where things will change the most… Cleaner, better, more appropriately merchandised stores will attract new customers… encourage shoppers to… [...]
My Book is out!
After a year and half, 2,000 hours of staring at my laptop, and much receded hairline, my book Active Value Investing (AVI): Making Money in Range-Bound Markets is done! Last year and a half is a blur; it feels like I came out of a prolonged coma – family celebrations, kids growing up are just vague recollections. Like a third child (I have two ‘real’ adorable kids) I nourished the book, carefully choosing every word that went into it, and there were 75,000 of those. And akin sending your child to the real world, I have a sense of pride, and at the same time I am nervous as I want the rest of the world to like it and more importantly to benefit from it.
Let me attempt briefly tell you about the AVI, for in depth take on the book, here is a link to book’s preface. AVI has two parts: in part one, I make the argument that there is a very high probability, that over next dozen years or so the U.S. stock market will be dancing a similar foxtrot that it danced since 2000: it will take investors on a wild roller coaster ride (it will go up, down, and sideways), but at the end of this exciting journey it will not be far from where it is today. The market will be range-bound.