Investing Styles

Pick a school of investing and see the thinking behind it. Each style explains its core idea, the methodology its practitioners follow, and the master investors you can study to learn it.

Deep Value

Buy a dollar for fifty cents.

Buy assets trading far below their conservative worth, with a wide margin of safety. The cheapness itself is the protection.

How they think

  • 1Anchor on tangible value — net-nets, book value, replacement cost.
  • 2Demand a large discount to intrinsic value before buying.
  • 3Diversify across many cheap names rather than concentrate.
  • 4Let reversion to value, not a story, do the work.

About this module

These style summaries are educational overviews of public investing philosophies. They are not investment advice, and the investors referenced are not affiliated with or endorsing Valuefocus.

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