If you are buying a share in a company and you anticipate holding it for a number of years, what you buy and the price you pay will determine how much money you make. From a value investing perspective you want to buy companies that are profitable and have a durable competitive advantage. I analyse …
As an investor with a long term perspective it is important that I investigate the fundamentals of the business before buying its shares. The goal is of course to mitigate risk and generate wealth in the long term. When I first started out in my investing journey I would use a value investing approach and …
The goal of a company’s management is to maximize its return for shareholders and a share buyback generally increases shareholder value. A share buyback, also known as a “share repurchase”, is where a company repurchases its own shares in the open market. You can think of a share buyback as a company investing in itself, …
In share investing a ten-bagger is a share that has appreciated in value 10 times. A ten-bagger is something most investors strive for. A single ten-bagger can turn a mediocre portfolio into a spectacular one. Small cap shares offer higher growth potential than large cap shares and because they are smaller, small cap share prices …
Time IN the market, rather than trying to time the market, is key. Stock markets are very difficult to predict, so if you are constantly buying and selling, you can expose yourself to greater risk. Here’s a wonderful strategy that I personally implement. It’s called Rand Cost averaging.How it works is you budget a fixed …
What is investing? At its most basic, investing is about putting your money to work. If you have a R100 note and you leave it under your mattress, nothing much will happen to it. If you put it in the bank, it will earn a bit of interest, but not nearly enough to make up …
In this blog post I share some insights of the bare basics to get an investment portfolio going of your own. I can’t stress enough of the vital importance of starting investing as soon and as early as you possibly can! So lets start with the bare basics… What is a share?If you own a …
