Category: Value Investing

  If I could only buy five stocks for the rest of my life, Costco would be in the top five. I have wanted to buy Costco stock

Warren Buffett Style Portfolio Warren Buffett is one of the most famous investors of all time, and for good reason. This blog (and the rest of the internet)

  One of my favorite investing books of all time is Buffettology, by Mary Buffett and David Clark. In the book, the authors do an excellent job of

How many is too Many? How many stocks do you have in your portfolio? Should your portfolio hold a large or small number of holdings? It doesn’t help

I recently purchased a used vehicle off an auction site. The process was simple: I reviewed the cars currently on auction, identified the few that looked like good

The hardest part of investing in stocks for most business people, beginner investors, and intermediate investors is stock selection. The most popular options that you may be faced

When it comes to investing, I find that the simplest advice is usually the best one. Nobody puts it better than Terry Smith from Fundsmith:   “Buy good

In the 2007 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Report, Warren Buffett discussed the difference between great businesses, good businesses, and gruesome businesses.  Buffett summarizes it like this: Let’s break down

Just think about how much you could learn from someone who came from nothing and now has a net worth of over $100 million. How much would you

Since the start of the worldwide pandemic the U.S. government has poured trillions of dollars into the battered economy, hoping to avoid another depression. While this has kept

What if, as an investment opportunity, I offered you a stake in a beverage business that had one drink as their product and that the drink possessed a

You don’t have to search too far to find the many parallels that exist in successful businesses. Leadership, Culture, People; all are examples of things we find time

True Rags to Riches stories are actually few and far between. We often hear of the biggies; the Jeff Bezos’ story, the Bill Gates story, the Steve Jobs’

One of the keys to sound investing is having the right information. Its everywhere around us; we just need to know where to look. One of my preferred

We’re all looking for great businesses to invest in. Those companies that seem to defy the natural order; that succeed in industries or sectors where others quite simply,

“It may not be ‘cool’ or sophisticated to operate in a low capability field, but ‘contrast’ is optimised by being a super performer, in the weakest of fields.”

Many of the great Investors have left their mark on our investment world. Some have been innovators, others have been pioneers and all have been performers. And unsurprisingly,

When it comes to value investing – getting stock at cheaper prices than those of its actual value – there are multiple challenges that come into play. Finding

Outperforming the market is hard. Over the last five years, it was easy. Easy if you owned just one stock. The world’s largest. You just had to buy

When Howard Schultz opened his first coffee store in Seattle, he strove to replicate the experience of the coffee houses he’d visited in Italy; a place where people

Retailing is hard. Staying on top of the industry for decades is even harder. Particularly when the products you sell are technology based and always changing. Which begs

It’s not quite been a steady road, but since 2010, the dollar has strengthened by account of most metrics. Against the Euro, it strengthen significantly over the year

Value investing is a simple strategy at its core. Value investors select stocks that the market is underestimating for their intrinsic value. Have you ever wanted to buy

If there is one stock in America you could buy outside Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger’s advice is to choose Costco. He sits on the board. Not surprising Charlie

The economic calendar documents all the key pre-scheduled economic events from around the world. These outcomes are significant to investors, as they represent the macroeconomic health of different