The Secret Behind Apple’s Success
Investing doesn’t need to be complicated. Reflected in Apple’s success, the simplest strategies can yield the most remarkable results.
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Inflation Medicine for Preserving Your Wealth
Investing can scale your money if it’s invested properly Investing is key to success in both building and preserving your wealth.
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Revolutionize Your Investment Strategy with AI
Any aspiring investor should consider AI as a useful tool for investing. It can be useful in a number of aspects.
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Qualys: Checking All the Right Boxes
Evaluating key financial metrics further reinforces that Qualys is checking all the right boxes, reflected in strong growth & profitability.
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Growth and Value Creation
The business world tends to be consumed with growth. And growth and value creation are tightly linked, as is Return on Invested Capital (ROIC).
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Share Repurchases
Share repurchases make good business sense only under certain conditions. The shares must offer appropriate value. It would be value-destroying to overpay for buybacks.
Take advantage of Market Cycles
Certain repetitive types of conditions provide situations for the best pricing of companies that have a durable competitive advantage. Invariably, the Market overreacts to short-term news.
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What Does Accenture do?
A quick & dirty Warren Buffet test. It has high returns on equity (ROE) and very low levels of debt. The guidance for next year and the years to come in the short-term look very promising.
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Meta Platforms: Is Meta worth Considering?
Is Meta worth considering? The future of Meta depends on TikTok, iOS privacy changes, WhatsApp+Messenger, and the Metaverse.
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Margin of Safety: why it’s Necessary and How to Estimate it
A “margin of safety” is necessary. It is a cushion that protects you as an investor from potential losses due to unforeseen events or changes in market conditions.
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Analyze Like a Pro: A factor every investor must know
In this post, I will dive into the single most important factor of financial analysis. It’s exceedingly important because it’s a huge drive of effective investment analysis.
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How to Invest Like a Pro: The checklist
These are key pillars of Buffett’s investing approach. Add these to your investment strategy to invest like a pro.
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Investment Strategy: Growth vs Value
Are you a value or a growth investor? Not knowing your investment strategy is certainly another critical error.
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Identifying Competitive Advantage
In evaluating companies for potential investment in their stock, identifying competitive advantage within those companies is key to investing money successfully.
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Apple’s Cash Management
Apple is a cash-generating machine. It produced $122B in cash flow from operations in 2022, more than Amazon and Facebook combined.
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2 Keys to Successful Value Investing
Value investing with a long-term focus affords many benefits and the highest potential for returns.
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Nike vs Adidas: Which is the Better Investment?
With similar business models, we see stark differences in revenue, profitability, and performance. I think this boils down to two things: consumer sentiment and management.
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5 of the Best Stocks for 2023
These are all established, well-capitalized companies with competitive advantages in their respective industries. They also present relatively lower risk while possessing solid financial strength.
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Crocs Stock is On Sale
It’s got strong fundamentals, great prospects, low valuation, and the stock price has been moving in the right direction for the past 6 months. The stage is set, and there’s still huge upside in the stock at current levels.
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How to Pursue Bonds as Investments
A key part of your investment strategy for wealth creation should include bonds as investments. Bonds provide a great source of investment returns while also affording excellent diversification to your portfolio.
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4 Strong REITs to Invest in Now
It is hard to beat an annual average ~10%+ compounded return over 20 to 30 years with such a low-risk profile and only about 20% leverage.
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How to Find Value When Evaluating Investments
The twin towers of growth and return on invested capital (ROIC) are the underlying drivers of value and value creation.
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Why Invest in Real Estate: Benefits and Options
the overall average annual return on investment for residential real estate in the United States is 10.6%. As a whole, investing in real estate remains a sound investment strategy and one of the best ways to invest money.
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Login to This Stock Tip: Paycom Software (NYSE: PAYC)
Paycom has invested heavily in its R&D (research and development) efforts, and that investment is paying off handsomely!
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Evaluating Stocks Using Profitability Ratios
This allows for analysis of management’s efficiency in producing profits given the assets or capital at their disposal.
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Take Advantage of Rising Interest Rates: 3 Solid Income Plays!
Investors can lock those higher rates in now for additional passive income!
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Best Dividend Stocks 2022 and How to Invest in Them!
The biggest thing to keep in mind when buying a dividend stock is how secure the company’s dividend may be.
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Riding the Crypto Wave?
In my view, crypto is not an investment; it’s a gamble.
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Starbucks Stock Price (NASDAQ: SBUX): Wake Up and Smell the Opportunity!
The brand is exceedingly strong, with great strategic advantages in the form of cost leadership, differentiation, and focus.
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Valuing Stocks Using Relative Valuation
Fortunately, there are more straightforward and intuitive approaches to valuing a business. Fortunately too, they’re fairly quick & easy to use!
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Optimal Investment Diversification
We’ve all heard the phrase “never put all your eggs in one basket!”
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5 Key Steps to Investing Success!
The “best” time to start investing is always now.
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Ulta Beauty Analysis (NASDAQ: ULTA)
Ulta Beauty (ULTA) has performed exceptionally well in the past year!
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Profit Margins Deserve a Critical Eye
As a rule, you’d like to see a company in which you’re invested to have high profit margins. The higher, the better!
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Microsoft Analysis: NASDAQ (MSFT)
Consider this – a $2,100 money investment would have ballooned to an approximate value of $750,000 by 2011.
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The Power of Compounding
One of the most compelling advantages about long-term investing is the effect of compounding. Truly a mathematical wonder, compounding effectively magnifies the returns of the investor, as long as the investment is performing well! It can be considered the 8th wonder of the world! DISCLOSURE: THIS POST MAY CONTAIN AFFILIATE LINKS, MEANING I GET A
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My CORE Investing Principles
Focus on Long-Term Economics. I find that most investors tend to lean toward being short-term motivated.
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Intro
Welcome to Raising InvestorIQ! We all work very hard for the money we make! And at times, we’re able to manage our finances in a way that allows us to have excess cash flow. More often than not, we take that excess cash and place it into savings, whether that means saving cash under the