What does it mean to pay yourself first? Savings is a prerequisite of investing. To save money, you have to “pay yourself first.” For high income people, saving isn’t a problem. But for the middle and poor class, saving can be a daunting task. How would you invest money when you can’t even save money? … Read more
The news about the Hawkeye-1 well sends the share price of Trans-Asia-Petroleum (TAPET) down to 2.77 pesos per share as of this writing. That’s almost a 75% drop since the news broke out. I looked at the company’s valuations and I saw negative EPS and Net Income for the past 4 years. With those figures, the … Read more
According to a recent news today, the PSEi is seen trading with a bearish bias this week. I agree with this because I’ve been observing the market and I saw a lot of volatility this past 2 weeks. The index is falling since its all time high last April and from what I see, I … Read more
Earlier today, I noticed a lot of investors panicking over DNL’s stock price. Yestrday, DNL’s price closed on 21.65 Php per share. Today, the price after market recess closed to 10.74. So what happened? D&L paid out its stock dividends today. So what is a stock dividend? A stock dividend is a type of dividend … Read more
If you want to value a stock’s price, there’s an easy way to do that without having to find a lot of data in the Internet. This time, all the data that we’ll need can be found at COL Financial’s database. The data that we will be needing is the current share price, EPS (earnings … Read more
There’s a lot of hysteria going on with the newly publicly traded company, SBS Corporation (SBS). The stock almost doubled its price since the day it was first traded. Anyone who bought it in its IPO is now enjoying hefty gains. For now, the speculators are the ones who benefits the most from the stock’s … Read more
I’m gonna tell you a fictional story about a rich businessman and how I can relate it to the stock market. This is based on a story I read and I want to re-tell it in a Filipino perspective. A long time ago, a rich businessman was sailing down the Marikina river and saw the river … Read more
One key factor in successful investing is to know your investment. Now what does that mean? Take for example a financial institution, Banco De Oro (BDO). Unless you truly know how a bank operates and make profit through leveraging and interest income, you wouldn’t invest in it right? The main reason is that why would … Read more
Back in the days when gold was used as a medium of exchange, inflation virtually does not exist. If you own a treasure chest full of gold, bury it and leave it for 100 years then come back to dig it up, it would still be that treasure chest with the same amount of gold … Read more
When a company makes a lot of profit, it sometimes shares a part of it to its investors. We call it dividends. To put it in a perspective, imagine a “carinderia” business in which you and your mom are the owners. Your supermom does everything from cooking, serving and dish washing while you on the other … Read more