The One idea that made Value Investors successful investors… Part 2

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!This is a follow up from the previous post: https://www.investment-in-stocks.com/investment-in-stocks/the-one-idea-that-made-value-investors-successful-investors-part-1 Moving on, we will use a real life example to calculate the Intrinsic Value of a Stock and will add in more real life variables using this example. Example of Calculating Intrinsic Value of Walmart (WMT) First of all, we will take a look at …

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The One idea that made Value Investors successful investors… Part 1

Many years ago, Benjamin Graham (teacher of Warren Buffett) coined the term Value Investing, the methodology for profiting from the stock market was very speculative and based on guessing the direction of the market. But after Benjamin Graham created ONE special idea, Value Investing was born. What is that one special idea that gave birth to Value Investing? The idea is that each stock has a numerical Value, which is …

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Financial Freedom 101 – Quit to Win

Just this past Saturday, I was having my baby girl’s full month party and had the chance to catch up with 2 friends from my university. They are 2 attractive ladies (not as attractive as my wife of course), and one of them is already engaged while the other one remained single. The engaged lady brought her fiance along. While we were teasing the single lady about how far she is …

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Facebook IPO – Like or Dislike?

Finally, the long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) of social media giant, Facebook is happening this week. Is it a good to go as an investor to invest in FB? Following all the discussion we had about invest in stocks as businesses, we have to ask ourselves 2 key questions: 1) Will we be confident in the sustainability of Facebook’s Business Model? 2) Is Facebook IPO priced at a reasonable price …

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Analyzing a Stock’s Economic Moat using STEP Analysis (Part 2)

We will continue our discussion using STEP analysis to determine if a stock has an Economic Moat that can survive different aspects of a market. This is a follow up from the last post. https://www.investment-in-stocks.com/investment-in-stocks/analyzing-a-stocks-economic-moat-using-step-analysis-part-1 In our previous post, we have discussed the first 2 factors of STEP, namely Social Cultural and Technological. This post we will look at asking questions regarding Economic and Political Factors.

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Analyzing a Stock’s Economic Moat using STEP Analysis (Part 1)

Lets move further indepth into understanding how to analyse a stock to decide if we would want to invest into it. First things first, Stocks are Businesses! Remember we are not speculating if a stock price will jump up, we are analyzing the stock as a business to see if this business is worth investing in. The first question we want to ask about this business is if it has …

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Could You Identify this Investment Opportunity From the Streets?

“Wisdom shouts in the street” ~ Proverbs My dad first directed me to this proverb when he asked me to be humble and learn from others. I find this verse very interesting because even some of the greatest investors in the world state that they find investment opportunities from “Main Street” instead of “Wall Street”. I was reading an article in “Today” entitled, “One Country, Two Economies” and the center …

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Just 15min to create your budget plan!

Hi peers, One important step to successful financial stewardship is to plan how much you need. This is call a budget. If you have not already created a budget, can I invite you to take part in this 15 min activity. Follow me through and by the end of the post, you will have your budget before your eyes! Get ready a notepad or an excel file. Do note that …

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Milestones for Financial Success

“The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty, surely to poverty.” ~ Proverbs Now we have a vision of achieving  financial success, I am going to suggest these following milestones as a checklist to work towards achieving financial success and becoming good stewards. Step 1: Accumulate Liquid assets worth 6 month of monthly expenses for security and purchase insurance to cover accidents and …

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I am committed to be Rich, but don’t expect me to do anything…

I would like to share with you 2 stories. Story 1: In 2008, due to the lack of exercise and overeating, i began to gain some weight. I decided to go on a regime and within 7 weeks, I loss weight and gain the body i am satified with.   My friend (lets call him Hanson), asked me how he too can achieve the same results. I quickly sat down with …

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