Investment Strategy
Readers can now buy the 2019 Global Opportunities Investment Report: This report looks at 30 international markets, and compares their growth, debt, valuations, stability, and currency strength to give investors insight on where to allocate their money globally. 6 out of 30 countries scored a "strong" rating overall, meaning that they … [Read more...]
A large portion of the world's most successful and famous investors have been value investors, meaning that they buy cheap out-of-favor companies (aka "value stocks") and prosper as those companies continue to perform fundamentally well against market consensus. For this to work, either the company remains cheap and goes on to spend money on … [Read more...]
A great company doesn’t necessarily make a great stock pick, and a troubled company doesn’t necessarily make a bad stock pick. That’s because in addition to analyzing the quality of the business and the expected earnings and cash flows it may produce, investors need to consider the price they’ll pay for it. Regardless of how popular a growth … [Read more...]
There are a lot of investment calculators and retirement calculators online, but from what I've seen most of them are too-simplistic and overly-optimistic. Many of them suffer from the same two common shortcomings: They don't take into account inflation, which is devastating to exclude. They don't calculate investment income; just … [Read more...]
There are all sorts of ratios and metrics that investors can use to determine whether a stock is undervalued relative to the investment returns it is expected to produce. The most commonly-used one by far is the price-to-earnings ratio, often referred to as the P/E ratio. This article takes a look at the popular P/E ratio, how it's … [Read more...]