Valuation is just for dummies? Is investing all about hot tech stocks? Let me show you why valuation still matters and why it’s important to people like me. Here are two stocks that are making money in this market with good fundamental cash growth.
Google Finance Portfolio is Dead – Use This Instead
It’s official.
Google Finance is killing their portfolios feature, in the next week or so.
For a Google Finance Portfolio alternative, check out this post.
What Has Worked in Investing?
As the market continues to climb, it’s easy to look for new ways to invest and potentially get off course.
Despite how well you are doing, there’s always the temptation to look at what others are doing and kick yourself for the ones you’ve missed.
I mean, check out what Amazon and Microsoft has done.
Amazon is up 47% YTD and Bezos is the richest man in the world again.
Microsoft is up 44% this year.
Why People Are Wrong About Wal-Mart
“Wal-Mart will go to $100”.
“Wal-Mart is inexpensive and it is the inexpensive alternative to Amazon.”
I’ll share real reasons for why Wal-Mart (WMT) is inexpensive through a unique perspective experienced over the past 6 months.
Best of September Curated Investment Links
“Now with Sept. in the rearview mirror, investors are entering what has collectively been the best 3-mos period of the year for stocks over the last 20 years. Using the monthly seasonality of the Dow Jones Industrial Average over the last 20 years, the Dow has averaged a gain of 1.96% in Oct.
October has generally been considered the most volatile month of the year, but over the last 20 years, investors have seen positive stock market prices 7% of the time during this Halloween month.”
Economic Moat Stocks and Competitive Advantages
What You’ll Learn
– Why moats matter
– What makes a moat and how it is created and widened
– What isn’t a moat and what does not add to moat
– PDF notes
Best of August Curated Investment Links
August 2017 has been a difficult time for so many in the US.
Hurricane Harvey destroyed Houston and thousands of families have to piece together what they have left and figure out how to restart.
My heart goes out to anyone impacted by this.
At Old School Value, we kicked butt in August. We pushed our latest update to Old School Value and we have already moved onto our end of year phase to make OSV even better.
Xmas is Here Early. Buckets of OSV Online Upgrades.
We run a very lean and tight shop at Old School Value and we conclude August with a bang.
We’ve got a long list of upgrades to share with you that you’ll be excited about.
Let’s go.
Calculating Time Weighted Return Portfolio Performance
What You’ll Learn
– Why you should use Time Weighted Returns
– Portfolio performance examples and how to do it
– 2 different methods we use
The OSV Stock Portfolio Tracker Feature
A visitor favorite is the free stock portfolio tracking spreadsheet using Google Sheets. For 90% of people, it covers most of what you need.
OSV Online app now has its own portfolio feature.
It’s finally here.
