Value Investing Word Clouds

By Max Olson  |  September 13th, 2008 at 10:55 am  |  General, Investing

Berkshire Hathaway Letters (1983-1987)
Berkshire Letters 83-87

Berkshire Hathaway Letters (2003-2007)
Berkshire Letters 03-07

A word cloud is a visual representation of a group of words, with the size of each word weighted to how many times it appears. The above two examples use the Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters for the 5-year periods ending in 1987 and 2007. You can see some often-used words between the 20-year period: business, earnings, value, company, insurance. Word clouds are a good representation of what subjects the author is focusing on.
Below are a few more examples: (all created at Wordle)

Margin of Safety
Buffett Partnership Letters
The Intelligent Investor
Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville

  • http://www.noisefreeinvesting.com/blog/ NoiseFreeInvesting.com

    Great post! very interesting.

    Shane

  • http://www.circleofcompetenceblog.com Jeff

    Great stuff Max. Loved it!



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