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Strategies & Market Trends : Greenblatt's Little Book That Beats The Market

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From: Paul Senior10/15/2016 12:11:55 PM
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Interview with J. Greenblatt in today's Barron's.

About his fund - Gotham Index Plus - which is based on the S&P 500, with added tweaks of his picks of cheap S&P stocks, and shorts of expensive ones - he mentions APPL: "Apple is one of our four biggest positions on the long side. It has double-digit free-cash-flow yields, while the S&P 500 is less than half that."

And we don’t own just Apple. We own a “bucket” of Apples—companies that gush cash with huge returns on capital and nice market niches. Qualcomm [QCOM] is another. People worry about the semiconductor market for handsets slowing. OK, growth isn’t what it once was, but it has huge market share, dominates a section of its industry, and has moves it can make through current technology or acquisitions: Smartcars and a lot of other things can use its technology.
He also mentions CVS.

CVS is another big position (ed. in that small fund)—again, gushing cash, but people worry about a new president, new health-care rules, and integrating some acquisitions. We think these are short-term concerns. The big problem with most active managers is they avoid companies where clarity over a year or two is a little opaque.
I've been following CVS as it's dropped and have been acquiring shares. Company seems to be facing increased competition and some question about how increase in generic drug prescriptions will affect its business. Its growth history though is good (imo) and given the company's size and business, I expect/hope the stock price will improve over time (couple of years?).
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