Choosing winners is hard. So I came up with a stock picking checklist based on my past mistakes to see if I can improve my stock picking skills. My strategy involves picking two categories of stocks: “Compounders” and “Deep value”. “Compounders” are stocks which can increase their earnings over the long term. Holding such stocks … Continue reading Stock picking criteria
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Datadog: Top dog in IT observation
Datadog is one of the larger positions in my portfolio and I was happy to add more when the share price fell despite revenue growing 61% y/y in the recent quarter. What does Datadog do? It is 3am and your phone starts ringing. You are the CTO of one of the world’s largest banks and … Continue reading Datadog: Top dog in IT observation
Visa: War on cash goes on
Visa is one of the larger positions in my portfolio and I bought more shares during the last two weeks because the company's valuation is close to a four year low. Visa is the world's largest payment network and is present in more than 200 countries. Visa should compound at 10% every year because of … Continue reading Visa: War on cash goes on
Mastercard: Paying up for growth
Mastercard is one of the largest positions in my portfolio so I'm using this market correction to add the stock to my scorecard. This write-up will be shorter than usual because I think the investment case for Mastercard is simple. MasterCard is the world's second largest payment network in the world (Visa is the world's … Continue reading Mastercard: Paying up for growth
TripAdvisor: Huge travel platform trading at 9% free cash flow yield
I normally don't write about US companies but TripAdvisor (TRIP) was too cheap to resist. TripAdvisor recently paid its first ever dividend, (USD3.50 special dividend) so there's a chance the company could pay dividends in the future. TripAdvisor is currently one of the bigger positions in my portfolio. TripAdvisor is a travel research platform which allows … Continue reading TripAdvisor: Huge travel platform trading at 9% free cash flow yield
iFAST and Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab history and development hints at a bright future for iFAST, one of the larger positions in my portfolio. Both companies sell funds and stocks at a low price and succeeded in gathering more assets and clients. Take a look at how Charles Schwab has grown over the years. Charles Schwab disrupted the industry by … Continue reading iFAST and Charles Schwab
iFAST Q219 results: Record AUA, Singapore digital bank license bid but lower net profit
iFAST, which is one of my major positions reported a mixed set of results for the second quarter of 2019 but there was some good news too. Assets under administration (AUA) grew 8.5% year on year to a record SGD9.0 billion despite weak unit trust subscriptions. The company's bond business is growing rapidly with bonds … Continue reading iFAST Q219 results: Record AUA, Singapore digital bank license bid but lower net profit
Singapore O&G’s 2018 AGM
SOG is one of the largest positions within my portfolio so I attended the Singapore O&G (SOG) annual shareholder meeting yesterday. Here are the key highlights: SOG market share for baby deliveries increased from 8.0% to 8.9% in 2018. While Dr Heng delivered the most babies within the group, it was the younger O&G doctors … Continue reading Singapore O&G’s 2018 AGM
SOG: Winning market share for 5th consecutive year
SOG’s cancer and O&G doctors gained recognition and won market share in 2018. SOG is one of my favourite medical stocks on the SGX. Their share of the private birth market grew for the fifth consecutive year. Based on their 2018 annual report, SOG specialists delivered 1,824 babies in 2018 which works out to a … Continue reading SOG: Winning market share for 5th consecutive year
iFAST update: Moat growing wider
iFAST has published their 2018 annual report with the company reporting the highest growth in client accounts since it was listed. These statistics were previously released in their February 2019 results presentation but they jumped out at me when I was reading their annual report. As of end 2018, the number of client accounts grew … Continue reading iFAST update: Moat growing wider
