A lesson on absolute prices versus relative ones
You’ve been referred to this page by something saying “You can’t (or shouldn’t) use Close > 5.00” in a stock screener.
Imagine you are looking at a share of GoodStock (yeah, I know that’s a lame name for a fake stock!). It goes up and up, and up! …
Analyzing Apple
An Apple by itself
Is Apple a stock worth buying? Other people have discussed (at length) its “questionable” product decisions, such as:
- The touch bar
- getting rid of Touch Id in favor of using facial recognition
- Scrapping a whole ecosystem of connectors to push the “Lightning cable”
- Eliminating the headphone jack from the newest generation of phones.
The semiconductor industry is an important one, in fact, if it weren’t for semiconductors then you wouldn’t even be able to read this. So what exactly is a semiconductor, and why should you care about them? A semiconductor, in a nutshell, is a materials product usually made of silicon, which conducts electricity more than an insulator but less than a pure conductor, such as aluminum or copper.…
Monte Carlo Simulation
As investors, we all know that each investment we make comes with a certain amount of risk. We can decrease this risk by understanding all possible outcomes. Better yet, we can visualize each outcome through the use of a Monte Carlo Simulation. In a broad stroke definition – a Monte Carlo simulation allows for people to make informed quantitative decisions based on a range of possible outcomes.…
In my years of using Equities Lab as a quantitative investment tool, I have never lost sight of the core values of long term investing. Many of these values are in the teachings of Benjamin Graham and used by an idol of mine, Warren Buffett. Remembering this, no matter how much risk I take on in my portfolio, I always keep a subsection for value investments.…
Institutional ownership is something that is often associated with hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds. So what is it exactly? Well, simply put institutional ownership is the ownership stake in a company that is held by large financial organizations. Institutions generally acquire large chunks of a company’s outstanding shares and can apply considerable influence on its management.…
Investment Green Flags: PEG > 0
Continuing with our green flag series, today we are going to be taking a look at the PEG ratio, and how well companies perform when their ratio is above 0.
Though an excellent flag, it doesn’t mean anything on its own – especially if you aren’t familiar with a PEG ratio.…
Piotroski F-Score
We mention the Piotroski F-Score in a lot of our articles, videos, and even within a lot of our prebuilt screens. So, it poses the question, what exactly is the Piotroski F-Score?
Created by a professor of Accounting at the University of Chicago named Joseph Piotroski, the score is used to identify possible investments.…
Recession Protection
As people become more jumpy when it comes to the market, I decided to take it upon myself to build a screen that we could use in order to protect ourselves in the event that we do enter another recessionary period. Now, I want it to be known that I don’t necessarily believe that another recession is imminent; rather, I just like being prepared for any situation.…
The Stocks you pay for
The other day I wrote an article discussing my distaste for penny stocks and for how they are marketed as “the next big thing”, ruining thousands of people’s financial lives. Well, if you can’t invest in penny stocks, what can you invest in? How about we invest in stocks that, at an extremely basic level, are actually worth something?…