Sentences with phrase «thinking of giving me stock»

Charlie Munger, Buffett's right - hand man at Berkshire, is famous for saying that if you can not handle the thought of a given stock falling 50 % in price, you shouldn't be in the market.

I turned 24 this year, and my Mom and Dad are thinking of giving me stock that they have owned for over 1 year to pay for my college expenses.

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Parker: I think the worst - case scenario for stocks is we've have a litany of concerns, whether it's rising rates that gave way to tech and regulatory and trade concerns.

While these companies are unsurprisingly out of favour with many investors — a lot simply won't buy these companies on moral grounds — they think the sector's high yields, low correlation with market cycles and steady earnings will make investors give them another look, and then stock prices will appreciate.

Tech stocks, thought to thrive more under Clinton given her support of net neutrality and other tech - friendly policies, also sold off, including Netflix (nflx), down almost 2 %.

'' [But] with the stock at 30 times 2020 earnings, with the upside coming from a glutted market,» he continued, «we think the risk - reward in this, given where other LNG plays are in Australia and elsewhere, is just completely out - of - whack.»

And we thought the best way to have those kinds of universal values was to build around company - owned stores and then to provide stock options to every employee, to give them a financial and psychological stake in the company.»

One school of thought is this: If you have stocks that aren't overvalued when you buy them, downturns in their value give you an opportunity to purchase more stock at a cheaper price.

I'll give you an overview of Canadian stock screeners, explain how to find them, give tips on making the most of these handy tools for trading, and recommend the ones I think are most useful.

At our meeting, I gave a brief presentation to the Markel guys about my thoughts on a few of the stocks we own, including Google and Facebook, which are my two most recent investments.

It doesn't matter if you are a fixed income investor considering purchasing bonds issued by a company, an equity investor considering buying stock in a firm, a landlord contemplating leasing a property to an enterprise, a bank officer making a recommendation on a potential loan, or a vendor thinking about extending credit to a new customer, knowing how to calculate it in a few seconds can give you a powerful insight into the health of company.

At Valuentum, we think some of the best opportunities arise from an understanding of a variety of investing disciplines in order to identify the most attractive stocks at any given time.

When people first see the term «options trading», most think of stock options, as in the option to purchase a stock at a given date at a given price.

We're thinking about the time Wall Street banks colluded on rigging prices on the Nasdaq market; or the time they rigged their research departments and told us to buy stocks that they were secretly callings dogs and crap; or the time they got S&P and Moody's to give them triple - A ratings on subprime pools of debt while keeping it a secret that they had internal reports showing the loans didn't meet their origination standards — and then they went out and secretly shorted that debt while continuing to sell it to their customers as a good investment.

Given group - think and the determination of policy makers to do «whatever it takes» to prevent the next market «crash,» we think that the low - volatility levitation magic act of stocks and bonds will exist until the disenchanting moment when it does not.

Given everything we've seen about this fund, I think it could make a find choice for investors seeking exposure to the crazy world of biotech but don't want to go about picking stocks for themselves.

Given that industrial stocks typically operate in boring and more predictable industries (think telecommunications, utilities, banking), industrial stocks often pay out a large amount of earnings as dividends, and these dividends grow as the earnings grow (in a relatively predictable manner).

Simplifying the procurement process to give you the best quality, price and timing enables you to think outside of the box whether you are looking for a stock item with a twist or a fully custom design solution.

Murray Goulburn thinks there is a risk Saputo will not achieve its control hurdles given 46 per cent of WCB stock is owned by industry players.

I have always liked lacazette, so this might come across as me making excuses, but which honest logical thinking arsenal fan could tell me that we are playing good football, so why are we so quick to find fault with lacazette, a player who has proved that once given the right service, will score, so we shift our frustration from a player who we've only just bought and ignore the fact that we play sideways and backwards, edging forward, then when in the final third we start playing five - aside, we've become predictable, one dimensional and a laughing stock on and of the pitch.

I can also tell my hon. Friend that it would cost almost # 1.7 million to repaint the nation's 115,000 post boxes, and given that Royal Mail has 300 litres of red paint in stock I think he can sleep easily in his bed at night about the colour of our post boxes.

However, it is now back in stock and there are really similar tops out there right now so I thought I'd give you an idea of how I wore this during my own casual, down time.

I love the Rowan Organic collection from PBK — most of it is out of stock right now, but it gives me a good starting point to think about what I like!

But given the business model, I think they'd rather be out - of - stock than allow Barnes and Noble to undercut them.

The irrational part is thinking that dividends are the only good way to generate income from stocks, are the primary source of superior performance in any given period, or that dividends somehow magically convey stability to your portfolio that's not available from other types of stock allocations.

You could have your $ 1 million in 35 years if you were able to earn 8 % a year, but I think that rate of return would be pushing it, given today's low interest rates and high stock valuations.

You shouldn't think of this as any sort of guarantee of how a given combination of stocks and bonds will fare in the future.

The 12 - month price target gives investors an idea of what an analyst thinks a stock will be valued a year from now, to determine growth potential.

I think that the oversold and overbought labels are perhaps convenient labels that over time have given people a sense of common understanding which is helpful in describing a stock price action, but not in deciding a trading action.

I've never thought of that, but an early win really could give a false sense of abilities in the stock market.

Following this hype created somewhat of a herd mentality that was driving many investors to invest their money in Facebook stock without really giving much thought to it.

The thinking behind such a diversified fund is to give you a wide range of stocks with the hope of thereby managing your risk effectively and offering diversification to your investment portfolio.

I thought I would pass along a few thoughts of my own, given that 1) William cited the success he's had with a newsletter from The Motley Fool (my employer for the past 15 - plus years), and 2) my own portfolio has big holdings in index funds but also some actively managed funds and individual stocks.

It is also sobering for those of us who may want to accumulate dividend paying stocks quickly and may not give much thought to growth.

Just thought I'd give you the name of the stock that I purchased yesterday.

You should think of the exercise of stock options as if the option - holders (not the company) force all existing shareholders to give up to the option - holders a percentage of their shares at a price below market value.

As always, I think one should look at stocks on an individual basis instead of trying to judge the entire market at any given time.

We think investors should be paid to take on the risk of stock ownership and give top marks to firms with generous dividend yields.

In my last post I promised: «OK, next I'll take you through each of my investment allocations — and try to give a flavour of my thinking, and some underlying stocks / funds, in each instance `.

Commodities are more of a pure trading asset class than stocks and bonds, given they are not cash - producing or yield - generating assets, but can rather be thought of as alternative currencies subject to their own supply - and - demand forces

When it comes to trading stocks it is important to give plenty of thought to the type of trading you wish to do.

Buffett gave an interview before the meeting last week where he summarized the basic principles of thinking of a stock like a business in a manner that he's done many times before, and in a response to a question from Becky Quick regarding his view on Apple's recent quarterly results, Buffett said:

At our meeting, I gave a brief presentation to the Markel guys about my thoughts on a few of the stocks we own, including Google and Facebook, which are my two most recent investments.

OK, next I'll take you through each of my investment allocations — and try to give a flavour of my thinking, and some underlying stocks / funds, in each instance.

, I'll finish the series by taking you «through each of my investment allocations — and try to give a flavour of my thinking, and some underlying stocks / funds, in each instance.»

I don't think we can categorically declare that these stocks are value traps until we give them time to work their way out of the screen one way or another (i.e. they're too expensive because the stock price is up, or the fundamentals are destroyed).

I did get a half answer to my first question, in that many of them pointed to the books, Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, 8th Edition, and Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance) to a lesser extent, as definitive (and large) reference books on TA that give what they think is the overarching theory.

But I believe that the average person should never, ever, ever give two seconds thought to investing passively (to invest passively is to stay at the same stock allocation regardless of the price at which stocks are selling).

Stock portfolios should thus do better than index funds if you can just let your System 2 do the thinking, and individual stocks give you other advantages such as better control over timing of realizing gains & losses, etc..

An investment portfolio is a group of stocks you've invested in that you think will give you diversification — and maximize your investment returns.