Founder's Story
David started investing at the age of twelve to pay for college. His successes allowed him to gain an education, work on Wall Street, and travel the world. After finally reading The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, he discovered a way to combine value investing principles with interactive web technology. David founded WikiWealth to mobilize the diverse talents of Main Street investors to produce the highest quality investment analysis. Now everyone can meet their investment goals as he did.
WikiWealth was founded during the Great Recession to help everyday investors prosper during such a tumultuous investing environment. For those brave enough to invest, the recession probably offered the greatest opportunities of their lifetime. WikiWealth recognized the extraordinary investment opportunities when others were fearful. We want Main Street investors to have the same success as us.
The WikiWealth Revolution
Investing has gone through several revolutions, each of which occurred after traumatic events. Before The Great Depression, Main Street investors mostly speculated by relying on tips from barbers and shoe-shiners. After The Depression, investors desired consistent growth in dividends and earnings per share, which was an improvement on previous strategies, but failed to find new and innovative companies. For the last thirty years, investors focused on companies with "good ideas" in order to find the next Microsoft, RIMM, or Toll Brothers. This theory mostly self-destructed during the dot com, housing, and credit bubbles, because for every Microsoft, there were 100 bad ideas.
WikiWealth utilizes a value investing philosophy developed decades ago by Benjamin Graham, and perfected by Warren Buffett. This approach combines fundamental company analysis with “good ideas” to provide a full investment picture.
For Main Street Investors
Over the past year, WikiWealth discovered Warren Buffett’s secret investing formula, broke the currency valuation riddle, and invented a way to value commodity investments. The WikiWealth team valued more companies than any investment bank in the world and put nearly $40 million worth of custom analysis on WikiWealth.com. Each report is completely transparent, and in many cases, users can edit and experiment with the analysis. All work, notes, theories, models, and knowledge is free to view at WikiWealth.com.
Wall Street accrues fees from hard work and brilliant ideas, but their assumptions from time to time cause catastrophic damage to Main Street investors. We created WikiWealth to provide Wall Street tools for Main Street investors, so we could control our own financial future. The creativity, knowledge and resourcefulness of millions of investors power each investment analysis.
Investing is Not Gambling
WikiWealth practices conservative value investing principles. WikiWealth has an infinitely long-term approach that caters to low fee and low turnover objectives. WikiWealth analyzes each individual company and we are very conservative with financial projections. WikiWealth’s entire investing philosophy strives to mimic the investing principles pioneered by Warren Buffett, the most successful investor of all time.
Superior Analysis
WikiWealth.com combines Wall Street Investment Analysis with Main Street Common Sense in an interactive research report of the highest quality, clarity, and transparency. The wiki-based platform – popularized by Wikipedia – gives investors the ability to add content, openly discuss opinions and influence investment ratings. Each group has their opinions, but only the best stocks can pass both rigorous examinations. Here are 35 reasons why WikiWealth.com provides the best investment research in the world.
Main Street Common Sense (long term investment potential): Investors finally get the attention and authority they deserve. They have the most influence upon a company’s value, because they buy their goods and use their services. The wiki-based platform allows investors to easily add their first-hand experience directly to WikiWealth investment reports. Investors reference the report to answer a variety of questions, which directly influence a stock’s rating. WikiWealth.com provides the platform to share information freely so we are all better informed.
Wall Street Investment Analysis (short term investment potential): WikiWealth.com brings a revolution to traditional Wall Street-style analysis. Each WikiWealth.com quantitative analysis is conservative by default, open to scrutiny, draws upon user input, updates in real-time, and is judged based on quality. If users disagree with the analysis, WikiWealth.com provides the ability to experiment without affecting the results for others. WikiWealth.com promotes feedback and encourages user innovation.
Interactive Analysis: The new WikiWealth completes our mission of providing the highest quality investment research with cooperative investment ratings, user generated content and critiques, real-time updates, fundamental analysis, rigorous examinations, transparent assumptions, and market beating results.
Can WikiWealth Beat the Market?
Yes. The investment analysis helps as intended. WikiWealth's mock hedge fund (best stock buys) beat the stock market (S&P 500) by 27 percent between Nov 4th, 2008 and March 31, 2009. Follow our portfolio here: WikiWealth Hedge Fund.
Black Box Investing?
A black box receives inputs and produces outputs, but the inner workings of a black box are unknown, so it can be dangerous. Black box is a common term used on Wall Street to describe a program that analyzes data to produce money-making results. WikiWealth does not in any way use a black box to produce investment information or analysis. We believe that even the most advanced programs fail to capture every possible variable and often go disastrously wrong after large mysterious returns (see: Bank Crisis and Long Term Capital Management fiasco). We slave away on absolutely every investment, because we use this stuff also!
How Do We Make Money?
WikiWealth does not rely on advertising, because the power of our investment research allows us to continue to beat the stock market. Our research reports rely on the unique interactive abilities of the Web 2.0 infrastructure, so doing this analysis on personal computers is not as effective. Additionally, we have nearly two dozen ways to generate revenue once our services obtains critical mass. Quality research is our only preoccupation; users recognize that objective. If you are interested in strategic partnerships or venture capital investments, write us a note.
Full & Fair Disclosure
WikiWealth employees currently own the follow stocks: EPE, TGH, and RTP. It is not a good idea to copy our investment strategy, because risk tolerance, tax implications and investment needs differ per individual.
