S&L , Equity to Assets, Overhead Expenses and some flashback

We all know how the 2008–2011 years has been some of the worst time for American and world economy. A whole lot of banks got bailed out for billions of dollars and you may think that this is an one time event. No !!!!

Why is EBITDA a curse word?

So if you didn’t hear it before. Yes, EBITDA is a curse word in value investing circles.

Adjusted EBITDA — don’t even get anyone started on that !

The reason is because of these two things attached in the end “DA”. i.e)…

My current spin-off investment — HII, Huntington Ingalls Industries

Google Alerts

I must say thanks to that tool I was able to look into HII. HII is expanded as Huntington Ingalls Industries.

Investing Fundamentals from Geoff Gannon

Geoff Gannon is a Buffett style value investor and he maintains a wonderful blog at…

Shipping Industry, Bankruptcy and Depreciation-to-Capex Ratio

The shipping Industry worldwide is going through a big crisis because of very low chartering rates. Rates used to be as high as $45k per day are now around $10k per day.

Influence of Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett and his Disciples

I was a dedicated fan of Peter Lynch for quite some time because the books were much simpler to read. His writing made me understand why should I ignore certain market panics and should follow the fundamentals. But once I got…

Emotional Investment — IKEA, Starbucks and Apple

IKEA

IKEA revolutionised furniture shopping by getting us cheaper furniture. In reality, Walmart provides the same cheap furniture. Yet, people like and rave IKEA. There are so many IKEA fan clubs. I am a fan too :)…

My Portfolio is down, What should I do next?

Most investment managers have had a bad 2015.

I’ve had a lucky 2015.

I had more than 8% return last year compared to 1.4% by the S&P Index.

Quick and Dirty ways to play the stock market

Interesting title — my friend said after reading what I had written so far. But the real interesting story here is this is how I got started in buying stocks. For every mad, crazy way to there is an underlying book aka) the method to the madness. The…