Buckingham is a value investor who likes companies trading at low multiples of earnings, sales and book value.
Barrow, 60, is sticking to the formula he has used for nearly four decades: Pay some attention to the prospects for a company, just as a growth manager would, but don't buy unless it is trading at a low multiple of its earnings or book value.
Because the health-insurance group has been so deeply out of favor, it still offers value investors a shot at low-priced shares, at a time when bargains are growing harder to find elsewhere.
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With natural gas prices at these low levels many of these prospects have a negative present value.
In America, Japan's competitive cars and the value of the yen (at a 20-year low on a trade-weighted basis) threaten to become political issues again.
Just as the workers at Exxon would be poor not rich by global standards i9f they had a low value add: for they would have the low wages to go along with the low productivity.
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The secret of success in this new M2M world is creating a rich ecosystem that can maximize the value and keep costs low at each step of the chain that runs from the devices all the way up back up to the data center.
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Value consciousness, which is an overarching concern with getting something at a low price, also did not predict number of daily-deal purchases.
But the bank is adding low-cost deposits, and with the stock trading at a mere 95% of its book value, Schutz is staying put.
In particular, the low insider interest may mean that stocks are not trading at a good discount to their net asset value, or there are poor earnings prospects in the view of company directors.
And it would mean China could continue to buy US Treasury securities at a cheaper price to make up for the declining value of the dollar, which hit a new low for the past several decades today.
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