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Third Avenue Value PM, Matthew Fine is featured in this Business Insider piece where he describes the opportunities he is finding in small-cap and international companies as a ‘once-in-generation event’.

Key takeaways include:

  • Through all the wild market swings of the past five years, Matthew Fine’s fund has risen.
  • Focusing on small caps and international companies has led to his outperformance.
  • 10 top stocks worth investing in right now, in Fine’s view.

 

P/E Ratio: The price-to-earnings ratio is the ratio for valuing a company that measures its current share price relative to its earnings per share (EPS). To determine the P/E value, one must simply divide the current stock price by the earnings per share (EPS).

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Among funds in the Morningstar Global Small/Mid Stock Funds category, the Third Avenue Value Fund ranked in the top 3% for the 1-year period out of 159 funds, 1% for the 3-year period out of 139 funds, 4% for the 5-year period out of 121 funds and ranked 26% for the 10-year period out of 87 funds as of 9/30/23. Morningstar percentile rank is a standardized way of ranking items within a peer group, in this case, funds with the same Morningstar Category. The highest percentile rank is 1 and the lowest is 100. It is based on Morningstar total return, which includes both income and capital gains of losses and is not adjusted for sales charges or redemption fees. Ratings and rankings are one measure of performance. Some of our Funds have experienced negative performance for the time periods shown.

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