Bruce Sherman: It was a difficult quarter

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Aug 03, 2006
It was a difficult quarter for equities, wrote Bruce Sherman, the Guru from Private Capital Management. However, “Private Capital Management is a high conviction manager, committed to taking large positions in specific securities where we perceive a substantial dichotomy between the stock price and our estimate of private market value.”


“We evaluate corporate cash generation potential through a complete business cycle; a time-line of minimally three to five years. This discipline has disqualified a number of recently strongly performing industries from consideration due to concerns ranging from excessive capital intensity to the inherent unpredictability of long-term cash flow…..”


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(Specially thanks to Paul of Private Capital Management for making this letter available to GuruFocus readers.)