NCAV Stocks: Learn From Ants On How To Be A Better Value Investor

NCAV Stocks: Learn From Ants On How To Be A Better Value Investor by Victor Wendl, Wendl Financial

Stanford University Professor Deborah Gordon spends her days analyzing the behavior of harvester ants that populate the dry desert of Arizona. She’s observed how an ant colony manages its water consumption in search of seeds, the ants’ primary food source. Water is in limited supply for a desert ant, so it’s important they balance their conflicting goals of foraging for seeds and consuming water in the process. Looking for seeds and conserving water is accomplished by having only a limited number of partially blind ants patrolling above the surface in search of food at any one time. If one of the patrol ants stumbles upon some seeds, it heads back to the nest and tells all of its friends. By touching the antennae of other ants huddling near...