Our favorite holding period is forever. – Warren Buffett – Our average holding period has come down to a Year and eight months because of our recent purchases. Prior to that, our average holding period is four years. Four years seems like a long time, but in investing it is a short time. Here is […]
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.– Alexander Graham Bell – During the COVID-19 pandemic, if you have noticed AT&T stock because of its falling price and whopping 8% dividend yield, you are not the first one. We have […]
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”― Albert Einstein Benjamin Graham had spent his life establishing his basic criterion for buying and selling stocks. In a nutshell, his rules for selling stocks are: 1. Sell after your stock has gone up 50 percent; or 2. Sell […]
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. – Albert Einstein. The world of driving is going green, no doubt about it. And it should be. We believe in our responsibility to save this planet and we got to act now by buying […]
“COVID-19, are you going to be naughty or nice to me?” – Steve Magee – Oracle provides products and services that address enterprise information technology (IT) environments. (In Billions) FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 Y-Y Growth 4 Year Growth Revenue 37.7 39.8 39.5 39.0 -1% 3% Operating Income 13.2 14.3 14 14.2 1% 8% Operating Margin […]
There’s no shame in losing money on a stock. Everybody does it. What is shameful is to hold on to a stock, or worse, to buy more of it when the fundamentals are deteriorating. -Peter Lynch- This is a story of a Trader that turned into Investor (or that is what we prefer to be […]
You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don’t go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold. – Andrew Carnegie. A millionaire is an individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or […]
Inflation is the one of the form of taxation that can be imposed without Legislation – Milton Friedman. Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist. He was Chairman of the Federal Reserve under U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan from August 1979 to August 1987. 1979 – Took Office Interest Rate – 11.09% […]
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote in the original founders’ letter, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.” Is it really? Let’s find out. The internet is the future. We believe we had just made an entry to this realm of opportunity and excitement. The internet is one […]
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, the Standard and Poor Index fell 30% within a short span of a month. This Coronavirus wreaked havoc on the investment world not to mention normal life. While rest of the investors are scrambling to decide on what to do, we pondered on an abstract thought. We focused solely on the […]