Good morning!A very busy morning in RNS-land, with a lot of “small” updates, including 3 relating to my own portfolio holdings.I don’t know how far I’ll get through this list, but the list is:Goco (LON:GOCO)B.P. Marsh Partners (LON:BPM)DP Eurasia NV…
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I know that some of my best investment returns have come about not from some amazing insight into what the company was going to do, or what the economy was going to do. Instead, they’ve come from combining solid and stable companies, with an attract…
Small cap recruitment companies have soared in price over the past 12 months, with bullish investors attracted by their exposure to an improving economic outlook in the UK and beyond. Yet despite the leaps in price, a number of these shares are still v…
Good morning!London Value Investor ConferenceThis is the Rolls Royce of investor conferences, and I’ve been fortunate enough to attend for the last two years, and will be there again this year, next week in fact, Wed 20 May. There are only 6 tickets le…
Jim Slater’s Zulu Principle strategy of buying growth stocks at reasonable prices (GARP) has earned a popular following among UK investors. Over the past year Stockopedia’s own Slater-inspired Zulu screen has returned 40.5%, making it one of the best p…
Looking for a sector that was unloved, I first thought of housing and I then thought of car retailers. Although the sentiment is considerably more bearish in housing, there were too many companies to write anything useful. For people interested in the …
Last week in Part 8, we looked at Trends, Support amp; Resistance. We take those ideas one step on this week, into the concept of patterns on price. Many think pattern analysis is created from a mystical land and disregard it without a second look! The…
“Investment is the art of the specific and selection is far more important than timing.”Of the stalwarts of stock market investing, Jim Slater’s enduring appeal to UK private investors perhaps owes the most to his obvious affection for high quality but…
There’s a maxim in investing that you should cut your losers and run your winners. But the problem is that individual investors tend to do the opposite. Research shows that profitable stocks are often sold too soon, while losing stocks are held too lon…
Hi All,I’m new to the software and am wondering if it’s possible to chart / table ROE, EPS and similar metrics over a 10 year period? Any assistance would be much appreciated.Regards,JBurton
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I added a section on Ten Entertainment (LON:TEG) late last night to yesterday’s report. That report now includes Superdry (LON:SDRY), Equals (LON:EQLS), Alpha FX (LON:AFX), and Ten Entertainment (LON:TEG).
For today, we have:
Sosand…
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For Paul’s report today covering Revolution Bars (LON:RBG) and £G4M, click here.
For yesterday’s report, click here. Yesterday’s report includes all of the following:
Churchill China (LON:CHH)Indigovision (LON:IND)Staffline (LON:STAF…
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A very busy morning in terms of the supply of updates. I will need to be very tactical about this!
I’m not covering all of these, but am mentioning them for completeness:
RM (LON:RM.) – interim resultsScience in Sport (LON:SIS) – trading…
News this week that Imperial Brands is ditching a long held policy of hiking its dividend payout by 10 percent every year didn’t come as much of a surprise.
For many years, the blue-chip that used to be known as Imperial Tobacco has been a stalwart in…
We’re now more than half way through 2019, so now seems a good time to take a look at the performance of my rules-based SIF fund over the first half of the year.
I think that the results so far this year can best be described as mixed. Although the por…
People who are happy are more confident and expect to make more money by trading, and anticipate taking lower risks in doing so. This result ought to be enough to depress most people, but most people are optimistic and don’t depress easily. This is e…
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I will scroll back and look at events from earlier in the week, once I’ve covered today’s news.
Thomas Cook (LON:TCG)Audioboom (LON:BOOM)Miton (LON:MGR)Flowtech Fluidpower (LON:FLO)GYM (LON:GYM)Now let’s catch up on two stories from …
Last week in Part 3, we looked at line charts and bar charts. This week, we take charting a step further by looking at a concept introduced by the Japanese: Candlestick charts.It is debatable who developed the candlestick concept. Many attribute Munehi…
Below is a weekly summary of our research findings for 7/8/19 through 7/12/19. These summaries give you a quick snapshot of our content the past week so that you can quickly decide what’s relevant to your investing needs. Subscribers: To receive …
…evidence from simple tests on a limited data set suggests that investors using monthly simple moving averages to time the stock market should prefer (avoid) a calculation cycle anchored just after (a few days before) month ends.
The post Optimal Cyc…
The Inflation Forecast now incorporates actual total and core Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for June 2019. The actual total (core) inflation rate for June is lower than (higher than) forecasted.
The post Inflation Forecast Update appeared first on CX…
Can investors beat a typical active U.S. equity mutual fund via a small portfolio of periodically re-weighted equity exchange-traded funds (ETF)? In their February 2019 paper entitled “Are Passive Funds Really Superior Investments: An Investor Pe…
How reliable and variable are the most widely accepted long-short factor premiums across asset classes? Can investors time factor premium? In their June 2019 paper entitled “Factor Premia and Factor Timing: A Century of Evidence”, Antti Ilm…
Is there a common optimal set of ranking (lookback) interval, holding interval, weighting scheme and skip-month rule for long-short stock momentum strategies across European country markets? In her May 2019 paper entitled “Are Momentum Strategies…
Our mantra at Stockopedia’s is that good, cheap, improving stocks generally outperform expensive, deteriorating, junk stocks. We have therefore developed the QVM StockRank in order to highlight higher probability shares. This article provides an overvi…
Active fund managers argue that they can beat the market by picking stocks that do better than the average. Risk and liquidity issues are important factors to consider here but, as an exercise to test this thesis, it is interesting to look back and see…
Many investors focus on increases in earnings. Perhaps “focus” is the wrong word. It is more like “obsession”. There are commentators that point out, though, that it is not growth in earnings that is important, but return on capital. Growth in earnings…
Thanks to Twitter, I became aware of a thought-provoking FT article by Terry Smith on returns on capital. In summary:
The problem is that while fund managers who buy these low-return companies wait for the events which they think will change the sit…
I decided last week to follow Jim Slater’s example and relax my valuation criteria slightly. This left me with a choice of five stocks to consider adding to the SIF Portfolio this week.
If you missed last week’s article, I’m experimenting with reducing…
