Gauging Corporate Financial Results II: Investment Analysis

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Monday, November 23, 2020

Stock-Based Compensation

This is an excellent thread about Stock-Based Compensation and its true costs.

Value Investing Article in the FT

I strongly recommend this article in the Financial Times on value investing and the significance of intangible assets by @mjmauboussin

Why value investing still works in markets

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GCFR2

Gauging Corporate Financial Results returned in 2020 after a nine-year break. The original blog was active and, given its dry subject matter, modestly successful between 2006 and 2011.

Ownership of GCFR's first custom domain name, financial-gauges.com, lapsed some years ago. Replacing it with GCFR2.com, allows a fresh start, er, restart. The old posts can still be found, albeit now with broken links and missing pictures, at http://financial-analysis.blogspot.com/

The blog posts here generally fall into one of three categories. 1. Look-Aheads that convey my expectations for a company's next quarterly earnings report; 2. Earnings Reports that compare the company's actual results to my expectations; and, 3. GCFR's unique Gauge Analyses for evaluating a company.

During the intermezzo, the number of GCFR gauges in each Gauge Analysis expanded from four to seven, and a new scoring system was put in place. Attentive readers may recognize traces of the original analysis methodology in the new posts.

New Posts on Great Financial Blogs

GuruFocus

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Valuentum

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Musings on Markets

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Belle Curve

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Engineering Dividends

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Essays - Benedict Evans

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Clark Street Value

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Mad Fientist

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Crossing Wall Street

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Important information

This blog is for educational purposes only. The content is not investment advice, and the posts are neither offers nor solicitations to buy or sell any security. The author may have a long or short position in the stocks mentioned or may open or close such a position in the future. Specific positions will not be disclosed.

While good-faith efforts are made to get information from reliable sources and to provide accurate analytical results, accuracy is not guaranteed. All results are subject to change without notification. Readers are encouraged to perform their own investment analyses using information they have independently verified.

This blog includes summaries of analyses using a particular analytical approach, referred to here as the GCFR approach. Other approaches might be better for investors having different needs, objectives, or tolerance of risk. The GCFR approach does not fully evaluate a company's financial condition, and the company’s future prospects are not considered. As used here, the GCFR approach is a filter to select companies having a certain set of characteristics for more detailed research.