Stock quick hits: China Mobile (CHL) and General Mills (GIS)
Stock Quick Hits #1 Welcome to stock quick hits! A series of posts where I look at stocks that seem vaguely appealing at the moment. Stocks like China Mobile! I’ll do about thirty minutes of research and analysis on each stock. That means some background, a look through their financials and a quick calculation in my DCF spread sheet to establish a fair value. If a DCF isn’t applicable, then I’ll use some other metrics. Then I’ll set a price alert at which point I’d want to revisit the stock and do a deeper dive and/or consider a purchase. Full disclosure, there’ll be some stocks and industries I’m not 100%…
Portfolio Review – March 2018 – The Half Million Dollar Portfolio
The Half Million Dollar Portfolio? Less than $500 separated me from 500k before the market volatility in February shaved 16k off my total. However, since then, the market has turned around. We’re now back to a positive return for the year and things are finally looking good for me to cross that threshold. I might now have a half million dollar portfolio! The market turning positive is a welcome sign to many investors. It reminds me a bit of what happened in February of 2016. Volatility spiked due to fears around China, oil prices and uncertainty around rates. Just like last month, that caused stock prices to fall. In the…
Time in the Market’s book club – Deep Value and The Millionaire Next Door
Finance books are COOL Finance books are on the menu! Deep Value and The Millionaire Next Door are the first books in my book club! Finance is the topic at hand and will likely be for the foreseeable future. I read a good amount of books about investing. My problem is that don’t have many people who would be interested in hearing what I think of them. There’s where you come in gang! Hopefully we can get a discussion started on some of these books. Every now and then I’ll drop a post here about the things I’ve read. Maybe these thoughts will help you in your investing journey or…
