“An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.” – Benjamin Graham Example of Investment and Speculation An investment is buying an asset with intrinsic value that has cash flow and/or physical asset value. Speculating is buying something in an […]
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In trading and investing, the rule of 70 is a method used for estimating the doubling time for capital based on investment or interest rates of return. What is the Rule of 70? The rule number is divided by the rate of return percentage per period (years is the most common used) to obtain the
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Financial literacy is the ability to understand and apply a range of financial skills effectively. It applies to successful personal financial decisions and management like monthly budgets, saving, investing, and establishing a career to pay living expenses. Financial literacy means people can become self-sufficient and not need to live with parents or family as they
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In finance, TTM stands for trailing twelve months, and it represents a company’s financial performance in the last 12 consecutive months. For example, if a company financial statement is created on August 1, 2022, then the TTM financial report and the dollar values used to prepare the statement will be created using the trailing twelve
A Cantillon effect is a change in prices related to one another that was caused due to a change in the money supply, first discovered by Richard Cantillon an 18th-century economist. History shows that some assets are favored over other ones when extra money is available in the economy for spending and investing. These preferences
“A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.” – Seth Klarman For investors the margin of safety is the variance between the fundamental value of the underlying company of
In investing and trading, diversification is the process of buying positions with capital that are not 100% correlated in price movement during most market environemnts. Diversification can be as broad as investing in different types of assets or just in equities but in stocks in different sectors, market cap, or countries. In trading, diversification can
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Negative correlation in markets, also known as an inverse correlation, indicates that two securities have a relationship where their prices move in opposite directions from each other most of the time. As an example, if gold and the U.S. dollar have a negative correlation, as the dollar goes up in value then gold will go
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What does EBITDA stand for? EBITDA stands for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. What is EBITDA? EBITDA is an accounting measure calculated by using a company’s earnings before interest expenses, taxes, depreciation, and amortization are subtracted. EBITDA is commonly used as an alternate measure to quantify a company’s current profitability from operations. It
Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway was holding 46 different company stocks in its portfolio on March 31, 2021, according to the most recent regulatory filing with the SEC from the 1st quarter of 2021. The five biggest positions account for over 75% of the portfolio’s value: $AAPL $BAC $KO $AXP and $KHC. The top ten
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