Fiberweb is involved in the manufacturing of non-woven products, but I'm not too concerned with that. Here's what matters above all in a value play -- the numbers:Share price58p52w high/low68/39pCap£101mNet ...

ASOS plc (LSE: ASC) has done it again. Just when you thought the shares of this volatile but highly valued internet retailer were past their peak, they put on a stunning 9% to reach £16.56 on annual results ...

Do you want an income of 7.5% a year from your investments but are worried about shares? Fortunately, there are retail bonds from FTSE 100 companies that are guaranteed to pay these kind of whopping yields.There ...

Today's featured investor specialises in capitulation point investing. In other words, he invests mainly when all seems lost, but he thinks a company has a fighting chance of turning things around.When ...

Without doubt, Warren Buffett has said some very smart things. Which, when you think about it, isn't surprising.Because he wouldn't have made so much money in the first place if he wasn't smart, and -- ...

My father has always been fond of telling me that if a thing looks too good to be true, it probably is -- but in this case, I think he might be wrong.This share has outperformed the FTSE 100 solidly for ...

A £1,000 bonus is a nice thing to receive, but if you're a higher-rate taxpayer who doesn't use any fancy tax avoidance strategies then all you'll get is £480, because the government takes a whopping 52% ...

A £1,000 bonus is a nice thing to receive, but if you're a higher-rate taxpayer who doesn't use any fancy tax avoidance strategies then all you'll get is £480, because the government takes a whopping 52% ...

The latest round of euro-panic has been sending the FTSE into freefall in recent weeks, and it is showing no signs of stopping, with a further fall of 2.3% today.There's a meeting of eurozone leaders going ...

For once, it appears that a PLC's board directors have shared their shareholders' pain, following Tesco's first profit warning for more than 20 years. To show you what I mean, here are the salaries and ...

Facebook finally floated and promptly dropped 18% from its $38 IPO price. So hyped was the new issue that, priced at the top of its valuation range, there was insufficient demand to support the stock once ...

In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare wrote:"What's in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other name would smell as sweet."In other words, Shakespeare said that names don't matter; what ...

“When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life" -- Dr Samuel JohnsonThe three most important things to take into account when investing in property are location, location and location. One of ...

The foundations for the European Union lay in the wreckage that was early post-war Europe, with a new generation of politicians desperate to find a way to prevent such a calamity ever happening again.It ...

Yesterday's annual Scottish Widows Pensions Report made gloomy reading. As I've written before, the combination of inadequate savings, poor investment returns and low annuity rates has resulted in millions ...

Buy on the dips has been my personal mantra for the last 18 months. In roller-coaster stock markets, you don't want to buy at the top of the ride, but the bottom.The recovery is set to be a long, bumpy ...

Telecoms companies are becoming pretty strong dividend payers these days, with BT Group and Vodafone offering around the 5-8% range. But both have very high debts amounting to a significant portion of ...

This morning, iconic retailer Marks & Spencer released its full-year results. Alas, despite rising sales and steady earnings, M&S failed to lift its dividend payout. Despite this, its shares offer value, ...

A small company with some kind of game-changing technology is usually a red flag for me. Such companies rarely seem to get to where the technology suggested they might. I prefer proven earnings, big assets, ...

It's now the biggest dividend payer in the FTSE 100, and Vodafone duly delivered on its promise of 7% dividend growth in its results for the year to 31 March 2012.The numbers were pretty much what the ...

Although mega-cap blue-chip companies like HSBC , Vodafone and SSE provide the safest and most reliable way to generate a decent dividend income, it can be more rewarding for keen investors to seek out ...

When you start to build a portfolio it is a good policy to spread your investment between many different sectors of the economy, rather than to put everything into one type of business. So you buy shares ...

Great investors don't always see eye-to-eye about companies. Take leading FTSE 100 supermarket Tesco .City super-investor Neil Woodford has sold all his shares in Tesco this year, while US investing legend ...

I've scoured the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) to find five of the most outstanding companies you can buy shares in today.Among the five is one company that 46-bagged in three years and another that ...

Looking at the FTSE 100's cheapest shares on forward earnings often throws up some bargains.As you might imagine, though, that wasn't the case over the past three months. At the end of February, I asked: ...

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -- if all records told the same tale -- then the lie passed into history and became truth" -- George Orwell, 1984Austerity is the word ...

As a staunch saver and investor, I'm really not fond of today's economic environment.On one hand, no or low economic growth crimps business profits while, on the other, ultra-low interest rates and stubbornly ...

I know, I know. I should get out more. Favourite financial ratios? Give me a break.But actually, I am rather fond of these ratios. And for the best of reasons.Because, simply put, keeping a watchful eye ...

This has been a very happy morning indeed for shareholders in PV Crystalox Solar , which makes multi-crystalline silicon, the key component of solar panels.A sunny day for PVCSFour months ago, I picked ...

So, here we are again. Once more, Europe is teetering on the edge of the precipice. This time it is not just the markets that have brought us here, but the people.In elections in France and Greece, people ...

All this week, I've been introducing you to some of the world's great investors, looking at their individual approaches, and running stock screens to unearth examples of the type of companies their different ...

We've had weeks of AGMs and we have more to come, but we also have a pretty meaty set of results coming our way next week.One company I've been keeping my eye on is Mitie Group , and I'm keenly awaiting ...

Moats were once essential for keeping intruders out of castles, because they presented a simple but effective barrier to entry. Today, they are just as useful for keeping would-be competitors away from ...