Archive for July, 2007
Emerging Markets: India
Not sure if this is going to become the next post series, but I thought I’d take a break from the tutorials on stock analysis and take a look at broader investment topics – like international investing in emerging markets. Emerging markets particularly China and India have been all over the financial press over the [...]
read more »Value Screening
You might be able to do these stock screens in Yahoo! Finance, but I personally prefer to use the MSN Money Investment Toolbox. Unfortunately, the only way to get it is to use Internet Explorer. Go to an MSN Money Power Search and click the link for “Customize This Screen with our Deluxe Screener.” You’ll [...]
read more »Value versus Growth
In our last post, we discussed the strategy of attempting to piggyback famous investors, particularly famous value investors who participate in shareholder activism. In the post before that, I discussed simple methods of finding value stocks, but I don’t think the real definition of value investing (or at least my interpretation of it) has been [...]
read more »Follow the Big Boys
The analysis of companies is an understandably daunting task. You have to take into consideration financial strength and relative value. After performing all this analysis, there’s still no guarantee that the rest of the market will come to the same conclusions that you did. You can wax poetic all you want about possible catalysts, but [...]
read more »Applying Fundamental Analysis: Value Investing
As you may be able to tell from the focus of my recent posts, I’ve been bitten by the value bug. After suffering a string of losses as a result of poor discipline and a several poor trading weeks, I came to the realization that I would feel much more comfortable investing in stocks with [...]
read more »Financial Analysis: Liquidity Ratios
Last we mentioned fundamental analysis, we discussed profitability ratios, a way to measure how well a company makes money. Today, we look at liquidity ratios as a way to use financial statements to glean information on how well a company can pay its short-term bills. The three most common of these ratios are the current [...]
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