Archive for the 'Learning' Category

29 Feb

Bought Apple Stock

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 [...]

26 Feb

KSWS Fourth Quarter Analysis

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 [...]

25 Feb

Lowes Fourth Quarter Report - 2007

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 [...]

24 Feb

Margin of Safety of Stocks

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 [...]

17 Feb

Determine Moat of Sports Stocks

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 [...]

16 Feb

Don’t get discouraged by Rule One

Have you finished reading Rule #1 Investing by Phil Town? Have you started searching for a stock that’s under the MOS? Are you starting to get frustrated that you haven’t found anything that meets the Rule #1 requirements?
Here’s a few tips and tricks to ensure that you don’t [...]

11 Feb

Creating a Meaningful Stock List

This is part two of my posts on the three circle exercise.
In the first part I did the exercise of writing things that I’m passionate about, am good at and spend my money on. From the results I found that companies with meaning would be companies that deal with sports, travel, cooking. [...]