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What is a company’s profit margin and why is it crucial in 2023’s high-inflation environment?
In the high inflationary environment we’re in, investors will hear companies talk about margins. What are companies talking about? Why are…
Is investing in ASX international companies more challenging than domestic companies in 2023?
Investing in ASX international companies is eerily similar to investing in domestic companies. After all, you buy and sell shares…
Should you really ‘Sell in May and go away’? Here’s why we think that theory is nonsense
Have you ever heard of the saying ‘sell in May and go away’? It is probably better if you haven’t.…
How to find undervalued stocks? Here are 3 useful tools to help start your search
How can investors find undervalued stocks? It is a fine art, but it’s not impossible. In this article, we recap…
ROIC: How useful is this metric and which 3 sectors generate the highest returns?
ROIC, or Return on Invested Capital, is a financial metric used to measure a company’s efficiency in generating profits using…
The Baltic Dry Index: What does it track and why has it dropped >30% in 12 months?
The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is an index you may not have heard of, but you should have. In this article,…
What are the best ASX shares for dividend investing? They all belong to these 4 sectors
What are the best ASX shares for dividend investing? It is difficult to pick individual stocks because dividends can fluctuate…
R&D: Which companies spend the most on it and how do they set their budgets right?
R&D (Research and Development) is an important activity undertaken by companies. But how do companies decided how much to spend…
Who are the most successful investors of all time? Here is our top 4
Who are the most successful investors of all time? This is a question up for debate although here are our…
How to invest your super in 2023
How to invest your super (short for superannuation) is a question that all Australians will need to answer. Everyone will…
What does a CFO (Chief Financial Officer) do and how important are they?
Every ASX company has a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in their C-suite. They are among the most important people in…
Annual Recurring Revenue: Is it a useful metric or lipstick on a pig?
Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), sometimes called Annualised Recurring Revenue, is a metric you’ll hear some ASX small caps use. What…
Is your company’s management good or bad? Here are 3 ways to judge
Management makes or breaks a company, especially a listed one. It is easy to look at a company’s past and…
Why have food delivery stocks been dud investments despite brutal consumer demand during COVID-19?
During the height of the COVID pandemic, we couldn’t dine out so we turned to food delivery companies – including…
Here are 4 factors that determine how much time spent monitoring a portfolio is ideal to generate top returns
Monitoring a portfolio is an important task for any investor, but just how much time is appropriate? Certainly, whatever your…
The 4 key differences between West Texas Intermediate and Brent oil
Brent and West Texas Intermediate are two of the world’s most popular benchmarks for crude oil pricing. But what are…
Here are 6 investment strategies. Which one is right for you?
Investment strategies are important for any investor, regardless of the size of their portfolio. But what are some of the…
Why buying Australian Cash ETFs makes sense for investors
What are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)? ETFs are funds that track the performance of specific indexes or assets and seek…
The Top-5 books on investing you should read to boost your returns in 2021
1 January 2021 Some months ago the team at Stocks Down Under were looking for a Staff Writer for…
How to be a good contrarian investor
Tuesday 22 December 2020 Yesterday we looked at the recent track record of the team at Stocks Down Under…
Directors’ share trades – a great indicator for the rest of us
Thursday 17 December 2020 Listed companies these days are complicated things. The technology, the products, the markets and even…
Men are from BHP, Women are from Afterpay
16 December 2020 There’s an interesting story near the end of Rocket Boys, Homer Hickam’s 1998 memoir of his…
Investing during the Corona crisis
24 March 2020 We don’t have to tell you that for most people right now the world seems to be…
Market trouble spots to avoid in 2020
15 January 2020 Everyone likes a good bull market, and in Australia you could say that for over a decade…
Investing in the Year of the Rat
12 January 2020 The new Lunar Year 2020 is the Year of the Rat. In this article we look at…
2020, the Golden Year
12 January 2020 As we all know, when there’s trouble in the world, the price of gold naturally spikes. So,…
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