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 | -3.6% | -3.6% | -1.6% | -2.1% | -2.1% | 1.1% | -1.0% | -1.7% |
| 1 month | 0.7% | -4.0% | -4.7% | 8.2% | -5.5% | -1.5% | -4.5% | -0.1% |
| 3 months | 13.7% | 6.3% | 14.2% | -2.9% | -1.2% | 4.5% | 2.4% | 7.4% |
| 6 months | -7.2% | -12.0% | -0.7% | -8.0% | -16.4% | -8.2% | -10.7% | -4.4% |
| 1 year | -5.1% | -15.4% | 12.8% | -32.0% | -6.1% | -13.2% | -3.8% | 3.7% |
| 2 years | -6.1% | -21.7% | 5.7% | -30.5% | 7.3% | -6.8% | -9.5% | -2.2% |
| Annualised | 1.7% | 2.5% | 10.2% | -3.9% | 6.8% | 10.5% | 6.4% | |
| Risks | ||||||||
| Max Drawdown | -37.0% | -31.6% | -27.1% | -52.5% | -17.8% | -24.9% | -20.6% | |
| Avg Holdings | 15.4 | 24.1 | 24.9 | 17 | 5.6 | 25 | 7.8 | |
| Diversification | Good | Good | Good | Good | Low | Good | Low | |
