Value Investing (Online): Making Intelligent Investment Decisions

Legendary investors like Warren Buffett and Mario Gabelli have been guided by the value investing principles during their entire careers. It’s an investment approach that helps investors identify, research, and buy securities priced well below their true market value.

This online program is designed to give you a strong foundation in the value investing process. We’ll give you tools and strategies to collect and analyze information as well as an integrated framework that teaches you how to identify opportunities for investment that others may miss.

Throughout the program, we ask questions such as:

Other Formats

This program is also being offered in a live online format. Learn more about Value Investing (Live Online) .

Please contact our partners at Emeritus at [email protected] , +1 315-982-5094 or +1 315-277-2746 for a personal conversation to learn more.

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“At Columbia Business School, we teach value investing to our MBA students and to executives. These courses have been extremely popular and are always overbooked. That’s why we created this online program so that people across the world can learn how to become a value investor.”

Hear from Faculty Director Tano Santos about the program.

Our approach to this program is to teach the core value investing concepts and then take the learners through in-depth case studies where they will apply these concepts. Key components include video lectures, case studies, and application exercises, so the methods are put to use with real-world company examples. Every two weeks, participants learn a new set of concepts and have multiple opportunities to apply the learning.

The program includes the following modules:

Module 1: Value Investment Foundations, framework, and introduction to asset value: overview of the valuation approach and calculating asset value

Module 2: Earnings Power Value The methodology to identify and buy securities priced well below their true value

Module 3: Strategic Analysis Understanding the value of scale economies and barriers to entry

Module 4: Magna International Case Study Valuation exercise for automotive market in the aftermath of the financial crisis

Module 5: Growth and Value Estimating future earnings and accounting for growth using Walmart as an example

Module 6: Amazon Case Study Calculating the value of a high-growth company in dynamic industry segments

Module 7: Risk Management Managing the risks of individual stocks and portfolios through proven financial and management strategies

Module 8: John Deere Case Study Using the value investing approach to evaluating the attractiveness of John Deere

Value Investing is appropriate for executives at all levels who want to refine their understanding of value-based investing principles for professional and personal use.

Individual investors and portfolio managers will benefit from learning the value investing methodology, uncovering opportunities that others miss. Beyond that, the analytical approach teaches critical thinking about growth and profitability, valuable for all corporate decision makers.

Columbia Business School Alumni and up to four of their colleagues are eligible for a 25 percent tuition benefit for this program. More on the Alumni Tuition Benefit .