Today, on the subject of dividend strategies, we’re going to look at the idea of “arbitraging the dividend calendar”. As we’ve discussed elsewhere, a stock is typically valued on the basis of its future cashflows which, in turn, gives rise to an expect…
With service outages and investigations casting a shadow over the social media giant, the stock is unlikely to reach new highs in 2019.
In the late 1950s a Hungarian dancer called Nicolas Darvas spent 18 months making more than $2 million in the stockmarket. In less than a decade he’d gone from knowing nothing about investing to refining a trading style that stunned America’s financial…
Readers of the Seventies hippie bestseller, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” may remember long, interminable digressions into the nature of “Quality”. For those that haven’t read it, the book describes the author’s journey with his son by mo…
Opinions are divided on its merits of technical analysis (TA) but, for many investors, TA of share price movements is a vital tool in deciding when to buy and sell stocks. Amongst the best known indicators used by the technicians is the Golden Cross. D…
We’ve discussed in the past some of the more familiar value/bargain screening criteria that can be derived from Benjamin Graham’s earlier work, e.g the NCAV and Enterprising Investor Screens.
What may be less known to you, though, is some quantitat…
Analyst, economist and behavioural scientist James Montier is the architect of a three-pronged approach to shorting stocks that he called the ‘Unholy Trinity’. But he’s also behind a useful accounting test that he developed in the context of shorting c…
LONDON (Alliance News) – Earthport PLC on Thursday said that FTSE 100-listed bank Barclays PLC lowered its interest in the company to "below the …
In Brief
An investing strategy of buying prior winning stocks and selling short prior losers based on the empirical observation that Investments exhibit persistence in their relative performance. As George Chestnutt wrote back in 1965: “Which is the be…
While the PE Ratio may be the classic equity investors valuation ratio, with reams of investment literature showing that buying low PE Ratio stocks is an extremely profitable strategy, not everyone wants to spend their stock picking days digging solely…
In Brief
An investing screen based on buying stocks that are close to their 52 week high (and/or selling stocks that are close to their 52 week lows), particularly in industries whose stock prices are close to their 52 week highs (or lows). Similar t…
In Brief A value investing screen in the Graham school based on Schloss’s focus on stocks that are hitting new lows and those trading at a price lower than their book value per share. Background Walter J. Schloss studied under Ben Graham in 1935 and th…
The FTSE 100’s downward trajectory only intensified towards the end of the week following the European Central Bank (ECB) unexpectedly taking …
The UK benchmark index has climbed in London in today’s session, holding steady after MPs rejected the no-deal Brexit option, and with parliament …
The activist investor will serve as strategic adviser to Aurora Cannabis Inc.
Apparently the package is “consistent” with what’s found in the upper reaches of the FTSE 100, which amounts to saying well they’re all at it so we …
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Revolution Bars
Here are my overdue notes from a recent meeting with management of Revolution Bars (LON:RBG) (in which I hold a long position). The meeting covered the points in the recent interim statement, with…
Good evening/morning, it’s Paul here.
Revolution Bars
Here are my overdue notes from a recent meeting with management of Revolution Bars (LON:RBG) (in which I hold a long position). The meeting covered the points in the recent interim statement, with…
Adobe stock has rallied into resistance less than eight points under the 2018 high and needs a strong quarter to add to gains.
Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 planes will remain grounded until a software update can be installed, the FAA says
Herbert Diess used a phrase that echoed “Arbeit Macht Frei”, a maxim emblazoned on the gates of Auschwitz.
The U.K.’s FTSE 100 UKX, +0.59% climbed by 0.7% to 7,211.96, after finishing up 0.1% on Wednesday. On Wednesday evening, U.K. parliament …
The FTSE 100 was up 0.7% at 7,208.56 as sterling fell 0.8% against the dollar to 1.3237, having surged to a nine-month high on Wednesday after MPs …
FTSE 100 closed higher Thursday while US stocks were lacklustre as traders await yet another vote in the House of Commons over Brexit.
The FTSE 100 rose today after the decision by parliament to reject a no-deal Brexit. The index gained 38 points, or 0.5 per cent, at 7,196 this morning, …
The FTSE 100 was up 0.7% to 7,209.15 by midday as sterling retreated from recent highs amid ongoing uncertainty over Brexit despite last night’s no …
LONDON (Alliance News) – The FTSE 100 strayed into the green on Thursday despite a slow start to the session following some weak Chinese data …
Shares in financial services group Legal & General (LSE: LGEN) have enjoyed a strong run in 2019 so far, rising more than 20%. Personally, I’m pretty …
Clothing chain says its co-founders’ plan to “supercharge” the company would be “extremely damaging”.
FTSE 100 pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline (LSE: GSK) is heading for a break-up. Chief executive Emma Walmsley will oversee the creation of two …
