In his latest column for Forbes.com, Validea CEO John Reese says that, despite the pounding Apple’s shares have taken in recent months, investors shouldn’t give up on the tech titan. “Slowing sales growth, two straight quarters of declining earnings, and questions about the company’s post-Steve Jobs leadership have all sent investors heading for the hills, […]
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Lynch And Buffett Form Winning Team North Of Border
March 27, 2013 
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Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch are two of history’s most successful investors. And in a Number Cruncher column for Canada’s Globe and Mail, John Heinzl says combining their strategies has led to some big returns. Using data from Validea Canada, Globe and Mail last year set up a portfolio of stocks that met both Validea’s […]
Read moreThe Lynch Approach: Growth, at a Reasonable Price
January 4, 2013 0 Comments
Every other issue of The Validea Hot List newsletter examines in detail one of John Reese’s computerized Guru Strategies. This latest issue looks at the Peter Lynch-inspired strategy, which has averaged annual returns of 6.6% since its July 2003 inception vs. 4.1% for the S&P 500 (through Jan. 3). Below is an excerpt from the newsletter, along […]
Read moreLarge-Caps Lynch and O’Shaughnessy Might Like
December 14, 2012 0 Comments
In his latest RealMoney column, Validea CEO John Reese looks at a trio of large-cap stocks that look attractive as 2012 winds down. “Year to date, we’ve seen a robust 13% rise in the large-cap index S&P 500,” Reese writes. “I am not a soothsayer, and I do not profess to know how well large-caps […]
Read moreLynch & Buffett Strategies Winning North of the Border
October 5, 2012 1 Comment
This year hasn’t been a great one for Canadian stocks, but Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett have been having quite a bit of success north of the border — at least, their strategies have. In his Number Cruncher column, John Heinzl of Canada’s Globe and Mail has been tracking a 9-stock portfolio of stocks that […]
Read moreThe Benefits of Turnaround Firms
September 11, 2012 0 Comments
If you are looking for places to invest as the current bull market ages, try turnaround stocks, says The Wall Street Journal’s Jack Hough. Hough says that several turnaround firms — those that have had big problems and are now trading on the cheap — have had big years in 2012. Among them are several […]
Read moreFisher: Don’t Just Buy What You Know
August 10, 2012 0 Comments
In his latest Forbes column, Kenneth Fisher says that investors should not, as Peter Lynch once advised, “buy what you know”. Lynch said that investors could get a leg up on Wall Street by paying attention to what products they liked; if a company made a product they thought was a good one, they could […]
Read moreThe Lynch Strategy: Still Beating the Market Two Decades after Magellan
May 25, 2012 0 Comments
Every other issue of The Validea Hot List newsletter examines in detail one of John Reese’s computerized Guru Strategies. This latest issue looks at the Peter Lynch-inspired strategy, which has averaged annual returns of 5.3% since its July 2003 inception vs. 3.1% for the S&P 500. Below is an excerpt from the newsletter, along with several top-scoring […]
Read moreHow to Learn from History’s Best Investors
May 17, 2012 0 Comments
In an interview with Wall Street Week’s Al Berkeley, Validea CEO and author of The Guru Investor John Reese discusses his guru-based investment approach. Reese also discusses some of the stocks that his Peter Lynch- and Warren Buffett-inspired strategies are high on right now (part 2 available to subscribers only). Among the picks: General Dynamics […]
Read moreLynch & Buffett: A Dynamic Duo?
March 30, 2012 0 Comments
Legendary investors Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett have each posted exceptional returns on their own, so what would happen if they teamed up to pick stocks? In a “Number Cruncher” column for Canada’s Globe and Mail, John Heinzl uses Validea Canada’s guru-based screeners to try to answer that question. In January, Globe and Mail put […]
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