Blind Valuation: What Would You Pay? – ValueWalk Premium
05Jun2015

Blind Valuation: What Would You Pay?

Benjamin Graham, the godfather of value investing believed that to value a company all you needed to do is study the figures. Graham made no effort to value intrinsic, company-specific value-adding qualities.

All he was looking for was value; no matter where it came from.

“...Ben would like to take companies that appeared close in the alphabet and compare them statiscally. I remember specifically Coca-Cola and Colgate Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE:CL) where he showed statistically how much cheaper Colgate . . .

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