I’ve been warning all year about a clear and obvious bubble in consumer staples stocks.  The same can be said for utilities and many areas on the fixed income market.  This bubble has been built on the pervasive market sentiment that as long as the dividend yield is reasonably greater than what can be obtained...Read More

“Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience.  No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time:  You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”- Warren Buffett The bull market that started in March of 2009 is now on the verge of its 6th and a half year,...Read More

As earnings season continues to develop, we have seen a bit of divergence in favor of value stocks. Companies that have been out of favor, due to difficult short-term business conditions, and that have incredibly low valuations have outperformed glamor stocks that trade at high multiples, based on the perception of safety. It is essential...Read More

There have been a few good articles lately on market valuations. We are in an extremely odd investment environment with hundreds of billions dollars’ worth of government bonds across the globe trading at negative interest rates. Basically, they are guaranteeing themselves a loss unless they can pick up a few pennies before a bigger sucker...Read More

One of the best value investors that I follow is Donald Yacktman.  I appreciate the way that he looks at risk-adjusted returns and takes a truly long-term perspective with only about 7% turnover, which is exceptionally low for a mutual fund.  Right now he is finding the most value in large consumer staples companies such...Read More

There is some big news today as Bill Ackman appears to be getting involved in Procter & Gamble (PG).  At T&T Capital Management we have recently been getting more involved in PG as well as the stock is very cheap at about 13 times earnings with a dividend near 4%.  The company has made some...Read More

Procter & Gamble’s (PG) struggles continue as the the company lowered its earnings guidance for the current quarter as well as for the 2013 fiscal year.  The problems aren’t just from a lackluster global economy but instead are also market share related.  The company announced that they are going to cut spending in emerging markets...Read More

Procter & Gamble (PG) reported disappointing earnings last week and cut its earnings forecast to $3.88.  PG is struggling in terms of their pricing as competition is stealing market share by being lower in price.  This in turn has PG on the defensive having to lower prices which obviously has a negative impact on margins....Read More