In a recent TSI Network poll, we asked site visitors whether if trust the advice they get from their stock broker. Aside from a yes or no option, we gave visitors a third choice: “I trade online through a discount broker.” Seventy-five percent of the poll’s respondents selected this answer.
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Now that the Olympic flame is out in Vancouver, the attention of the sporting world is starting to turn to the next winter games, in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.
That’s also true of the investing world, as companies line up to get a piece of the roughly $12 billion (Canadian) that …read more »
No matter what kind of investing approach you follow, we feel that you can improve your overall results — and cut your risk — by avoiding these 5 common investment errors.
1. Failing to follow a realistic stock market trading strategy: Some investors, particularly newcomers, plan to buy a few hot …read more »
To cut your investing risk, we recommend following our three-part system: Hold mostly high-quality, dividend-paying stocks, spread your money out across the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources; Consumer; Finance; Utilities) and avoid or downplay stocks in the broker/public relations limelight.
How “in-the-limelight” stocks can hurt your portfolio
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The p/e ratio (the ratio of a stock’s price to its per-share earnings) is one of many handy investing tools.
Typically, you calculate p/e’s using a stock’s current price and its earnings for the previous 12 months. The general rule is that the lower a stock’s p/e, the better. And …read more »
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We think investors will profit most — and with the least risk — by buying shares of well-established, dividend-paying stocks with strong business prospects.
These are companies that have strong positions in healthy industries. They also have strong management that will make the right moves to remain competitive in a …read more »
Over the years, we’ve recommended many stocks that have been taken over for big profits. In fact, some readers of our newsletters and investment services tell us that they never had a stock taken over at a profit until they began following our advice.
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More on the stock market strategy that helps us routinely spot takeover candidates a little further on. But first, here are just a few recent takeover targets we’ve recommended. All rewarded our readers with big gains:
A company’s takeover prospects are just one thing we look at when we choose stocks to recommend in our newsletters and investment services. An equally important part of our stock market strategy is looking for companies with what we call “hidden value” — hidden or widely overlooked assets.
By hidden value, we mean valuable assets that are not getting the attention they deserve from investors. When a company’s assets are wholly or partially ignored or hidden, the stock trades for less than it’s really worth, so you get to buy at a bargain price.
Companies that launch takeovers also tend to look for hidden assets. That’s why so many of our recommendations get taken over. Of course, hidden assets are no guarantee of a takeover, but they cut long-term risk, and make a takeover a lot more likely.
If a stock with hidden assets gets cheap enough, it attracts buying by value-oriented investors. Its low price may also trigger a takeover that otherwise might never have happened.
Sometimes, of course, hidden assets stay hidden for a lengthy period. But as long as a stock has more obvious appeal, such as long-term growth prospects, a reasonable per-share price-to-earnings ratio or an attractive dividend yield, you have what we call the best of all possible investment worlds: a heads-you-win, tails-you-break-even situation.
If it works out well, it can be extraordinarily profitable; if it works out poorly, you really won’t lose that much.
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