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TWEEDY, BROWNE COMPANY L.P.
What Has Worked in Investing
(continued from preceding page)



Table 24:
The Consistency of Investment Returns for Low Price to Cash Flow Companies as Compared to High Price to Cash Flow Companies for 1-Year, 3-Year and 5-Year Holding Periods, 1968 through 1990


                                                                              Holding Period


Year of
Portfolio Formation

1968

1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1 Year
% Better (Worse)

2.2%

12.3

13.5

(7.8)

15.5

2.1

(0.7)

26.2

17.4

19.3

 4.8

(16.8)

3.9

20.3

(3.2)

20.4

19.2

1.4

10.8

9.3

9.2

(6.3)

3 Years
% Better (Worse)

28.7%

19.5

24.6

23.1

31.9

38.2

49.6

81.6

67.3

24.7

(10.6)

(10.2)

74.6

65.0

33.8

33.2

55.2

32.2

33.9

17.0



5 Years
% Better (Worse)

47.4%

41.0

42.8

47.8

69.3

84.6

134.3

131.0

146.8

76.4

27.2

27.4

122.5

158.4

125.3

85.1

88.8

57.6









As Table 24 indicates, the low price to cash flow stocks outperformed the high price to cash flow stocks in 17 of the 22 years, or 77% of the time. For three-year hoIding periods, the low price to cash flow companies beat high price to cash flow companies in 18 out of the 20 three-year periods. For five-year holding periods, the low price to cash flow companies were a better choice than the high price to cash flow companies every time.

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