After the bit of volatility so far in 2018 I thought you would be interested in a few deep value investment ideas from around the world.
This is what we screened for
To find the deep value ideas this is what I screened for:
- All companies listed on the main stock markets worldwide (excl. China)
- Daily traded volume of at least $100,000 (you must be able to buy or sell relatively easily)
- Minimum company market value $30 million (to remove really small companies)
- Sorted all the companies that met the above criteria by trailing 12 month Earnings Yield (Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT) / Enterprise Value) the best valuation metric ever tested worldwide
The best ratio ever tested
Earningy Yield (EBIT/EV) is truly the 80/20 ratio when it comes to quantitative investing. You can compare it to any ratio, over most time periods, and it will nearly always give you the best returns of all the ratios you test.
Here is more information about Earnings Yield
You can read more about why Earnings Yield is the best ratio you can use to find undervalued companies here:
Price Index 6m & Earnings Yield - The 80/20 of quantitative investing
This simple ratio beats the world’s best value funds
The best valuation metric ever tested worldwide
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The following is what the deep value screen came up with:
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Deep value with a quality indicator – Piotroski F-Score
To get rid of junk companies I added a quality measure, the Piotroski F-Score.
When we first heard about the F-Score we were sceptical – after all it was developed in 2000 by a relatively unknown accounting professor, Prof Joseph Piotroski, at the University of Chicago, to improve the returns of a low (cheap) price to book value investment strategy.
It worked unbelievably well
It worked even better than I am sure he suspected.
If you invested in only those companies that scored best or highest (8 or 9) on his nine-point scale, or F-Score as he called it, over the 20 year period from 1976 to 1996 you would have outperformed the market by an average of 13.4% per year - and this over the whole 20 year period.
More information about the F-Score
You can read more about the Piotroski F-Score here:
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What the cheap quality screen looked like
This is what the screen looked like:
- All companies listed on the main stock markets worldwide
- Daily traded volume of at least $100,000 (you must be able to buy or sell relatively easily)
- Minimum company market value $30 million (to remove really small companies)
- Companies with a Piotroski F-Score higher than 6 (best = 9, Worst = 0).
- Sorted all the companies that met the above criteria by trailing 12 month Earnings Yield (Earnings Before Interest and Taxes to Enterprise Value).
To find more ideas like this
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The following is what the deep value plus quality screen came up with:
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Please remember the above ideas are just that, investment idea for you to research further.
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