2 Companies Possessing Warren Buffett’s Favourite Business Trait

29 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Wouldn’t it be great to know what billionaire investor Warren Buffett looks for when it comes to him evaluating a business for investment? Turns out, he has given very clear indications that it is a business’s pricing power that he rates the most. According to Bloomberg, this is what Buffett said when ...
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3 Sturdy Shares That Have Excelled

15 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In investing terms, a “sturdy” share for me is one that has a rock-solid balance sheet which is flush with cash and has little or no debt. A strong balance sheet can go a long way in helping a company tide over rough economic climates and can even provide firepower for a company to make value-accretive ...
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2 Shares Near 52-Week Highs: Can They Go Higher?

10 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Many people have the misconception that when a stock touches or reaches close to its 52-week high, there’s a barrier to how high it can eventually climb. However, what they miss is that any share that had recorded gains in the range of hundreds or even thousands of percent would have to exceed many record ...
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Best of the Fool: Top 3 Stories of the Week

5 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Here are three of the most popular articles at The Motley Fool Singapore this week. 1. Be Careful – You Might Have All Your Eggs in One Basket Unknowingly Theoretically, it’s easy to diversify in the share market by buying an index tracker – by doing so, you would own as many number of different shares ...
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3 Shares to Hold through Thick and Thin

2 Jul 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In the USA, there’s a peculiar fund called the Voya Corporate Leaders Trust that has never sold a single holding since its inception in 1935 unless a share “went bankrupt, merged, or [got] spun-off”. Back then, its founders had built a portfolio out of shares that had done well even during the Great ...
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Does MoneyMax’s Latest Acquisition Make Sense?

25 Jun 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
MoneyMax Financial Services (SGX: 5WJ), one of our city-state’s largest pawn broking chains, is expanding into Malaysia. It announced last Friday that it will be investing RM15.63 million (around S$6.1 million) for a 51% stake in a network of eight Malaysian pawnshops which are mostly located in the ...
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2 Fascinating Insights about Booms and Busts in Singapore’s Share Market

23 Jun 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Earlier today, I shared an interesting chart (reproduced below) that tracked how expensive or cheap Singapore’s share market is by looking at the number of shares selling below their net current asset values (NCAV). That is, shares that had market capitalisations lower than its total current assets sans ...
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This Market-Beating Fund Has Never Sold a Single Holding: What Can We Learn From It

9 Jun 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Voya Corporate Leaders Trust has a history of excellence. Over the past 35 43 years between 1979 1970 and 2013, it has turned every $10,000 investment into $1.11 million. Comparatively, the S&P 500, a broad measure of the American share market, had grown the same initial investment into only $749,764 ...
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Vicom: A Consistent Dividend Growth Share with an Above Average Yield

6 Jun 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Vicom (SGX: V01) might be a small fish in the big ocean of our financial markets with a market capitalisation just north of S$520 million. But, it’s a company that will likely be familiar to most drivers here in Singapore – the company runs seven out of the nine vehicle inspection centres here. Depending ...
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Vicom’s Secret to Beating the Market

30 May 2014 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Over the past 11 years since the start of 2003, Vicom’s (SGX: V01) share price has advanced by 844% to S$5.90. If gains from reinvested dividends were factored in, the company’s returns would have ballooned to an even more impressive 1,846%. By way of comparison, the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) had ...
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