Right now, the tech bellwether is getting solid scores from two of my guru strategies.
It passes three of my guru-based models, including the one inspired by the writings of the late, great Benjamin Graham.
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Here are a handful of firms that pass those tests, and get approval from at least one of my guru-inspired models.
In fact, most of the investors upon whom I base my Guru Strategies used a mixture of growth-related variables and valuation-related variables.
My Guru Strategies (each of which is based on the approach of a different investing great) look at a myriad of financial and fundamental data when analyzing a company and its shares.
These are all persuasive arguments, and they got me wondering which natural gas industry companies get approval from my Guru Strategies, each of which is based on the approach of a different investing great.
Recently, I used my Guru Strategies (computer models that are based on the approaches of Warren Buffett and other highly successful investors) to find some of the most fundamentally sound high-dividend-paying stocks in the market.
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My bond guru, Robert Smith believes the return this year on the 10 year will be 8.50% if the yield falls to 1.25%.
It was a surprise to suddenly hear from my gold guru that he had decided to go back in and replace the 50% of his holdings he sold some two years ago.
My brilliant bond guru, Bob Smith of Smith Capital, is still mighty bullish about US Treasuries.
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My sidekick Andrew Gillen (my financial aid guru) and I have always made one exception to that criticism: the Pell Grant Program.
Only utility stocks look to be the safe defensive play just now, according to Richard Ross, my market technician guru at Auerbach Grayson.
The common sense, mostly quantitative approach he laid out in Super Stocks also caught my attention, and led me to create my Fisher-based Guru Strategy.
My Buffett-based Guru Strategy attempts to answer that question.
With that in mind, I recently used my Validea.com Guru Strategies, each of which is based on the approach of a different investing great, to find some strong stocks that look cheap on a number of different levels.
While Buffett was speaking in generalities, it got me wondering how ADM, GD, and EXC stacked up against my Buffett-inspired Guru Strategy, which is based on the approach Buffett used to build his empire (a strategy that Mary Buffett, his former colleague and daughter-in-law, disclosed in her book Buffettology).
As my friend and retail-guru Richie Goldman likes to remind people, you create your own luck.
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My favorite traveling foodie, DIY kitchen guru, and curmudgeonly wise-ass, Mark Bittman, is ending his popular column, The Minimalist.
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"As those of you who have followed my turbulent relationship with WikiLeaks and its Guru-In-Chief Julian Assange know, I am first in line when it comes to distancing myself from his brand of transparency without government checks and balances, " the fake post reads.
"I regard the invasion of the person's space sitting behind me as an unfortunate, but easily tolerated, side-effect of my attempt to achieve a modicum of comfort while flying, " wrote travel guru Arthur Frommer in his blog this year.
In this case, let 2008 flops Love Guru (starring Myers), Meet Dave (starring Murphy) and My Own Worst Enemy (starring Slater) serve as examples.
Early on in my career at FORBES, nearly 40 years ago, I submitted a story about a noted stock market guru to our legendarily tough editor, Jim Michaels.
Still, I bruised my ribs pulling myself out of the pool yesterday (a quality problem, says friend and de-stress guru Judy Martin, a Beverly Hills or Hollywood problem, though I do not live within the boundaries of either mythical City).
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In my early years as a consultant and business coach, I would often sit in rooms where a highly paid guru from Bain or McKinsey or Accenture would pontificate to a group of execs about their business and how they should run it.
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