Investors new to stock analysis might intuitively think that high dividend stocks are “better” than low dividend stocks. After all, if you were to invest $10,000 into a piece of a company, wouldn’t you prefer to own a company where the share of profits paid to you in cash were $400/year rather than $100/year, or […]
Not a month has passed in the past three years when I haven’t had at least some conversational debate on the value vs growth styles of investing. I often emphasise the importance of not seeing value as the opposite of growth (it is just as possible to buy growth at a reasonable valuations as it […]
I recently found some charts on this tweet thread worth checking against some of my earlier posts on investing with a value tilt. These are similar to my earlier chart about forward 10 year investment returns versus on CAPE ratio, and can be summarized in the title of the first chart “Long term, valuation is […]
40 years ago, in 1979, BusinessWeek published its now infamous cover “The Death of Equities“, after one of the worst decades for US stock investors over the past century. 20 years ago, in 1999, the Nasdaq was still soaring on the back of a .com technology stock bubble just as famously burst the following year. […]
Perhaps second to the absolute question of how to make money in the markets, I am next most often asked if and how it is possible to “beat the market”. When asking “how to beat the market”, one also needs to answer two parts of that question: “what do you mean by ‘the market’?”, and […]
2019 is a good year to start off with a country valuation dashboard, given how most of 2018 was a story of US stocks outperforming most other countries’ stock markets, at least until December. Despite last month’s correction, US stocks remain relatively expensive compared to most other countries’ markets, with the US S&P 500 still […]
One of the worst mistakes beginning investors often make is to try and choose top performing mutual funds based solely on past performance. While past performance can be a useful indicator of how a fund invests and what it invests in (high risk and return vs low risk and return), it is all too often […]
“Buy a low cost, passive index fund, and hold it for the long term” is probably one of the most mainstream pieces of investment advice circulating over the past 40 years. While I agree this is a better solution for most busy investors than the high overhead, high fee, and high turnover investment products that […]
For the third factor in this series, I wanted to highlight two of the most “classical” factors for classifying and selecting stocks: size (large vs small) and cheapness (growth vs value). These factors were perhaps most famously identified by academics Eugene Fama and Kenneth French, and popularised in the 3×3 grid used by Morningstar to […]
Buyback yield is one of the top factors I look for in stocks of companies I buy. Buyback yield can be thought of one of at least four components of total shareholder return, the others being book value growth, debt reduction / deleveraging yield (familiar to anyone who has paid down principal on a mortgage), […]