Think Warren Buffett is a financial genius? Ever wonder if he was just starting out again what kind of stocks he would invest in? Today’s article highlights 12 articles they think a young Buffett would have invested in. Here’s how they figured out which ones he would have picked, “The formula is quite complex, containing over a dozen components. Three major characteristics of stocks stand out:
Safety, as measured by low historical volatility and low beta.
Cheap, as measured by low price-to-book ratios.
High quality, meaning stocks that are “profitable, stable, growing and with high [dividend] payout ratios.
Because companies that satisfy those criteria tend to be conservative, we can tolerate allocating more of our portfolios to them than we would with more speculative stocks. ” To read more, CLICK HERE.