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 !!!!

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…

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…

Developing your Circle of Competence in Stock Market Investing

Let me begin this topic by saying this is not an one day effort. Developing your Circle of Competence in various industries happens over years. Here is a list of things I usually do to understand an industry.

My Introduction to Stock Market

Almost every one to whom I speak about investing in stocks feels like it is like going to Vegas.

I have been reading stock quotes from my school days in India and tried to understand why the price of one goes up a day and goes down another day.

Investing and Circle of Competence

Warren Buffett famously coined this word “Circle of Competence”. What it means is that you should buy stocks of companies which you understand very well. Buffett famously ignores any technology stock, although lately he has bought IBM shares. But over all these years…