
Founder of Gotham Capital (1985) and Managing Principal of Gotham Asset Management; long-time adjunct professor at Columbia Business School
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius is the standard text on special-situations investing, and the Magic Formula books turned quantitative value into a method ordinary investors can follow.
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The magic formula: buy cheap stocks with high returns on capital, mechanically.
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Where to find mispriced stocks: spinoffs, mergers, bankruptcies and restructurings.
“Joel Greenblatt wrote probably the best book ever 'You can be a Stock Market Genius'.” — Dan Loeb
Source: Loeb calling it probably the best book ever written on investing
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Subtitled Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How to Find Them; expanded edition 2025.
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The 1972 original that Mayer updated; buy right and hold on.
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