Home work on shares...?

eroshans · 1 Home work on shares...? Wed Aug 20, 2014 11:08 am

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Dear advanced members..

Appreciate if you can give us (beginners) some knowledge/ light on how to do a study on a share with available data (AR)

Thanks

eroshans · 2 Re: Home work on shares...? Wed Sep 03, 2014 3:12 pm

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eroshans wrote:Dear advanced members..

Appreciate if you can give us (beginners) some knowledge/ light on how to do a study on a share with available data (AR)

Thanks

Plz advice ...

NilangaG · 3 Re: Home work on shares...? Wed Sep 03, 2014 7:23 pm

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Best way is to study a share is to look in to past quarterly and annual reports. You can study the profitability of the last few quarters and years. If the PE value (EPS/Share price) is less than 10, that's a good share to buy. Ex: SAMP, SDB. This is only one method and many other factors affect. In general, if the company is running well, so is the share price.

soileconomy · 4 Re: Home work on shares...? Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:05 pm

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From this quarter onwards future earnings may differ in considerable way for companies which have huge finance cost .consider that also.

VALUEPICK · 5 Re: Home work on shares...? Fri Sep 05, 2014 11:37 am

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Every industry has risk and returns. No industry is 100% risk free. So it is better to have an idea about risk and returns of every industry before buying any assets. Even gold is not a safe investment. I agree with Soileconomey about finance cost. In addition raw material prices should come down due to improved weather patterns in the coming quarters. Oil prices also could stay low. USD could appreciate against other currencies in the coming quarters. Export oriented companies should benefit. In addition we need to study increased tourist numbers during next 10 quarters specially when it increase by another one million. This is where we can see capacity for lot of industries such as hotels, food specially poultry and transportation. Sri-Lanka has one of the hot beverages(high quality TEA)in the world. This is going to be one of the emerging commodities in the world in the coming years and decade. So there are so many way to analyse mega trends. Particularly it is better to focus on great value and growth. Good luck