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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Investment Strategies / Falling Knives
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Author: weatherman ✹  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Poorly performing value traps I am buying
Date: 07/12/26 2:58 PM
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falling knives has been used a bit loosely.

- is it at multiyear lows, not just bigly down from highs?
- has it significantly underperformed primary peers, sector, industry?
- is shareprice greatly underperforming 2-3 quarters of business fundamentals?
- have they retained\improved management with prior solid track record, or recently hired rentals in the c-suite?

catchables should hit some of these, but unlikely all.

i no longer think underperforming the market is useful falling knife metric, as long as year+ market performance is mostly huge weights +\- outperformance of 1-2 sectors.

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