Popular Holdings is a common enough household name in Singapore and in this post, I will bring you through my thought process when I examine a business. I have attached the operations and financial review from their latest annual report, and for the sake of brevity, I will only be providing some financial ratios.
My own view is that you should never look at the price of a business before deciding whether to invest in it. The price action (or market capitalization) reveals very little about a business, and that should be your last port of call. Price is what you pay, value is what you get.
It is therefore important to establish what a business is worth before deciding whether to invest in it or not.
Balance sheet strength is what I look for instinctively, and I always examine how leveraged a business is. Although leverage can help boost ......