Oriental Watch still has a huge pile of excess cash

Oriental Watch completed its conditional share buy back offer and reported H1 results.

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Thoughts on my rising Pandora position

I trimmed my position in Pandora during this year after a strong rebound of the share price. It continued to perform very strongly and it is again time to decide about my rising Pandora position. The share price has just crossed my last fair value estimate …

Book-reviews: NSA and Eine Billion Dollar by Andreas Eschbach (non-investment related)

The last two books I finished were both from Andreas Eschbach and I read them in German. The two books were non-investment related, but just good books. And, they gave me food-for-thought!

Food for Thought #19 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: TME, Tesla, Sberbank, financial markets (and its randomness), a wonderful blog, the economics of asset management, …

Food for Thought #18 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: A Must-Watch-Video!, Quality Shareholders, software, Big Lessons rfom History, Overton Window, Oil majors, our tax ignorance, …

Quicky #11 on Quadient (QDT), fka Neopost (NEO)

This is part #11 in my series on new companies. Since I bought some share of Neopost, now Quadient, in late Sept 2016 as a turnaround speculation, I guess it is time to take a closer look …

Tencent Music continues to deliver Superior Value to Users but Politics is a risk! (Q3 2020)

TME reported Q3 2020 results on Nov 10th. Key operational metrics are good. But Chinese politics is targeting the tech sector and its monopolies …

I looked at the Banking Industry and I invested in this Asian company!

This is part six and at the same time the last piece of my series on banks, for the time being. In this post I will do a quick recap of the series and take a look at my learnings.

More important for you: I analysed a company I had on my to-do-list for some time now …

Update on SoftBank after Q2 2020 results

SoftBank Group (9984 JP) reported Q2 results, for the period ending Sept 30, 2020.

The 100-Dollar-Company or The Importance of Time (for High Returns)

Return metrics are usually normalized to annual periods. And this is because the dimension of time plays a crucial role in the realm of investment returns.

Food for Thought #17 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: equity markets, stock exchanges, pipe, GMO, and Q3 updates on SES SA, Progressive

A General Risk Framework

According to academia, the cost of equity can be calculated using the CAPM, a central model to modern financial theory. But even Damodaran critizes this as a statistical approach usually considered too narrowly. Damodaran tends to and recommends to think about business risk in a more general sense first, without applying sophisticated and data-heavy statistical methods (which might have its place).

Pandora Q3 2020: faces big risks from new lockdowns but turnaround is well underway

On Nov 3rd, Pandora reported solid Q3 results. New lockdowns represent a risk, especially taking into account the importance of seasonal business within Christmas time.

Food for Thought #16 // Links🔗

This time the most interesting content I stumbled over includes: Pearson, stock options, the world in 10 years, Guy Spier, value investing, good questions for investors, …

Quicky #10 on Aareal Bank

This is part five of my mini series on banks and part #10 within my series of Quickies on new companies.

Book review: Tesla, Elon Musk and the EV revolution

Vitaliy Katsenelson is one of my favorite authors of high-quality investment content. This is why I read his research about electric vehicles or EVs and many of his opinion pieces about Tesla some months ago (I believe it was an email-series). Anyway, some days ago I got to know that he offers his book Tesla, Elon Musk and the EV revolution for free for a few days. Beyond question, I read his book!

Quicky #9 on Sberbank

This is part four of my mini series on banks and part #9 within my series of Quickies on new companies.

My QnA with Morgan Housel (collaborative)

Morgan Housel (from collaborative fund) has a few very good questions, and I have a few answers, most likely not as good as his questions, though. Please do not take my post too seriously, but …

Quicky #8 on Bed Bath and Beyond after BBBY’s 2020 Investor Day

Did the turnaround of Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) finally kick off? New management was put in place and changed some things for good. Then the global pandemic and checks from the government set the stage for the long-awaited turnaround. After todays virtual investor day, it is time for a quicky …

Quicky #7 on Hingham (HIFS US)

This is part three of my mini series on banks and part #7 within my series of Quickies on new companies.

What is right for You: Value or Growth Investing? And is value investing dead?

The fight between the two corners has been going on forever and in recent years ‘growth investing’ might have had the upper hand, but I believe discussions mostly miss the point! I believe it is time to classify the two from the view of a value investor in a broader sense. I hope I can provide some clarity on the matter …

Quicky #6 on Svenska Handelsbanken

This is part two of my mini series on banks and part #6 within my series of Quickies on new companies.

Links🔗: Food for Thought #15

Below you find the most interesting investment-related content and thought-provoking articels I stumbled about in the recent past. Enjoy reads about: investment vehicles, China, 100 baggers, Goldman Sachs, 1MDB, Gilead, Intel, SES, Flow Traders, SPACs, … (this one got a bit longer far too long)

Quicky about Banking Industry

This is a primer for some Quickies about Banks, getting a general understanding of the banking industry …

Quicky #5 on Gilead

This is part #5 on Gilead Sciences, Inc. of which I own shares (GILD US) since a few years without doing a thorough company analysis so far. The share price of GILD saw a recent high of $84 on remdesivir hopes in late April, but is now at a multi-year low of $60. Time for me to take a look …