Amongst many shares we sold last week was one of our favourites – Quindell. At one point it was one of our greatest successes, having more than doubled our money, before being put firmly in reverse and dwindling to 40% of our original investment thanks to what is suspected to have been a co-ordinated short selling attack by Gotham City Resear ...
If we had to choose just one stock to be able to invest in, at the expense of every other share in the world, it’s not a hard decision which one we’d choose. We have a clear favourite. That share is Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS). Now Disney is not great on dividends/income. Typically they pay 1% per year and UK holders like us are also ...
It’s hard to feel sorry for someone with a net worth of $60 billion, but 84 year old ‘Sage of Omaha’ Warren Buffett, perhaps the world’s greatest and most famous investor, has lost a massive $750 million on his investment in Tesco. It’s a lesson to all investors that any of us can get it wrong, even the very best. Mr B ...
As reported last month, we sold most of our UK shares before the Scottish referendum as a safety measure to a possible Yes vote. As it turns out, even with a no vote being the result we would by now have lost a few thousand pounds had we held onto those shares as the market has taken a slide since as evidenced by a fall in the FTSE 100 from around ...
One of our main share purchases in the past few weeks has been Redde PLC (LSE:REDD). Redde is a very similar company in some ways to the much maligned Quindell but with two massive differences – 1) a cracking dividend of nearly 10% and 2) cash collection that Quindell shareholders can only dream of. If Quindell could improve their cashflow to ...
Well it’s been a tough old month so far on the stock market with shares suffering from fears over the tapering of quantitative easing (QE), the growing ISIS and ebola threats and the ongoing Tesco debacle. On the plus side it is throwing up some great value picks, one of which we will be discussing today that has already given us a 12% paper ...
I think one of the toughest parts of investing, even when you’ve been doing it for a while, is knowing when to sell a losing share. The old saying goes ‘cut your losers, run your winners’ and broadly it’s good advice. Many traders set very tight stop losses, 10% being quite common. I dont think a ‘one size fits allR ...
The Naked Trader (AKA Robbie Burns) is a journalist and writer who has become quite popular in the last few years due to his website, book and seminars. Robbie follows a similar kind of trading style to us – he picks stocks that have good fundamentals and offer Growth At a Reasonable Price (GARP) and holds them until they reach a target p ...
Of all the many useful statistics when it comes to analyzing shares, the Price to Earnings Ratio (also known as PER or P/E) is perhaps the most important. It provides a basis for valuing stocks and shares and deciding if they offer good value, are fairly priced or over priced. In its essence the Price to Earnings Ratio is a measurement of how muc ...
Quindell’s 2014 Q3 results were released today and despite increased revenue and cashflow being reported, investors were disappointed by a cut in full year guidance and the share price has subsequently dropped a further 7.3% to 143p. Quindell Results / 2014 Q3 Trading Statement – More Woe For Beleagured Quindell Shareholders It’s ...
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