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Investing in turnarounds, recovery stocks and corporate transformations

January 30, 2019 By John Kingham

Market Crash

This is the last in a short series of blog posts covering my stock screen and investment strategy updates for 2019 and beyond. Here's a … [Read more...]

Factoring in the risk of excessive corporate debt

January 28, 2019 By John Kingham

Debt

This is the fourth in a short series of blog posts covering my stock screen and investment strategy updates for 2019 and beyond. Here’s a … [Read more...]

Companies with thin profit margins often make bad investments

January 25, 2019 By John Kingham

Serco profitability 2019 01

This is the third in a short series of blog posts covering my stock screen and investment strategy updates for 2019 and beyond. Here’s a … [Read more...]

Why I’m measuring capital employed growth instead of earnings growth

January 23, 2019 By John Kingham

Ted Baker capital employed growth 2019 01

This is the second in a short series of blog posts covering my stock screen and investment strategy updates for 2019 and beyond. Here’s a … [Read more...]

Why I’ll be looking at reported earnings instead of adjusted earnings from now on

January 23, 2019 By John Kingham

N Brown reported earnings 2019 01

Following a somewhat underwhelming 2018 I decided to make a few small changes to my stock screen’s metrics and my defensive value investment … [Read more...]

Why dividend investors should look at free cash flow

December 20, 2018 By John Kingham

Free Cash Flow Dividend Cover - Imperial Brands 2018 12

If you're a dividend investor, I think you should pay more attention to a company's free cash flow than its earnings. In a nutshell, … [Read more...]

How to measure a company’s growth rate

December 14, 2018 By John Kingham

Burberry growth 2018 12

On the whole, it makes sense for long-term investors to invest in companies that are likely to grow over the long-term. And an obvious … [Read more...]

The upside of market corrections

October 30, 2018 By John Kingham

dont panic

2018 has been a year of corrections for the UK stock market. First we had a market correction (a decline of more than 10%) in January and … [Read more...]

A 5-step guide to dividend investing for beginners

September 12, 2018 By John Kingham

A beginners guide to dividend investing - feature

I love writing about the basic principles of dividend investing, value investing and defensive investing. So I thought I’d take a step … [Read more...]

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