Shares & Derivatives
A Look At Popular Holdings
By The Asia Report  •  August 4, 2012
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 ......
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Richard is passionate about teaching the principles of value investing to people from all walks of life. Richard is also a frequent guest speaker on investing and financial markets at institutions such as University College London and the London School of Economics, and at investment conferences held in Singapore ...
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