Mark Collier

REITs: Spreads as Wide as a '70s Necktie

Lowest != most attractive.

This column is like a written version of CNBC. All bottom calling all the time.

It's a Great Time to Be a Value Investor

All of these "bottom fishing" or "value" articles fall into the exact same trap: Your stats are entirely reliant on future performance looking like past performance (i.e. for dividend yield you need the dividends to continue in the same fashion -- FAR from guaranteed).

Most of the other articles focus on P/E ratios, which E is totally unknowable making the entire "value" argument moot.