Money Management for the New Economy
Warren Buffett has never invested into a single stock because of its dividend in his 70+ years of investing. Neither has his partner, Charlie. There isn’t a single person on the Forbes 100 richest list that got there as a dividend investor, either. In the case of Warren, ninety-nine percent (over 99%!) of his wealth…
Lucara Diamond is a classic FMT Investment Advisory Special Situation. The business has the following characteristics: An aligned management team and board of directors who own 21% of the common shares Profitable (has paid out $257 million in dividends since 2014) A strong balance sheet with no debt An attractive valuation (9.7x TTM earnings) with…
I believe we are sleepwalking into a major rally… oil is undersupplied by at least 500,000 barrels per day. Crude inventories are depleting and the decline curve (well depletion) never sleeps. Meanwhile, oil companies haven’t been this cheap versus the WTI spot price in 25-30 years. As for the macro, summer travel is upon us,…
Over time (typically between 6 months and 3 years), stock prices will approximate the intrinsic value of the businesses they represent. If you’re a speculator or you base your investment decisions on emotion, intrinsic value means absolutely nothing to you and we wish your hard-earned money well with your magic eight ball. And if you…
There’s an age-old adage saying that what the wise man does in the beginning is what the fool does in the end. In investment parlance, a fortune can be made when an investor becomes bullish on markets and assets before a bull market ensues. This sounds easy, but it is extremely difficult to implement psychologically.…
Okay, so now that we know every Hollywood star has either sexually harassed or was sexually harassed we can move onto other topics, such as investing. With that out of my system, FMT Investment Advisory believes real assets will outperform the markets by a significant margin over the course of the next 3 years. FMT…
To paraphrase Sir John Templeton, bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. In the short-term, markets aren’t about math (though they always revert to it). They are about psychology. This bull market began in March of 2009. The psychology of the markets was as pessimistic as…
FMT Advisory’s research has identified a few money trends that we have just begun to allocate capital towards. One huge money trend we are invested in is that of value businesses beginning to outperform their sexy growth counterparts as the growth-value cycle shifts. When economic growth is tepid, investors pay up for companies that can…
There are only 28 hitters in the Major Leagues that have a batting average over .300. Said another way, just 28 players at the highest level of the game can barely get base hits more than 3 out of every 10 at bats. To hit .300 or more year in and year out puts a…
FMT Investment Advisory implements and reveres value-based investment ideas. Predictions for Dow 50,000 or Dow 6,000 are utterly nonsense. Soothsaying isn’t a formula for successful investing. Our advice is to ignore, delete, unfriend, or unsubscribe to anything or anyone pontificating such hogwash. Outlandish predictions are great for attracting eyeballs, but they are virtually useless to…
