I’m pleased to announce the next date for our StockSlam event in London. It will be on the 9th July at WeWork Aviation House near Holborn from 6:15pm until 8:30pm.
It’s free to attend and open to everyone but we do need you to register.
Registration is…
WTI $44.43 -$1.27, Brent $47.34 -$1.26, Diff $2.91 +1c, NG $2.56 n/cOil priceThe oil price headed back downwards yesterday and with equity markets reacting badly to a number of economic stats that has carried over into Asia and Europe this morning. The…
Population aging will no doubt be amongst the most important demographic trends that affect us as we progress through the 21st century. This is likely to be good news for companies like Shire (SHP) and GlaxoSmithKline. Demand for healthcare should be s…
Despite their popularity, long history and the potential offered for compounding returns tax-efficiently it is surprising that according to anecdotal evidence there are only around 100 ISA millionaires in the UK out of a total of 24.3 million people wh…
Morning all!
Empresaria ( £EMR ) – 68p – £33m – PER 5.5
H1 Trading Update – Revenue up 6%, on course to deliver FY PBT in-line with market expectations.
Looks perhaps fairly valued here on a 2 Year view considering the Net Debt, Yield and Growth. Based…
Am I an assassin or a rabbit, a raider or connoisseur?I have just finished one of the best investment books I have read in a long time; it contains some great little gems, which I hope will improve my returns. One never stops learning; I continually st…
Good morning, it’s Paul here.
I hope everyone is coping alright with the extreme heat this week. My apartment is unbearably hot at the moment, so I had to abandon work yesterday by mid-afternoon.
Let’s start today with an interesting results statement …
Last year I noted that blending a strategy designed to include cheap stocks with rising stocks could be the ‘ultimate market strategy’. The evidence that Value amp; Momentum are excellent bedfellows is utterly compelling. The two strategies are complem…
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Good morning, it’s Paul here.
I hope everyone is coping alright with the extreme heat this week. My apartment is unbearably hot at the moment, so I had to abandon work yesterday by mid-afternoon.
Let’s start today with an interesting results statement …
Good evening/morning, it’s Paul here.
Let’s start off with a couple of stragglers left over from Monday’s RNS.
Idox (LON:IDOX)
Share price: 29.4p (down c.14% yesterday, at market close)No. shares: 415.5mMarket cap: £122.2m
Half year report
IDOX plc (…
During the late 1960s a young Canadian city analyst called David Dreman lost much of his personal wealth by investing in glamour stocks. Ten years later, he was running his own investment firm, which at its peak was handling $22bn of client cash. Learn…
Does anyone know how to report site issues? I’m using the ‘new site’ and one of my portfolios shows all my closed trades regardless of me toggling the “Show Closed Positions” button on and off like a loony (functionality works fine on some portfolios).
Good evening/morning, it’s Paul here.
Let’s start off with a couple of stragglers left over from Monday’s RNS.
Idox (LON:IDOX)
Share price: 29.4p (down c.14% yesterday, at market close)No. shares: 415.5mMarket cap: £122.2m
Half year report
IDOX plc (…
While all the recent talk has been about the rising price of soft commodities, notably wheat, an even greater problem surely surrounds the worldwide shortage of potable water. Although the world isn’t short of water per se (annual human and animal cons…
I’m pretty excited this week. I’ve got a completely new company to look at. The business in question operates in a defensive sector where the SIF fund is seriously underweight – healthcare.
I should point out that Medica (LON:MGP) floated on the LSE Ma…
Investing strategies that target so-called ‘growth’ companies have emerged this summer as some of the best performers of all the approaches we track at Stockopedia. And despite August being a usually quiet month for the market, the recent share price m…
Some traders use a Relative Strength Index (RSI) range to identify trend and RSI extremes to signal turning points. How long should they require that RSI remain in range, and how often should they require that RSI recapture a momentum threshold? In his…
WTI $43.04 +17c, Brent $46.17 +5c, Diff $3.13 -12c, NG $2.21 -12cHAPPY THANKSGIVINGOil priceOil traded fairly quietly and was headed for a down day with WTI touching $41.72 and Brent $45.03 when the EIA stats and the earlier than usual rig count data c…
Three years ago, James Montier, renowned economist, analyst and behavioural investing expert (then working in equity research for Societe Generale), issued a note now famous in investing circles that lent support to short selling. At the time, he felt …
Over the past two years Stockopedia’s scoring and ranking of every company in the market has turned up some inspiring results. Shares with the greatest exposure to the key factors of Quality, Value and Momentum have performed very well on average. In f…
Good evening/morning, it’s Paul here.
Let’s start off with a couple of stragglers left over from Monday’s RNS.
Idox (LON:IDOX)
Share price: 29.4p (down c.14% yesterday, at market close)No. shares: 415.5mMarket cap: £122.2m
Half year report
IDOX plc (…
Getting started in the stockmarket
Having taken the decision to invest directly in the stockmarket, investors face a plethora of tough questions about how to build and manage an investment portfolio. In the past, these perceived complexities have ofte…
Pittards (LON:PTD) is a ‘premium leather and leather products’ brand, based partially in the UK and partially in Ethiopia. They seem to make a pretty broad range of products, with ‘technically advanced’ leathers being a common phrase in their annual …
Good morning,This is the last report before the long weekend, so I hope everyone enjoys the break.Paul is updating us on Gattaca, and I’m writing the rest of the comments.By the way – Paul updated yesterday’s report so that it now includes Norcros (LO…
Good morning, it’s Paul here.
Apologies for last week’s poor service from me. Let’s get this show back on the road.
Learning Technologies (LON:LTG)
Share price: 93.8p (pre market open)No. shares: 667.8mMarket cap: £626.4m
Half year trading update
Lea…
In reviewing the new version of Stockpedia I believe I have found a few errors. How am I to report them?
For example I can”t find Excel download facilities, Help, Portfolio list has extra not held stocks on list.
Good morning. The big news this morning in the small caps world is the suspension of trading in Silverdell (LON:SID) shares, which is said to be pending an announcement. One of the two announcements this morning says that the suspension is “pending cl…
Telecom Plus (LON:TEP) (trading as the Utility Warehouse) supplies a wide range of utility services (gas, electricity, fixed telephony (calls and line rental), mobile telephony and broadband internet) to both residential and business customers. The co…
Today, I have some good news for the Stockopedia community – mobile access is here. If you’ve been frustrated that you can’t access your favourite research platform easily when on the go, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.
We’ve completely redesigne…
