ValuFocus Investing: A Cash-Loving Contrarian Way to Invest in Stocks
ValuFocus Investingis written for individual and professional investors who face the daunting task of picking stocks and managing a portfolio in today's volatile equity market. This reliable guide presents the LCRT Investment Process, an investing method that is based on cash flow facts, not media hype or speculative impulse. In it, Rawley Thomas, with the help of William Mahoney, provides an accessible presentation of a contrarian investment modelandthe ValuFocus tool, which offers a highly studious, detailed explanation of understanding a company's true intrinsic value.Once you are able to calculate a company's intrinsic value by understanding if the market is currently under, fairly, or over pricing its stock, then you are able to invest wisely in the stock market. Investors who want to buy undervalued stocks, or sell (short) overvalued ones, will find this book an invaluable resource.A key component to success in the market is the ValuFocus investing tool, which calculates the intrinsic value of every company in its database automatically. ValuFocus is simple to use, because with it you can visually compare current price to intrinsic value on a Value chart that displays all the tools needed to select a stock to buy, sell, or short. Thus, an individual investor can become a highly skilled student of the modeling process and can use this tool to pick stocks and manage their own portfolio.ValuFocus Investingoffers both the fundamentals and more advanced strategies for investors who want to develop an enhanced framework for equity valuation.ValuFocus Investingalso proves useful for investors interested in value management and corporate governance—the managers of business enterprises, who require capital from investors to run and grow their companies. This book is filled with a wealth of helpful concepts on value creation and the authors propose a unique, consistent, and unified path for both investing within the corporation and external investing in the corporation's stock.Offering encouragement to individual investors by outlining a model that delivers satisfying returns,ValuFocus Investingis especially useful for those who are patient and believe in longer-term investing horizons.