Here I refer to the core portfolio as the portfolio of stocks which you have carefully done your homework through PhD Fundamental Analysis and you would be holding for quite some time to reap the benefits of capital appreciation. Below is a sample portfolio. How many stocks should you hold? What is a good number? Well, this is not an exact Science but if there are too many stocks, you might ...
“It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.” – Warren Buffett This is one of the quotes by Warren Buffett that I like a lot. It took me some time to internalize this and fully understand the meaning behind and it is perhaps best explained through the following picture: We have defined wonderful companies as companies that pass our ...
Facebook has a tremendous Network Effect economic moat. with enviable billions of users on their family of very popular apps like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Whatsapp. I have profited from investing in this gem but has since exited all positions given the recent tech sector share price run-ups. With the recent days' rout of the tech companies led by Apple (which happens to be very over-valu ...
Some of us have heard or learned about Peter Lynch’s PEG valuation formula but many of us probably took the formula at face value, at least that was what I was told when I was taught the formula. To recap for all, Peter Lynch is a famous fund manager and author of One Up on Wall Street and he proposed the PEG valuation model, especially for growth companies. The formula relates to a company’s PE ...
There are a few ways to determine which e-commerce company in the world is the biggest, by revenue, market capitalization or gross merchandise volume (GMV). GMV refers to the total value of all items sold on the online platform. Alibaba has surpassed the milestone of USD 1 trillion in GMV for the financial year ended 31 March 2020, and is undoubtedly the biggest e-commerce company by this measu ...
