Warren Buffett Historical Growth is a quality investing strategy inspired by an interpretation of Warren Buffett's investment approach by Mary Buffett and David Clark in their book, The New Buffettology. It is a strategy that combines Buffett's focus on value and business quality. To work out whether the stock is reasonably valued, the strategy uses historical earnings growth; the higher that growth rate is, the more likely it is that the company has a durable competitive advantage. The strategy also looks for low debt and a high earnings yield, return on equity and return on capital employed. In The New Buffettology, Mary Buffett and David Clark explain: "Historical per share earnings that are both strong and show an upward trend indicate a durable competitive advantage." Remember, Buffett is famous for looking beyond financial measures when examining the quality of a business franchise.
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The world's most famous living investor, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
The New Buffettology
by Mary Buffett, David Clark
The original book, "Buffettology: The Previously Unexplained Techniques That Have Made Warren Buffett the World's Most Famous Investor", was published in 1997 - a more recent edition, "The New Buffetology" was released in 2002. We are not aware of any backtesting for this screen.
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FTSE 100 |
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| 1 week | 2.6% | 2.8% | 0.3% | -3.1% | 1.5% | -3.3% | 0.8% | -1.5% |
| 1 month | 4.4% | 5.4% | 1.9% | -2.2% | 2.7% | 3.2% | 1.6% | 1.1% |
| 3 months | 5.0% | 2.7% | 4.5% | -10.5% | -5.2% | 6.4% | -0.1% | 2.0% |
| 6 months | 4.7% | 10.7% | 15.9% | -22.1% | 11.0% | 11.5% | 8.2% | 0.7% |
| 1 year | 10.8% | 10.1% | 26.3% | -26.8% | 8.4% | 6.5% | 3.9% | 3.7% |
| 2 years | -1.7% | -9.6% | 31.7% | -54.5% | 3.9% | -0.9% | 3.2% | -1.6% |
| Annualised | 2.8% | 4.4% | 12.9% | -11.4% | 11.0% | 11.7% | 8.3% | |
| Risks | ||||||||
| Max Drawdown | -37.0% | -31.6% | -27.1% | -62.1% | -17.5% | -24.9% | -20.6% | |
| Avg Holdings | 15.9 | 24.2 | 25 | 16.7 | 5.1 | 25 | 8.6 | |
| Diversification | Good | Good | Good | Good | Low | Good | Moderate | |
