the Pragmatic Investor

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Hi Mark

I have been using your Value Investor and Pragmatic Investor for about a week now. I don't think this is a technical question because there is nothing wrong with the programs.

First of all I did find a source to download all market symbols to load into the Pragmatic Investor.

I read your post about your spam problem so that is probably why I didn't get a reply from customer service.

If I enter MSFT into PI I get a rating of 8.5, price $28.43 & fair value of $37.92. Now if I analyze MSFT in VI I get a rating of 7, price $28.43 & target of $23.891. It would help me to know why there is a difference. It seems obvious but I would like to hear what you have to say.

Most of my holdings are Mutual Funds and when I run a mix of stocks and MF through PI analyzer it doesn't give a rating for the MF. I understand why so that is not my question. Now when I check for the asset allocation the program does do an asset allocaton for both the stocks and MF. If the PI doesn't handle MF in the analyzer is the data produced in the asset allocation valid?

I would like to develop some confidence in these results so your help would be a great help.

Thanks

Larry G