I consider myself a value investor, this investment philosophy boils down to investing undervalued, under-researched and unpopular companies; reasons for one of these three elements can be different: special situations (spin-off, turnarounds, arbitrage), analyst coverage (low or very negative coverage), investor fatigue (because of earnings misses), misunderstood parts of the business (e.g. in case of holdings), and cyclicals.

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I believe value and growth should not be considered as two different approaches since value investor also need earnings powers, pricing power and earnings growth.

Every ...More investment should start with the inherent risks and not with the return. A sufficient margin of safety should be provided with every investment you make. This way, investors might lag the market or the hot money stocks in the short term. In the long run however, they will win.

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