TAILIEUCHUNG - The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value part 38

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book On Value part 38. The purpose of this book is to supply, in a form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. Comparatively little will be said here about the technique of analyzing securities; attention will be paid chiefly to investment principles and investors’ attitudes. We shall, however, provide a number of condensed comparisons of specific securities - chiefly in pairs appearing side by side in the New York Stock Exchange list in order to bring home in concrete fashion the important elements involved in specific choices of common stocks | 356 The Intelligent Investor Here the vast majority of issues appear to be cut out by their performance record and their price ratios in accordance with the defensive investor s needs as we judge them. We exclude one criterion from our tests of public-utility stocks namely the ratio of current assets to current liabilities. The working-capital factor takes care of itself in this industry as part of the continuous financing of its growth by sales of bonds and shares. We do require an adequate proportion of stock capital to In Table 14-4 we present a resume of the 15 issues in the Dow Jones public-utility average. For comparison Table 14-5 gives a similar picture of a random selection of fifteen other utilities taken from the New York Stock Exchange list. As 1972 began the defensive investor could have had quite a wide choice of utility common stocks each of which would have met our requirements for both performance and price. These companies offered him everything he had a right to demand from simply chosen common-stock investments. In comparison with prominent industrial companies as represented by the DJIA they offered almost as good a record of past growth plus smaller fluctuations in the annual figures both at a lower price in relation to earnings and assets. The dividend return was significantly higher. The position of the utilities as regulated monopolies is assuredly more of an advantage than a disadvantage for the conservative investor. Under law they are entitled to charge rates sufficiently remunerative to attract the capital they need for their continuous expansion and this implies adequate offsets to inflated costs. While the process of regulation has often been cumbersome and perhaps dilatory it has not prevented the utilities from earning a fair return on their rising invested capital over many decades. celed and decommissioned nuclear energy plants nor did he foresee the consequences of bungled regulation in California. Utility stocks are .

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