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March, 2024: 23
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Investor's Journal is a diary focused strictly on investments and personal finance issues, primarily from a contrarian and retiree point of view. Follow along with an average guy's failures and successes as he learns, by trial and error, the fine art of value investing.


3/23/24- Our total liquid assets have gained $69,522 or 3.26% since our 2/14/24 entry and now stand at $2,201,525.

The nest egg of all assets, including real estate, is up $123,615 or 4.61% since the end of last year and is now worth $2,805,655.

Our basic 25 holdings remain as in our last entry, and the plan is simply to post them through the end of 2024 or till they have been held a year and a day, whichever later. Once again, they are as follows:

Dividend Assets CHK; CMCSA; F; FINV; JWN; NXST; SD; WFC;

Value Assets ALSN; BOOT; CPE; GPOR; INMD; INSW; JKS; NEXN; PBF; SBOW; SWN; ZYME;

Growth Assets CELH; MNDY; NARI;

Exchange Traded Funds [ETFs] QQQ and VBR.

In our last entry I mentioned The Tweedy, Brown Company, LLC, how it had benefitted from association with Benjamin Graham, and the five characteristics of stocks on which that firm focused in seeking worthwhile value investments. Two of those criteria, low price to book value and low price to earnings are also of particular interest for me in looking for likely market-beating assets.

Here are ten I like currently that each have at least low P/E and/or low P/Bk in its favor, along with low price to free cash flow, low dividend payout ratio (if there is a dividend), low debt, and positive return on equity: ARCH; BTU; CEIX; INSW; JWN; NXST; PARR; REPX; TNK; and VYGR. No guarantees, of course, but I believe a portfolio of stocks such as these should do well if held till no longer undervalued.

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