Shifting Gears
Recently I have been concentrating pretty heavily on trying to find, assess, and value new companies that I could invest in. I am now going to be shifting gears for a bit to expand my knowledge.
The Manual of Ideas that I posted about a few days ago, and the 32 free books from csinvesting are amazing, I am most of the way through the MoI free publication and the information in it is incredible.
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I am going to be studying specifically from the MoI publication the valuation techniques that they go over, try to learn them, revalue some of the companies I have already valued, and incorporate some of them into my valuation techniques.
When I feel comfortable with the new techniques I will post some of the new valuations here, and see if that changes my assumptions on some of the stocks I have already talked about.
After I finish up with the MoI, I am going to start one of the free books that I downloaded yesterday from csinvesting’s site, so it will probably be a little while before I look for a new company to evaluate.
In the meantime I will still be posting any news I find on companies I own, my random thoughts, and any new, good information I find from websites and blogs.
Dole News
The first article talks about the best and worst boards in the country, Dole came out as one of the worst. The main reason being that Dole, being majority owned by one person, is not a very transparent company.
The second article is another article, from another analyst, saying that if Dole decides to do some kind of asset sale or spin off they could be worth $16 a share, and talks about how the packaged fruit business has amazing margins. I have specifically talked about all of this in my article here. So why am I posting this? Because stated in the article from Dole CEO David DeLorenzo “Our goal would be to accomplish something by the end of this year. We have come across some opportunities that, if we are able to execute, would be good for both the packaged foods business and the commodities business.” That is new news. Emphasis is mine.
For those who are interested in the company, which I am, it looks like we have the rest of this year to accumulate shares before they announce anything on the spin off or asset sale front.
Latest article posted
My latest article, on L.B. Foster, has been posted to Seeking Alpha and can be viewed here, for those who want to follow the discussion in the comments section.