Can What Goes Up, Go Higher?

20 Aug 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
One of the greatest myths of the stock market is that stocks that go up cannot go any higher and thus, have to come crumble back to Earth. Well, the truth is that the Newton’s Law of Gravity does not apply in the stock market. There are examples abound of companies that keep on going higher in share ...
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Profits Rise At Cash-rich Vicom

8 Aug 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In Singapore, car owners not only have to pay for the right to buy a car through a Certificate Of Entitlement (COE) they also have to get their cars inspected regularly to ensure their vehicles are in tip-top condition. Therefore, many car owners should be familiar with VICOM (SGX: V01), the largest ...
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Why Investors Do Not Need To Sell To Earn

30 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Tell me, how absurd do you think I am if I said that it’s possible for an investor to double his money in the stock market without selling a single share? You’ll likely think I’m nuts. But I assure you, it is possible. Let’s take the following three shares as an example. The second column on the table ...
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One Useful Way to Look at a Company’s Earnings

29 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
The Price-Earnings ratio of a share is a widely used metric in the determination of its intrinsic value. It has a simple mathematical formula – price per share divided by earnings per share – and is usually taken as a proxy for the market’s future expectation of the company. But despite the ubiquity ...
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Want a 20% Dividend Yield? Here’s How to Get It

29 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Ask any investor on the street if they’ll want a share with a dividend yield of 20% and you’ll likely get hit with eager responses like ‘What’s the ticker symbol? Tell me, quick!’ Now, turn around and ask them if they’re willing to wait 10 years for the 20% yield to materialise and the response should ...
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Why Expensive Shares Can Be Cheap

22 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
In investing, one of the most common axioms would be to ‘buy low, sell high’. The premise is simple – you buy a share that’s cheap, and you sell it when it’s expensive. And for most investors, the idea of a cheap share is probably one that carries a low valuation, such as a share that has a low Price-Earnings ...
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Three Growth Shares Sharing Their Earnings With You

10 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Most investors would associate growth shares with fast growing companies that retain most of their earnings due to the need for funds to fuel future business expansion. As a result, it’s common to assume that growth shares have low pay-out ratios, defined as a company’s dividends divided by its earnings. ...
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Why Investors Should Avoid Looking At the Market

4 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
It’s been almost six years since the Straits Times Index (SGX: ^STI) peaked at 3,876 on 11 Oct 2007 before the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 started and torpedoed everything in its path. The STI went on a downward spiral all the way till it bottomed on 10 March 2009 at 1,456 points. Since then, ...
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Invest Like A Girl

2 Jul 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Research, time and again, have shown that women are better investors than their testosterone-driven counterparts. I’m a male and I’m not afraid to say that females trounce us as investors, most of the time. Show me the evidence, you may ask. So here it is. In one of the studies by Barclays Capital and ...
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The Downside of Doubling-Down

25 Jun 2013 - The Motley Fool Singapore
Leverage. It can be a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it allows you to make lots of money using very little money. On the other hand, if you are not prudent enough, it can make you lose your pants. 200% Leverage I just came across a book called Lifecycle Investing, co-authored by two Yale professors, ...
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