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What is Margin of Safety?

What is Margin of Safety?

‘Margin of safety’ is the difference between a stock price and its intrinsic worth, or value.

So if a stock is trading at  $70 in the market, and you calculate the company’s intrinsic value as $100, you have a margin of safety of  $30 (100 minus 70). In other terms, the stock is trading at a 30% discount to the company’s intrinsic value.

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