Why invest in the stock market?

Why invest in the stock market? What are your reasons? Isn’t it a question worth needing an answer? Before investing, it is vital that you ask this question to yourself because having clear-cut reasons or a purpose is vital to your success. If you are not working towards a goal, investing will be hard and … Read more

Reward-driven vs. result-driven people

reward-driven vs. result-driven people

Do you know that we can classify people into 2 distinct groups; The first group are the reward-driven people. The second group are the result-driven people. Let’s discuss about these two groups in detail. When we say reward-driven, we can say that these are the type of people who only move their asses when they … Read more

How do you pay yourself first?

pay yourself first

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

Gambling in the stock market

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

4 things to remember during bear markets

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

How To Value A Stock Using EPS, P/E Ratio And EBITDA

financial statements

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

SBS Stock Review: Thinking Of Investing In SBS For The Long-term?

sbs philippines corporation

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