Price is Paramount
Sunday August 31, 2003
Finding a company with excellent financials and brilliant management is not enough to guarantee investing success. Although these attributes are vitally important in selecting stocks for your portfolio, the price ... Read More
Call it research...
Monday August 18, 2003
Even vacations can be an excellent time to scout for investment ideas! I just returned from Disneyland, and it proved to be a great source of potential investment ideas. ... Read More
A word on extraordinary events...
Thursday August 14, 2003
Many times annual reports contain extraordinary, one-time items that changed the reported earnings. Most of the time, an investor should ignore these extraordinary events because they don't have a ... Read More
Scripophily
Friday August 8, 2003
Scripophily is the practice of collecting stock and bond certificates. One of my favorite sites on the topic is scripophily.net. Depending upon what they have available at the ... Read More
The 3 Types of Investment Risk
Friday August 1, 2003
Every investment decision you will ever make faces the possibility of three very different types of risk - business risk, valuation risk, and force of sale risk. I wrote ... Read More
RedEnvelope Going Public
Friday August 1, 2003
Red Envelope, one of my favorite online retailers, announced Friday that is going public. According to Reuters, WR Hembrecht and Pacific Crest Securities are handling the underwriting. The ... Read More