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Downside to Value Investing?
By Market Uncle  •  June 22, 2009
[caption id="attachment_2754" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Photo by Jenny downing"]Photo by Jenny downing[/caption] The story The controlling shareholder, Wong's Brothers, decided to delist Tsit Wing at an offer price of 27 SGD cents. The rationale behind the delist is due to poor interest in its stock (low market valuation that does not reflect its worth) and to facilitate restructuring by easing capital investment into the business as a private status. Downside to value investing Entering my 4th year of investing, I finally experienced a downside to value investing - voluntary delisting of an undervalued company. I have myself to blame (or at least someone, or something to blame) if I wrongly valued a company and overpay for the business. I will be glad to analyse what went wrong and avoid making similar mistakes. But when a company is to be delisted just because its value is not recognised (that's precisely the reason why I invest in it), then I really feel like banging the wall all these years for nothing. Delisting unvalued firms not equivalent to value trap I must stress here that such misfortune is not tantamount to a value trap. Value trap occurs when an investor overpays for a business with the wrong assessment that it is undervalued. Read more...
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By Market Uncle
Market Uncle is a value investor and maintains a blog in the form of a personal diary where he shares his views on investment and economic issues.
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