Over the last two of month’s I’ve outlined a series of ten questions which I use to help me avoid yield traps. This month I’m going to interrogate a company using those questions so that you can see them being used in a practical setting. The company in question is KCOM Group (LON:KCOM), a FTSE…
I have asked the CEO of Optibiotix (LON:OPTI) to investigate one of the world’s most serious afflictions, male pattern baldness, now that the health supplements area appears to have been cracked… Given how much has been happening at Optibiotix since the end of 2015, it would appear somewhat churlish of the market not to regard…
Valuing shares is a tricky business. That’s why over the decades equity analysts have developed a range of different ways to estimate how much a company could be worth. Well established approaches such as discounted cash flow and earnings multiples have been popular for almost a century and remain commonly used methods for valuing businesses.…
When it comes to investing, it seems as though timing is everything. Even the best stocks can have their bad days. And the ‘dogs’ of the index can enjoy periods of stunning share price growth. Therefore, finding the right stocks at the right time seems to be the difference between success and failure in investing.…
There are few things on the stock market quite as enticing as a drug developer which reveals itself as having made significant progress. This is the position which has just been revealed at Redx Pharma (LON:REDX). Although it has only just been announced that Redx Pharma is to make a clinical trial application for its…
Here’s an experiment for you to try. Ask 10 random people on the street if they’ve heard of ‘Global Switch’ (www.globalswitch.com) and you’ll likely be confronted with a vacant expression. You may well find a similar response if you mention ‘Anaplan’ (www.anaplan.com). Yet both are ‘unicorns’, an expression in the tech arena to describe a company…
Keurboom Communications whose sole director is a Greg Rudd, 51, has been fined £400,000 for 100m nuisance calls. Keurboom is in liquidation such that the fine does not get paid. This has led to hand-wringing on a big scale. Apart from the fact that the fine should be capable of being stuck on a director…
I do not normally follow up on “winning” calls, as one usually ends up acquiring the appearance of being a nasty hybrid between a used car salesman, an estate agent and a politician. But it has been a good week for a Mysquar call I made seven days ago. The reason for covering the technical position of…
The Brexit talks-about-talks have started badly. What is the chance that there will be no deal at all? Are investors heading for the rapids…? Come dine with me On 26 April Theresa hosted dinner at her well-appointed home in Downing Street for Jean-Claude (a louche Belgian gentleman whom she had met on a caravanning holiday…
There is an interesting shuffling of the fundamental pack as far as Angus Energy (LON:ANGS) is concerned, it has been announced today. It is difficult to know whether to laugh or cry on behalf of investors in the South of England oil & gas story, where it may be said that there has been something…
