Value investors has just one objective and that is to analyze and unearth undervalued stocks that will give great returns in long term. There are two types of investors, one who always are in look for companies that has great growth potentials and another are value investors who look for undervalued stocks. Investors who are [...]

We invest money to make “money out of money”. The concept is to make $2 out of $1. Making money from money (that we have in our pocket). Investing is a tool that makes it possible to multiply our money into more money. The earning from investment can happen in two ways: (1)   Either someone [...]

People who invest beyond their circle of competence are not investors they are only gamblers. In finance term they are called speculators and in value investing term we can call them ‘Big Fools”. Value investing asks an individual to ‘know the business’ before buying their shares. By knowing the business what value investors does is [...]

Several financial analysts have used different methods of determining the intrinsic value of a business. You will get some very valuable quick-tips of calculating intrinsic value and some fully screwed-up suggestions. Starting form scholarly books to online contents, there are millions of written material that can guide you to calculate intrinsic value of a business. [...]

Let me give you a simple question, suppose you have bought a residential apartment worth Rs 50,00,000 and sold it for Rs 1,00,00,000. What was your net earning? A lay person will answer it the quickest and say that your net earning was Rs 50,00,000. Mathematically this calculation is not wrong, but unfortunately financial world [...]

To me there are little things more interesting in this world than shares investment. I love the process of investment and seeing my invested money grow is my motivation.  I have spent several hours to learn the process of shares investment and the more I see the more vast it looks. But still I enjoy [...]

This is a true case study on investment cycle of an investor who was then investing both in gold and stocks. This article will explain my readers how diversification of investment between stocks and gold proves to be an instant hit in moments of crisis. The case study is based on an investor who was [...]

I will not give you ideas on stocks  and funds in this article, but what I will give you here is the thinking power to answer this most valuable question of life, how to start investing? As a newbie it is always confusing to locate the starting point of the process of investing. Generally the [...]

First of let me tell you that high yield investments are backbones of any investing philosophy. If a high yielding investment is backed by consistency of yield then its like flying on cloud nine. This is one reason why value investors are such a big fans of high dividend yielding stocks of blue chip companies. [...]

In the financial statements of companies, EPS is perhaps the first parameter company’s fundamentals that attracts an investor. Lot of investors take their buy-sell decision on basis of EPS alone. Believe me, the companies knows this and hence they often produce EPS to you in a manipulated way. In this article we will see how [...]

Planning for investment is not as difficult as it may seem for the first time. One reason that shall drive you towards investing your hard earned money is the reward that you will have because of investing. Some may say otherwise, but I personally believe that age and volume is not a stumbling block when [...]

We as an investors are most up to date with the current price of stocks. But for us the most important data is future price of these stocks. Surely when it comes to future prices predictions and assumptions comes into play. In this case investors reviews the last 3/5 years financial reports of companies and [...]

The value of any asset let it be shares, bonds or even business as a whole can be measured by estimating the cash inflows and outflows. These cash flows would then need to be discounted at a rate which is appropriate. The value of bonds are most simple to measure. Government bonds has a fixed [...]

By Investing for long term & by avoiding overvalued stocks Not many people with agree with this statement but stock market volatility has many potential advantages for investors. I hope almost every one of us has climbed a merry go round for a ride. There are people who use the excitement and nervousness of merry [...]