Rule One Investing Blog

Yesterday, I discussed if Apple’s stock was going to increase. Well, after looking at the charts I decided to purchase some stocks. I woke up and saw that the price was around the same as yesterday, good.
So I put in a limit order at $129.10 and left for work. Got to work [...]

Today COO Tim Cook announced Apple’s (AAPL) Intention of selling 10 million IPhone’s this year (that’s a whole bunch of Iphones!).
As we know I’m a huge fan of Apple and the company in general as I discussed after the big Apple stock drop. I think they have everything that qualifies as a “bang on” [...]

Today KSwiss (KSWS) released the fourth quarter report. KSwiss reported fourth-quarter net income of $0.6 million, or $0.02 per share, compared with $10.7 million, or $0.30 per share, a year earlier. So, definitely a drastic decrease from last year. However, being the optimist that I am I really [...]

Lowes (LOW) released it’s fourth quarter report today with some interesting news. Normally when a company releases a statement saying “lower then last years quarter earnings” the stock decreases. However, because the market has drastically undervalued these stocks they expected even worse news. Therefore, the “lower earnings” were better then expected, according [...]

In my last article I talked about how KSwiss’s current stock price is currently below the margin of safety. Therefore, it’s important to delve deeper into this company immediately. As soon as you find a stock below the Margin of Safety I think it’s important to analyze the company to determine if it’s [...]

Sorry it’s been so long that I’ve posted. I have some other web endeavors that are currently taking up more time then usual. Luckily, they’re starting to wind down and I can finally get back to this blog. Fortunately, rule one allows us to get busy with other endeavors once [...]

In the past two articles I’ve discussed Creating a Meaningful Stock list and Analyzing Sports and Recreation Stocks. In this article, I’m going to analyze the moats and on the remaining companies on the list.

Sports

Nike (NKE)

Moat - Definitely! Who doesn’t wear Nike nowadays.

Sketchers (SKX)

Maybe. They provide contemporary footwear for young [...]