Potentially looking even cheaper than my first selection on Monday but with many more risks, is Tandem Group (TND), a designer, developer and distributor of a range of leisure goods. Core products include the bicycle brands Claud Butler, Dawes and Falcon, as well as table sport business Pot Black, and golf equipment company Ben Sayers.…
Value investing is a famous investment style often religiously followed by both professional and amateur share pickers alike. Its core focus is upon buying shares which are trading below their so called “intrinsic” value. Trumpeted for almost 90 years now, initially by the father of value investing Benjamin Graham, the technique can help identify some…
There are three ways to make money from investing in shares: capital gains, dividends and perks. The latter are never more than modest and are becoming increasingly rare these days. Dividends can provide a useful stream of income, but they are unlikely to make you rich. Capital gains, however, are the raison d’être for most…
Internet bulletin boards can be a good source of new investment ideas. They regularly draw highly informed investors and interesting insights. But they also have their downsides. Prone to attracting the more passionate retail punter, popular bulletin board stocks can often experience extremely volatile price movements on the back of certain comments. And then there…
It’s a long running joke that no one has ever bought a full priced sofa. With 50% mark downs, mega discount deals and snap sales the furniture retailers always seem to have promotional offers on the go to attract the punters. Nevertheless, there is still money to be made in the sector for investors. The…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But this one must be worth at least a million. This glorious image was created by technology owned by an interesting AIM listed company, Scientific Digital Imaging (SDI), which after several years of plodding along now looks like it might be about to take off. The…
Currently two weeks into a self-imposed January booze ban my newly refreshed brain got thinking about the economic impact caused by the many drinkers who abstain from alcohol at this time of year. “Dry January”, as it is commonly known, is in fact a relatively recent phenomenon, with the trademark being registered by the charity…
As featured in the December issue of Master Investor Magazine. A book review by Richard Gill, CFA With another year soon to be upon us investors are welcoming the return of an annual classic, The UK Stock Market Almanac. Author Stephen Eckett has once again updated his seminal handbook in order to guide investors and…
Investors hoping that the 4.9% losses seen from the FTSE 100 in 2015 will be reversed quickly have been disappointed so far this year. The blue-chip index has fallen by over 300 points already as contagion from a stock market plunge in China has spread, caused by the ever present growth slowdown fears. In reaction,…
Just after Christmas last year investors got excited with tracking products business Starcom (STAR) as the firm announced a tie up with a Porsche dealership in Germany to supply one of its products. On the back of the deal the shares surged by 258%. But since then they have come back down to near all-time…
