Thu, May 24, 2012, 23:02 BST - UK Markets closed

Discover Yahoo! With Your Friends

Explore news, videos, and much more based on what your friends are reading and watching. Publish your own activity and retain full control.

To get started, first

YOUR FRIENDS' ACTIVITY

    Financial News from Stockopedia

    Latest News

    • Home Retail Group takes dividends off display Stockopedia - Fri, May 4, 2012 08:51 BST
      Home Retail Group takes dividends off display

      Home Retail (LON:HOME), the FTSE 250 company behind two of Britain’s best known retail chains, Argos and Homebase, saw profits fall by 60 percent to £102 million last year. For anyone in any doubt, the ...

    • Rialto Energy - An exclusive CEO Interview with this brand new AIM-listed O&G stock

      Jeff Schrull, CEO of Rialto Energy, interviewed by Drake Lawhead from the Oil Council.This interview appeared first in the April 2012 issue of Drillers and Dealers, the magazine of the Oil Council.DL: ...

    • Silvermere Energy: A CEO interview with a new oil stock Stockopedia - Tue, May 1, 2012 16:51 BST
      Silvermere Energy: A CEO interview with a new oil stock

      Andy Morrison, CEO, Silvermere Energy interviewed by Drake Lawhead from the Oil Council.This interview appeared in the April 2012 issue of Drillers and Dealers - the magazine of the Oil Council.DL: Tell ...

    • Gold takes a Spring Break Stockopedia - Fri, Apr 27, 2012 17:16 BST
      Gold takes a Spring Break

      There has been a range of intelligent analytical opinions recently espoused, seeking to explain the action in the gold price this last six months. Whilst we have found articulations focused on consolidation ...

    • Warren Buffett, Opportunity Cost & Stock Comparison Stockopedia - Fri, Apr 27, 2012 13:12 BST
      Warren Buffett, Opportunity Cost & Stock Comparison

      Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's annual sessions at the Berkshire Hathaway AGM are, of course, legendary. It's because they are so filled with pearls of investment wisdom that such hordes make the trek ...

    • Vodafone sends a message to the market Stockopedia - Thu, Apr 26, 2012 14:53 BST
      Vodafone sends a message to the market

      FTSE 100 telecoms giant Vodafone (LON:VOD) this week swooped on Cable & Wireless Worldwide (LON:CW.) in a £1.04 billion deal that now seems likely to bring a modestly priced end to a particularly miserable ...

    • Buying gold at discount Stockopedia - Fri, Apr 20, 2012 15:53 BST
      Buying gold at discount

      China has been trying to diversify her foreign exchange reserves for some time. We are all familiar with the figures released by the likes of the World Gold Council about Chinese gold investment demand, ...

    • Sell in May… or maybe April Stockopedia - Fri, Apr 13, 2012 12:54 BST
      Sell in May… or maybe April

      There is nothing like a seasonal pattern to rankle analysts, unsettle investors and get behavioural finance experts foaming at the mouth. Investors have various levels of expectation about the influence ...

    • Goldbugs beware: Two flawed reasons for investing in Gold Stockopedia - Wed, Apr 11, 2012 18:54 BST
      Goldbugs beware: Two flawed reasons for investing in Gold

      British economist John Maynard Keynes referred to gold as the “Barbarous relic”; billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros described it as the “Ultimate Bubble”, and even the Sage of Omaha Warren Buffett ...

    • Ben Graham strategies rock the FTSE in 2012 Stockopedia - Tue, Apr 10, 2012 13:52 BST
      Ben Graham strategies rock the FTSE in 2012

      For those of us with an eye for an bargain, London markets were a happy hunting ground during the first three months of 2012 – with the value hunting strategies of legendary investor Benjamin Graham proving ...

    • What’s the best growth strategy for ISA investors? Stockopedia - Mon, Apr 2, 2012 08:50 BST
      What’s the best growth strategy for ISA investors?

      With more and more of us ploughing our hard-earned cash into ISAs each year, the subject of how that money is put to use over the long term has become critically important. With cash funds offering lacklustre ...

    • Can Corero Network Security keep up momentum? Stockopedia - Thu, Mar 29, 2012 10:25 BST
      Can Corero Network Security keep up momentum?

      Selling software to the financial services sector was a pretty brutal market for any business to be in during the dark years of the economic slump – as investors in AIM quoted Corero Network Security (LON:CNS) ...

    • Using an investment checklist to value Shell Stockopedia - Fri, Mar 23, 2012 09:38 GMT
      Using an investment checklist to value Shell

      We’re all feeling the pain of high petrol and diesel costs at the moment with prices at the pump hitting more than 150p per litre in some places.  I know that some investors like to hedge their bets and ...

    • Earnings Momentum: Beating Analysts At Their Own Game Stockopedia - Wed, Mar 21, 2012 15:38 GMT
      Earnings Momentum: Beating Analysts At Their Own Game

      With company earnings season in full swing and London markets displaying signs of improving confidence, we thought we’d share the impressive performance of one of our Momentum screens, which tracks those ...

    • Promethean World - Investing in high tech education Stockopedia - Tue, Mar 20, 2012 14:19 GMT

      It’s time I got back to the task of building up my portfolio of small-cap, low debt, deep value investments.  This week the target is Promethean World (LON:PRW), a company which makes interactive and collaborative ...

    • NTT Docomo: value investing in Japan? Stockopedia - Fri, Mar 16, 2012 15:15 GMT

      First published on February 18th 2012When I added the Japanese stock market to the NEONOMIC stock finder I was immediately faced with a huge number of new companies that appeared to be undervalued. It ...

    • Silver is the restless metal Stockopedia - Fri, Mar 16, 2012 10:56 GMT

      Silver is a much smaller market than the gold market and quality research about the poor man’s gold can be less easy to find. One academic who does stand out though is the late Professor Roy Jastram, whose ...

    • HSBC - A bank worth investing in? Stockopedia - Wed, Mar 14, 2012 16:12 GMT

      HSBC has taken a bit of a beating over the past few years just like all the other banks, but I think this one has done a solid job of steering through the crisis. Earnings and dividends may be down substantially ...

    • Dart Group - is this a bullseye stock? Stockopedia - Mon, Mar 12, 2012 15:19 GMT

      In a previous post I had a quick look at Dart Group PLC. An initial glance at the company suggested that a very defensive balance sheet that generated reasonable returns lay behind a very low valuation.To ...

    • We thought we’d spend some time discussing one of the most obscure screens amongst the Quality stock screen category, R&D Breakthroughs Screen. It’s a stock selection strategy that seeks to match up companies ...

    • There are lots of different ways to be a value investor. When I’m investing in large companies I look for stability and strength above all, followed by the potential for growth and a low price, of course; ...

    • Digital gold is the game changer Stockopedia - Mon, Mar 5, 2012 13:41 GMT
      Digital gold is the game changer

      There was an interesting piece by Professor George Selgin in last week’s CityAM forum. In his analysis he articulately describes why the Great Depression should not be blamed on the Gold Standard, but ...

    • 7 Ways to Find Stock Ideas: Improving Your Search Strategy Stockopedia - Wed, Feb 22, 2012 09:00 GMT
      7 Ways to Find Stock Ideas: Improving Your Search Strategy

      Crucial to any successful investment process is having a good "search" or "origination" strategy, i.e. ensuring that you are constantly seeing a good "funnel" of investment ...

    • O'Shaughnessy's Tiny Titans Screen: A small-cap value and momentum strategy

      In BriefTiny Titans is a small/micro-cap strategy developed by O'Shaugnessy in his 2006 book, "Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow". It looks for cheap small caps with upward price momentum.BackgroundJames ...

    • 5 Reasons Why Investors Should Forget About the Facebook IPO Stockopedia - Fri, Feb 10, 2012 17:32 GMT
      5 Reasons Why Investors Should Forget About the Facebook IPO

      With Facebook having finally announced plans for its long anticipated IPO this spring, speculation is already rife about the social network’s likely gigantic valuation and how the shares will go on to ...

    • The Top 5 Ways to Find Bargain Stocks in any Market Stockopedia - Fri, Feb 3, 2012 14:34 GMT
      The Top 5 Ways to Find Bargain Stocks in any Market

      When it comes to buying stocks, few investors would dispute that finding a bargain is a seductive prospect. But while most investors are looking for an attractive price, some bargain – or deep value – ...

    • The top 4 clues for hunting tomorrow’s growth stars Stockopedia - Tue, Jan 24, 2012 17:13 GMT
      The top 4 clues for hunting tomorrow’s growth stars

      For many investors, the task of scouring the market for companies that look poised for rapid growth is the holy grail of stock selection. The stocks chosen by growth investors boast an air of anticipation ...

    • The 5 Key Signs of an Economic Moat Stockopedia - Tue, Jan 24, 2012 13:22 GMT
      The 5 Key Signs of an Economic Moat

      In spite of a dozen years of sideways markets that have just about ground the philosophy of buy and hold into the dust, Warren Buffett's purchase decisions are still able to turn a thousand heads. Investors ...

    • A Warren Buffet Stock Screen: Blending Benjamin Graham with a dashing of Philip Fisher

      With the recent news of his investment in Tesco (LON:TSCO), we thought we'd take a look this week at a Warren Buffett stock screen using the Stockopedia Pro data-set. Buffett's approach is a highly fundamentals-focused ...

    • Tesco - should you be selling... or buying ? Stockopedia - Fri, Jan 20, 2012 10:16 GMT
      Tesco - should you be selling... or buying ?

      Tesco (LON:TSCO) is the largest supermarket in the UK with over 2,000 stores here and around half a million staff worldwide.  It’s a monster.  It’s the dominant player in a recession-proof industry and ...

    • Three UK Retailers Compared - Tesco, Mothercare and Dixons Stockopedia - Thu, Jan 19, 2012 09:30 GMT

      Last post I outlined three stocks I thought were interesting to look at because of the UK question - the problems in valuing a group as a whole when different parts within that group are performing so ...

    • Searching for Momentum - six stocks that are riding a wave Stockopedia - Wed, Jan 18, 2012 13:36 GMT
      Searching for Momentum - six stocks that are riding a wave

      When it comes to investing strategies, the “buy low, sell high” mantra of value investors is the approach best known to those scrutinising the market for attractive potential returns. However, a closer ...

    • The Top 5 Momentum Indicators every Trader needs to know Stockopedia - Wed, Jan 18, 2012 11:47 GMT
      The Top 5 Momentum Indicators every Trader needs to know

      Is the trend really your friend? It seem so ridiculous that just because a price is going up that it should continue to go up, but that's precisely what has been observed in the price behaviour of stocks. ...

    • Forbidden Technologies eyes sales boost as strategy pays off Stockopedia - Mon, Jan 16, 2012 16:02 GMT
      Forbidden Technologies eyes sales boost as strategy pays off

      Forbidden Technologies (LON:FBT), the AIM listed company behind the Cloud-based video platform FORscene, saw its shares rise by 4% to 37.5p today on news that double digit sales growth during 2011 had ...

    • The January Effect: buy stocks now or run for cover? Stockopedia - Wed, Jan 11, 2012 10:12 GMT
      The January Effect: buy stocks now or run for cover?

      “As goes January, so goes the year.” For investors that subscribe to the notion of calendar effects, Christmas and new year represent key moments in the investing calendar for taking advantage of some ...

    Next >>