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Value Investing Forum > What about Columbia Sportswear (COLM)?

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ctmoore8803

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Posted June 15, 2009 (08:26PM)
I am new to the trading world, only about 1 year experience, and have been trying to find a few good stocks that meet the Value Investing guidelines.  I came across Columbia Sportswear (COLM) and wanted to get the opinion of other value investors out there who have more trading experience than I do.
The stock seems to meet all of Benjamin Graham's criteria for a value stock,  approximately 66% of the stock is owned by insiders,  it's current price of shares in float is approximately 57% of net current asset value, and it's ROIC over the past 5 years has averaged 15%. 
What other value stocks has anyone run across?
What do you think of COLM?
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Posted June 16, 2009 (01:02PM)
Its fairly valued in my opinion.

There is a lot more stocks that are better than this one and it has a low EPS growth rate, and some years it had negative growth. Good thing about the is that it has no debt.