A contemporary international look at the time-tested value investment approach, from one of its most famed practitioners. It provides the backgrounds, basics, and benefits of value investing, as well as strategies for assembling and managing a value based portfolio. It also includes the latest data and statistics. Guide for investors, showing how to identify companies ahead of the crowd: what to look for, what to avoid, when to buy, and when to sell.

The Failsafe System for Uncovering Undervalued Stocks and Building Long-Term Prosperity Praise for the First Edition of Value Investing Today "A good, modern-day synopsis of a time-tested philosophy. Readers who follow these principles are bound to achieve results."--Henry Emerson, Editor Outstanding Investor Digest ``An invaliable primer to point the individual investor in the direction of the most consisten and reliable investment techniques: value investing."--Alan R. Kahn, President, Kahn Brothers & Co., Inc.

Value investing is the well-respected, discipline investment approach that enables you to search out solid companies not yet discovered by most investors. Charles H. Brandes' Value Investing Today, Second Edition (a bestseller in its First Edition) now updates this long-term wealth building strategy with data, statistics, and examples drawn from today's financial press. This step-by-step guidebook shows you how to assemble a high-value portfolio positioned for maximum growth--and how to time each sale for maximum profit. Value Investing Today helps you sift through today's mountain of investment information to find those undiscovered companies with superior long-term potential. You can then build a portfolio of "sleeping giants"--companies that, because of a lack of market attention or a highly publicised failure, have intrinsic values not yet reflected in their stock princes. You know they're out there--Value Investing Today--shows you how to find them!

This revised classic is the one book you need to make money as you: Discover proven strategies to break from the crowd and, ". . .buy straw hats in winter"; Learn which readily-available reference materials hide excellent companies that are being overlooked by today's "quick-money" crowd; Minimize your risks, as well as your anxiety, by setting a patient investment course to bring you long-term wealth; Use tested guidelines, as revealed in a section greatly expanded for this Second Edition, for beating the crowd to emerging markets overseas.

Updated data and insights to help value investors address the realities of today's markets

On the heels of recent stock market tumbles and deceptions, value investing--the staple of investing greats from Benjamin Graham to Warren Buffett--has roared back into the spotlight. Value Investing Today returns with a new edition, filled with updated information and advice to give investors the skills and knowledge to become successful value investors.

Broader in scope than previous editions, this third edition offers fresh lessons investors can use to uncover stocks that are, for whatever reason, underpriced in relation to their value. Updates to this edition include:

* New chapters on the psychology of investing and corporate governance

* Expanded discussions on the importance of margin of safety

* Increased correlations among world markets, and how to capitalize on them