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A handful of stocks are setting new highs despite turbulent markets
Thursday 08 Sep 2022As investors debate whether the next move in markets is up or down, it’s worth noting that there are a group of stocks which are quietly making new 52-week and multi-year highs and even a few making new all-time highs. While some are involved in special situations, such as bid talks, and some are...
Explaining SIPP tax relief: the big details you need to know
Thursday 01 Sep 2022One of the key benefits of pension saving is the ability to get upfront ‘tax relief’ on your contributions. Tax relief just means that your contributions are free from income tax. The amount of tax relief you are entitled to will depend on the income tax band your pension contribution comes from. A...
Predators and prey: the businesses which could be ripe for a takeover and those hunting them down
Thursday 01 Sep 2022Geopolitical ructions and rising interest rates have seemingly failed to stem the appetite for global takeover activity according to analysis from consultants Earnest & Young (EY). And the UK financial services industry recorded a seven-year high of 136 deals in in the first half of 2022,...
What high gross margins tell investors about the merits of a business
Thursday 01 Sep 2022When Adobe (ADBE:NASDAQ) reported second quarter figures in June 2022 it unveiled earnings that beat forecasts, reporting $3.35 versus consensus estimates of $3.31. So far, so what? The market shrugged the results off – the share price dipped 1.2% to $360. Yet this was the latest in a long run of...
The one thing that famous investors Terry Smith and Warren Buffett seek when picking stocks
Thursday 01 Sep 2022Seasoned investors should be familiar with Alfred Rappaport’s view that ‘profits are an opinion, cash is fact’, yet a great deal of company analysis still relies on traditional measures of profits such as EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) and EPS (earnings per...
For sale: good time to buy housebuilders on the cheap
Thursday 25 Aug 2022Recent UK house price surveys seem to show the property market is beginning to cool, so should investors steer clear of the housebuilders or does their poor share price performance this year mean the worst is already factored into their valuations? In this article we look at the survey data,...
How India’s strong 2022 performance compares longer term
Thursday 25 Aug 2022The Indian stock market has outperformed the wider emerging markets space so far in 2022, just as it did in 2021. While this follows on from a period of underperformance, on a long-term view, the showing of Indian stocks compares favourably with both the developed and developing world. According to...
Emerging markets: Views from the experts
Thursday 25 Aug 20221. Latin American markets rebounded in July, with Chile, Brazil and Peru among the leading performers, while Mexico and Colombia lagged. In Brazil, a smaller-than-expected increase in consumer prices in the first half of July, raised expectations of the start of a downward trend in inflation...
4imprint investors made 20 times their money in 10 years
Thursday 18 Aug 2022It’s not often we get to write about UK companies which have seen their shares multiply in value by a factor of 20, especially when the company concerned makes what might be considered ‘disposable’ or discretionary goods. Yet, given the sudden contraction during the pandemic in corporate...
Discover the biggest dividend yields in the FTSE 350
Thursday 18 Aug 2022Bedevilled by soaring inflation, rising interest rates, possible recession and major disruption to global supply chains, global stock markets have fallen hard this year. A consequence of falling share prices is ballooning dividend yields, pushing double-digits in some cases in the UK. Is this a...