Posts by Andrew Stotz
8 Value Investing Icons
Value investing is the idea that you can achieve superior investment performance through buying stocks at prices that appear to be below the “intrinsic value” of the business. The investor tries to estimate the intrinsic value of a business through a variety of means such as price-to-book, price-to-earnings, tangible assets value, dividend discount value, or free cash flow value.
Read MoreStart-Up Entrepreneur Runs out of Investment ‘Juice’
My Worst Investment Ever: My partner and I founded a business producing and delivering raw juices for detoxification. We had felt that this product would be a winner because a lot of people were signing up quickly once we had explained the many health benefits of raw-juice programs.
Read MoreAll Asian Markets Fell in 2018
Chart of the Day: Overall, all Asian markets fell in 2018. Besides Thailand, Hong Kong, and China, Asian currencies weakened against the USD. The two worst performers in 2018 were the best in 2017.
Read MoreBeing the Money Man for Friends
My Worst Investment Ever: My worst investment decision was an investment in a start-up company. I did not invest because I thought the company had a good idea but because I liked the people who were working there, and I didn’t feel I could say “no” to them.
Read MoreLack of Commitment Can Deal a Death Blow to an Investment
My Worst Investment Ever: I have invested in a couple of businesses that were unsuccessful, but my worst investment ever was in my own start-up business. My team had won a start-up competition a few years back. Our company was a web-based enterprise, but it failed for several reasons.
Read MoreConfessions of a Crypto Lemming
My Worst Investment Ever: My worst investment was when I jumped on the crypto-currency bandwagon. Even though I made some money out of it, I would personally consider it to be the worst investment I have made so far.
Read MoreInvestor Paid the High Cost of Inertia
My Worst Investment Ever: If something is great, and you use it and love it, and everyone loves it, maybe you should invest in it. I started using Amazon.com early on, say around 1998.
Read MoreVMC: Increase Your Impact with the Valuation Master Class
When I started my career, I boldly told my boss that I wanted to be voted the number one analyst in Thailand. 14 years after I set that goal, I was finally voted the number one analyst in Thailand!
Read MoreVMC: Increase Your Productivity in Valuation
What a crash! From the number one position at the number one foreign broker to unemployed, all due to a lack of efficiency. I eventually joined another firm at my prior position as a bank analyst. It was the best move I ever made.
Read MoreVMC: Gain Confidence in Forecasting and Valuation
I said, “you are right, I will fix that tonight, but that mistake does not change my buy argument for that stock and the sector overall.” My confidence allowed me to stop his argument and get back to my message.
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