New Willing Learner

[Shelan]

How and Where do I identify a company on the Internet? Do you recommend www.ShareInvestor.com or am I missing out on something? Please share.

[kelvesy]

A stock screener tool, offered by your brokerage, would be useful.

But first, you need to define your set of criteria in your stock search. (ROE, P/B, P/E, Debt ratios, profit margins, EPS, etc.) Understand your company well, read into qualitative items such as management's track record as well, what are they planning next, is their strategy sound, the amount of shareholdings by management, how does the industry performs, and any competitive advantage.

I can recommend this book http://www.amazon.com/Five-Rules-Success...0471686174

[felixleong]

if you are a fundamental investor, you should try to look for a good stock broker who has the same view too
often you can email your broker and ask for some recommendations or research reports etc, he as an experienced investor should be able to help u a lot too

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The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar's Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market

I read this book before too, very good and highly recommended ^^

what i liked most is the end part which they teach you how to analyze different industries, very useful

[yeokiwi]

Maybe you can phrase your question more specifically?
Are you trying to find out more about a company or are you trying to look for a company to invest?

To find out more about a company in Singapore, it's either www.sgx.com or the company's website and annual report.
To look for a company to invest in Singapore, you probably can scan through the entire valuebuddies forum for chats on the companies that the buddies here are interested or the VB-33 link that cyclone san has kindly provided.

I suppose there are tens of these kind of websites in the internet.
But, so far, manual scanning through the entire list of sgx listed stocks is still the best.

[evolance]

i also willing learner...
any specific thread the leads to how the VB-33 is arrived?
ie. via voting by VB, via avg assessment ie. avg intrinsic value/assessed moat etc?
TIA

[Nick]

There is a free stock screener in google finance - https://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener - which is very comprehensive and can be used for numerous stock exchanges around the world.

One of the best place locally is SGX website. Just glance a few annual reports a day and you get to learn what diff companies do. You may also wish to read analyst reports just to learn about the different companies. Once you see something interesting, the manual digging starts.

[kazukirai]

any specific thread the leads to how the VB-33 is arrived?

I believe the VB-33 was created by Cyclone as a tongue-in-cheek index. Those stocks in the VB-33 list are the company threads that are most actively discussed in the forum.

As you all know, most discussed does not mean most widely held by forummers or most undervalued.

[felixleong]

yeah what they say is right
read more annual reports and research reports
eventually you will find good ideas to invest in
when in doubt, just feel free to post on value buddy for discussion ^^

[pianist]

There is a free stock screener in google finance - https://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener - which is very comprehensive and can be used for numerous stock exchanges around the world.

seems not user-friendly, I just tested it..seems like not working and unabling to filter the companies...

[Wildreamz]

This is a good question, and I am trying to find out too.

You can try POEMS stock screener, can screen by market cap, PE, ROE etc. But seems not up to date.

Standard Chartered can filter companies by sector, PE and Yield.

Using bloomberg: http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/compani...singapore/

You can easily make a list of all the listed companies in Singapore and scan through them one by one (I enjoy doing this, but some might find this tedious), using Bloomberg and/or Reuters.

Usually I will check the profitability first by Bloomberg, if I like it, I will go into detail using Reuters.

Hope this helps.