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Benjamin Graham NCAV Bargain is a deep value 'bargain' investing strategy based on rules suggested by legendary investor, Benjamin Graham, who wrote The Intelligent Investor. This is a simple value approach that looks for companies with a market capitalisation that is less than their net current asset value. NCAV is the calculation of current assets minus current liabilities. Ben Graham wrote: "You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right." In a study by Henry Oppenhemier in the Financial Analysts Journal, the mean return from discounted net current asset stocks over a 13-year period was 29.4% per year versus 11.5% per year for the NYSE-AMEX Index. Ben Graham advocated buying stocks that, if they were to collapse tomorrow, should still produce a positive return because of the underlying asset backing. To reduce exposure to individual failures, he also looked for a margin of safety of about 33% and suggested diversifying between at least 30 stocks. more »
Price to NCAV compares the current price to the Net Current Asset Value which equals the companies current assets minus its total liabilities. This gives an additional margin of safety versus Price to Book Value - on this valuation measure, one is essentially paying nothing for all the fixed assets (buildings, machinery, etc, or any goodwill items that may exist.
This is the daily average of the cumulative trading volume during the last three months.
As an example, the 3 month average volume of Vodafone, admittedly a mega-cap, as of May 15th 2015 was 59,376,983.
Stockopedia explains 3m Avg Vol...
Large institutional funds cannot trade in and out of a stock without leaving their footprints, and learning to read the signs in daily and weekly volume is important. If current volumes are higher than previous volumes while price is increasing, it may be a sign of fund accumulation
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