Citigroup analysts note that the second part of the buy-in hinged on an agreement to value the remaining 49% stake in NBCUniversal based on market multiples ascribed to competitors.
Buckingham makes his investment decisions based on company fundamentals, preferring to buy into stocks trading for modest multiples of earnings, book value and sales.
The Zweig strategy, based on my understanding, likes stocks with fairly low price-to-earnings multiples, but not so low (below 5) that one has to wonder if there's something really wrong with the company.