Episode 9: Integrated Research, Xref and Mailbag

There’s a lot of distance between broad, abstract investing concepts and placing actual trades with your hard earned. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer makes a good attempt at focusing the investor’s attention on the things that matter, and putting it in a way that feels a bit more actionable. It’s basically a book about ‘moats’, as Buffett would call them, […]

Polynovo has enjoyed a spectacular run in 2019, with the share price rising from $0.56 at the start of the year to a high of $2.66 on the back of rising sales in the US and entry into the ASX200. But in recent weeks the share price has languished, dropping nearly 40% in just over a month. So the question […]

Herbert Stein, an American economist, once observed that if something cannot go on forever, it will stop. That’s hardly a groundbreaking insight. But just because something is self-evident doesn’t mean it’s widely understood. Indeed, much of modern economics and finance is predicated on the belief that the future will largely mirror the past. To be fair, that’s not a terrible […]

We recently caught up with Dalrymple Bay Infrastructure (ASX:DBI) CEO Michael Riches. The conversation reminded me of a neat little rule of thumb for valuing dividend stocks. If you’re someone who likes your dividends, it’s a handy addition to your investing tool kit. It’s called the Gordon Growth Model, and the simple version tells us that a stock’s total expected return is […]

Company earnings drive share prices over the longer term. More specifically, earnings per share, or EPS, does. It’s the great attractor that ultimately pulls prices along. You won’t find a single example of a company, ever, that has compounded its stock price over decades without also compounding EPS. It just doesn’t happen. That’s why EPS should sit at the centre of […]

They say stocks take the stairs up, but the elevator down. That is, gains are steady and incremental, but losses tend to be sudden and sharp. That’s generally been true for billing software developer Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN), though earlier this month the share price seemed to catch a rocket: Igniting the boosters was news that Hansen had acquired Canadian catalog […]

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