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.
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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.
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In our Top 5 this week, we look at asset classes over the last decade, discuss the problem with listening to stock market pundits, and uncover the investing virtues of relaxing. All this and more…
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Chart of the Day: Using DDM to find the implied growth rate for 131 companies in Thailand. True Corporation has the highest implied growth rate and Thaicom has the lowest.
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Chart of the Day: Using DDM to find the implied growth rate for 2,000 companies in Asia. Hong Kong has the lowest implied growth rate, followed by Singapore. Indonesia has the highest implied growth rate, followed by China.
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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.
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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.
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In our Top 5 this week, we consider how paradoxical markets can be, reveal the largest 10 economies in the globe in 2030, and look at certainties in 2019. All this and more…
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Chart of the Day: Looking at all non-financial companies globally, grouped by size. Sales growth in line with previous peaks, except for Small companies. Small companies haven’t seen much sales growth since 2012.
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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.
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