Stocks

With its stock down 26% over the past three months, it is easy to disregard Central Asia Metals (LON:CAML). It seems that the market might have completely ignored the positive aspects of the company's fundamentals and decided to weigh-in more on the negative aspects. …

Key Insights The considerable ownership by private companies in Hongkong Land Holdings indicates that they collectively have a greater say in management and business strategy Jardine Strategic Limited owns 53% of the company Institutions own 13% of Hongkong Land Holdings Every investor in Hongkong …

Learning Technologies Group plc (LON:LTG), might not be a large cap stock, but it received a lot of attention from a substantial price movement on the AIM over the last few months, increasing to UK£1.45 at one point, and dropping to the lows of …

Investors can buy low cost index fund if they want to receive the average market return. But if you invest in individual stocks, some are likely to underperform. For example, the Argo Investments Limited (ASX:ARG) share price return of 24% over three years lags …

In order to justify the effort of selecting individual stocks, it's worth striving to beat the returns from a market index fund. But if you try your hand at stock picking, your risk returning less than the market. We regret to report that long …

The worst result, after buying shares in a company (assuming no leverage), would be if you lose all the money you put in. But when you pick a company that is really flourishing, you can make more than 100%. For example, the Dicker Data …

We're definitely into long term investing, but some companies are simply bad investments over any time frame. We don't wish catastrophic capital loss on anyone. For example, we sympathize with anyone who was caught holding Wagners Holding Company Limited (ASX:WGN) during the five years …