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 | -0.9% | 2.1% | 1.0% | 0.5% | 1.9% | -0.3% | 1.7% | -0.2% |
| 1 month | -1.5% | 1.6% | 4.4% | 1.5% | 2.1% | 4.4% | 5.8% | 0.7% |
| 3 months | -0.7% | 4.1% | 2.5% | -10.0% | 5.8% | 3.6% | 8.2% | 0.4% |
| 6 months | 8.9% | 11.3% | 18.7% | -9.8% | 6.1% | 6.7% | 10.6% | 7.5% |
| 1 year | -4.2% | -2.7% | 13.9% | -22.4% | 1.5% | -4.4% | 5.8% | -2.4% |
| 2 years | -0.3% | -9.8% | 23.9% | -37.2% | 10.9% | -0.1% | 1.8% | 1.4% |
| Annualised | 2.3% | 4.4% | 12.5% | -5.7% | 12.0% | 11.9% | 9.5% | |
| Risks | ||||||||
| Max Drawdown | -37.0% | -31.6% | -27.1% | -52.8% | -17.5% | -24.9% | -20.6% | |
| Avg Holdings | 15.7 | 24.2 | 25 | 17.3 | 5.5 | 25 | 8.3 | |
| Diversification | Good | Good | Good | Good | Low | Good | Moderate | |
