With the 2024-25 school year at its end, my Ivey value investing students submitted their final stock picks and analysis, which are a very important element of my value investing classes.

Their past picks have generally done well. The last one I reported on was TerraVest Industries Inc. ( TVK-T ) in 2023, which at the time was $27 and is now around $128.

As has always been the case for young students/investors, it is much easier to find “deep value” stocks (those Ben Graham would have liked, normally lower quality small cap stocks that have low price-to-earnings and price-to-book ratios), than finding “quality” stocks (those that would appeal to Warren Buffett, with a high degree of competitive advantage and sustainability, which can still be found to be undervalued, even with a high

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