This week, we cover off more earnings results, including Wisetech (ASX:WTC), BWX (ASX:BWX), Kip McGrath (ASX:KME), MSL Solutions (ASX:MPW) & Dicker Data (ASX:DDR). Plus, we talk macro and ask if Australia is headed for a recession…
This week, we cover off more earnings results, including Wisetech (ASX:WTC), BWX (ASX:BWX), Kip McGrath (ASX:KME), MSL Solutions (ASX:MPW) & Dicker Data (ASX:DDR). Plus, we talk macro and ask if Australia is headed for a recession…
As investors, we tend to spend a lot of time thinking about value. Or, at least, we should. The simple reality is that even if we buy shares in the world’s greatest business, we can still lose our shirt if we pay a stupidly high price. But what makes a price stupid? How can we possibly know what is reasonable […]
I bought my first shares in November 1985, the 40th anniversary is here!!—here’s what I learnt since, sometimes the hard way! Through the various cycles, events and characters, the journey and outcomes have been an intriguing, rewarding and interesting way to spend time. Below, I have attempted to avoid, firstly, pointing out stocks you should have bought, as there are […]
“We need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.” — Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes A great irony of economics is that the simplest, most fundamental of principles are often the hardest to accept. Probably because they can rub against our intuitions or, more often, our ideologies. Such impediments are common in many domains, but at least in […]
The concept of ‘value’ is core to investing. At one level, it’s a relatively straightforward idea, and one we intuitively understand. As investors, we are, essentially, trying to buy assets for less than what they are “really” worth. For us, the value is captured when the wider market recognises and corrects the mispricing. But there’s also value in something that is (somehow) perfectly […]
Extraordinary returns come from extraordinary mis-pricings. And those only happen when most people hold a deeply flawed vision of the future. The trouble is, the dominant view never feels unreasonable at the time. It usually seems obvious — self-evident, even. That’s precisely why so many people, including the seasoned pros, buy into it. And let’s be honest: it takes a […]