Blue Chips & Stocks To Watch!

Best of breed offshore earners

Long-suffering Aussie investors have only to gaze afar in admiration at the outperformance of share markets in other countries.  While the ASX 200 has yet to regain its pre-GFC status, the US Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and Japan’s Nikkei Index have soared. A March 2018 article appearing in Business Insider Australia looked at a…

Foreign investing: Global Consumer Staple Stocks to Watch

They’re the brands we use every day, they’re the colourful staples that compete for our attention on the supermarket shelves, but they’re also part of an investment sector with major potential. The consumer staples sector captures companies selling everything from toothpaste to chewing gum, from chocolate bars to fish-fingers. Garry Laurence, portfolio manager of the…

Global Strategy: Emerging Markets the Best Bet

At first glance, the current environment remains rather favorable for equity investors. Profitability is strong and continues to rise around the world, interest rates are still very low in most countries and valuations don’t yet look excessive, for the most part. But after an exceptionally positive 2017 and a rip-roaring start to 2018, investors have…

The Banks: Time to Buy, Sell, or Stay Away?

In the last few months bank stocks have joined resources in dragging down the ASX.  All four big banks plus the two major regionals have stumbled some 7% over the past month. Claims that the Big Four banks are overvalued has been repeatedly voiced since late 2012. During this time bad news stories have abounded…

6 High-Tech Gaming Stocks

Some investors turn to gaming stocks because of their defensive qualities. The digital age has ushered in a subset of gaming stocks whose business models include high-tech gaming equipment and software and internet access platforms for gamblers. So we will skip the big name casino operators and focus instead on some names that incorporate technological…

20 Stocks With Over 6% Dividend Yield

Gone are the days were you can shove your cash in a term deposit and be done with it. Rates have come back, which means that high-yielding shares are back on the agenda. According to the latest Westpac/Melbourne Leading Index, slower economic growth is in store for the remainder of 2013 and into 2014; 2.5%…

Dividend Stability in 5 Top Performing Income Stocks – page 2

  JB HiFi (JBH) is a favorite stock for short sellers.  The stock has 19.16% short interest and appears to permanently sit at the top of the list of the most shorted stocks on the ASX.  Its share price is down 20% year over year but a ten year time horizon looks much better.  Here…

Stock of the Week – wealth manager performing despite the crisis

Stock: IOOF Holdings Limited Stock code: IFL Share Price: $6.45 (as at close 17/06/11) P/E Ratio:  13.66 (Sector P/E 13.71) Market Cap: $1,482,000,000 Broker Buy Recommendations: Morningstar, $7.85 target (17th June 2011, share price was $6.45 that day) Patersons Securities (14th June 2011, share price was $6.46 that day) RBS Australia, $7.96 target (16th May…

Dingoes Of The ASX 50

Stockmarket investors who don’t want to go to the trouble of sifting through stock tips or poring over charts for under-valued trading opportunities can always fall back on a ‘mechanical’ strategy, where the investor simply buys stocks that fit a selection criterion, or set of criteria. It could be the stocks with the lowest price/earnings…

Top Down Strategy – Stocks To Gain From Flood Recovery

Think of top down investing as a “big picture” strategy.  The big picture is the global market and all it encompasses.  If you think of the global market as a forest, if it looks green and healthy, you enter the forest looking for the healthiest trees.  When you find a grove of healthy trees, you…