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General Questions

Why should I focus on value investing?

According to research firm Ibbotson Associates, between 1968 and 2002 value stocks delivered an impressive annual return of +11%, easily outpacing the +8.8% return of growth stocks -- and with less volatility. Furthermore, a number of studies have also shown that small companies tend to outperform large ones over the long haul. With this in mind, we focus our Half-Priced Stocks newsletter exclusively on the search for deeply-discounted stocks.

How does editor Nathan Slaughter find undervalued investment ideas?

Nathan Slaughter and our research staff uncover these hidden treasures by using a proven, time-tested technique called Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Modeling.

To determine a fair value price for a company,  first we project the amount of operating cash flow the firm is likely to produce in the years ahead. From there, we determine how much those future cash flows are worth in today's dollars by discounting them back to the present at a rate sufficient to compensate investors for the risk taken. After doing this, we then arrive at a fairly accurate estimate of each firm's true, risk-adjusted intrinsic value.

Calculating fair values by using this complex methodology can be an exhaustive process -- but we don't stop there. After narrowing down an initial pool of thousands of potential stocks, only the most deeply undervalued qualify for inclusion in our regular monthly issue of Half-Priced Stocks.

Editorial Questions

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Although we'd love to answer all of your personal investing questions, SEC regulations prohibit us from providing direct, personal investing advice. Nonetheless, rest assured that we will always give you sufficient guidance on all of our investing ideas in each of our Half-Priced Stocks newsletters. As always, please make sure to do your own due diligence on each company we mention in our newsletter to decide if it is right for your portfolio. You should use our newsletters for informational and entertainment purposes only. Any and all final investing decisions for your own account are entirely up to you.

Where can I find definitions of unfamiliar terms used in your newsletter?

If you're unfamiliar with any of the terms or analysis we use in our Half-Priced Stocks newsletter, then you will likely find a complete description of these terms in our financial dictionary. To view our financial dictionary on our web site, please visit the following link: 
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