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Margin of safety

Benjamin Graham's idea of only buying when the price sits a comfortable distance below your fair-value estimate, leaving room for error. Here a stock reads "cheap" when the price is at least 15% below fair value, "expensive" when 15% above, and "fair" in between.

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Chowder number Dividend Yield Theory Fair value (DDM) Sector-relative valuation Two-stage DDM Value score Yield band 200-day average
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