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This is How You Can Beat the Market Without Fail
2020-01-09
Introduction With this article I am going to present several ways that investors, especially retired investors, can beat the market without fail. However, what I will be presenting may not be what you are expecting, particularly if you have a narrow notion of what beating the market means. In other words, one of my primary […]
Investing Is Hard Enough: Here Is How to Avoid Making Obvious Mistakes
2019-12-18
The Key to Avoiding Obvious Mistakes Understanding how to value a business is the key to avoiding making obvious mistakes when purchasing or selling common stocks. When you know what your investment is worth, the market cannot take advantage of your gullibility. When you don’t know what your investment is worth, markets can easily influence […]
The Right Way to Value Growth Stocks: Part 3
2019-12-11
Introduction In part 2 of this series I focused on how to value slow and moderately growing businesses. In this article, Part 3, I will shift my focus on how to value faster growing companies (growth stocks). My definition of a fast grower (growth stock) is one that has consistently compounded earnings at 15% per annum or […]
Principles of Valuation Part 2: Price Is What You Pay, Value Is What You Get
2019-12-03
Introduction “Price Is What You Pay. Value Is What You Get.” The venerable investor Warren Buffett has a real knack of putting complex concepts and ideas into simple and easily understood terms. In my opinion, his quote, “Price is what you pay. Value is what you get” is one of the more profound and important […]
Answering the Important Questions: When to Buy or When to Sell A Stock: Part 1
2019-11-27
Introduction As a seasoned and grizzled veteran of the financial services industry for now going on 50 years, the most commonly asked questions I have received, and still do to this day, are: when to buy and when to sell a stock? Moreover, these very questions are the mother of how and why I have […]
$CSCO Cisco Systems Inc: Quality, Dividend Growth & Attractive Valuation
2019-11-22
Introduction Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) is one of the highest quality large-cap technology companies in the world. After being overvalued for most of 2019, this high-quality once pure growth stock, now dividend growth stock, has come into fair value. Therefore, I offer the following FAST Graphs analyze out loud video to illustrate why I think […]