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  1. May 21, 2024 · To paraphrase Benjamin Graham: Over the short term the market is a voting machine, but over the long term it's a weighing machine. One way to examine how market sentiment has...

  2. Jan 9, 2020 · The stock market is a voting machine rather than a weighing machine. It responds to factual data not directly, but only as they affect the decisions of buyers and sellers. Note that neither of the passages written by Graham and Dodd mentioned the key distinction between short-term and long-term.

  3. Apr 19, 2024 · Group PLC (AIM: YU.), the independent supplier of gas and electricity, meter asset owner, and installer of smart meters to the UK corporate sector, announces that it has made an application...

  4. Jun 20, 2018 · Voting machine deals with expectations and the weighing machine deals with the actual economic benefits provided to the owners.

  5. Feb 9, 2024 · In the short-run, the market is a voting machine – reflecting a voter-registration test that requires only money, not intelligence or emotional stability – but in the long-run, the market is a weighing machine.

  6. Jun 19, 2018 · The voting machine is a short-term scoreboard of how investors feel about the prospects of a business or stock at any given moment. This can be heavily influenced by factors like quarterly earnings reports, the price targets peddled by Wall Street analysts and the media’s conversation of the day.

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    Jun 24, 2024 · The grandfather of value investing, Ben Graham, famously said that “in the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine”. What Graham meant is that in the long-term market prices move to reflect the economic fundamentals of companies, whereas in the short-term they are dictated by the whims of ...

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