Important facts to get right when choosing a stock
A little logic goes a long way in successful stock picking. It’s easy to get caught up in indicators and share prices and to overlook the most important facts to get right when buying any company. Purchasing a share involves taking part-ownership in a business. Think of it like buying a stake in the local…
Stock in focus – Coca-Cola Amatil
Company: Coca-Cola Amatil Limited ASX Code: CCLCurrent Share Price: $8.371 Year High/Low: $9.79/$6.65 Coca-Cola Amatil Limited (CCL) Operations Coca-Cola Amatil (CCL) is the Asian region bottler for the Coca Cola Company. CCL manufactures, sells and distributes Coca-Cola products throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The company’s portfolio of products includes carbonated soft drinks, mineral waters, other non-alcoholic…
PEG ratio gaining in popularity against the P/E, but beware of its flaws
A common method used to establish the best value for money when comparing shares in different companies is to look at their respective price earnings ratios. This ratio is defined as the current market value of a share in cents divided by its earnings per share for a year in cents. Other things being equal,…
What is the price/earnings ratio of the overall market?
By Nick Renton AM Share investors are no doubt familiar with the concept of the price/earnings ratio for an individual stock. This ratio is defined as the market price of a share expressed in cents divided by the earnings per share also expressed in cents. The ratio can be described as the number of years’…
The best stock in the market – stock screening software and how to use it
For investors who favour a fundamental approach to investing, there is plenty of help available from software programs that crunch the numbers they need – digesting and comparing companies’ reported sales revenue, cash flow, earnings, dividends, assets and liabilities. Programs such as Stock Doctor, Conscious Investor, Value Gain, Bourse Data and MetaMarket+ have made it…
Guide to analysing stocks – part 1
Academics and researchers have spent considerable time searching for the secret to making it rich on the sharemarket. The trouble for investors is that – when every supposed ‘expert’ yells from the rooftops proclaiming the secret to successful stock investing – it’s almost impossible to separate the researched theory from the pure sales pitch. For…
Measuring the strength of the Australian sharemarket
Most agree that the major ingredients required to herald a sharemarket crash are investor euphoria combined with an overvalued sharemarket; like a pressure cooker, as prices for stocks soar upwards, a market becomes overheated and the likelihood of a market crash is ever more present. Last week we looked at the fundamental reasons for why…
