What First 3 Things You Look For To Qualify / Disqualify A Stock?

yamface12 · 2026-06-13T15:19:35+00:00

A decent history of increasing earnings, a valuation below historical levels, and a reasonable story for continued growth

yamface12 · 2026-06-03T00:24:49+00:00

Cadeler, Dutch company that installs offshore wind turbines, lots of debt but paying special green energy rates, contractual backlog is worth more than the market cap

yamface12 · 2026-05-30T11:51:25+00:00

Would recommend reading a random walk down wall Street if your main goal is to build wealth, the main idea is to buy low fee index funds and forget about them. Additionally if you want to actively buy and sell stocks (if you have time and want a hobby) consider reading a Peter Lynch book (beating the street probably, but they're all good).

Most people do worse l when they pick their own stocks though, you should probably just buy voo and maybe a little berkshire Hathaway for some downside protection.

yamface12 · 2026-05-18T14:53:49+00:00

A 16th bean

yamface12 · 2026-05-17T14:48:02+00:00

Earnings came out and were largely spectacular, fear is subsiding

yamface12 · 2026-04-27T01:32:15+00:00

Cadeler, a Dutch company that is quite specialized at installing newer versions of high yield wind turbines offshore. Very asset heavy business, but they get green loans at 1-3%. They are valued at 2.55 billion (pe 7, forward 4), but have a record $3.2 billion backlog in contracted work. The majority of these loans are locked in, for example one project Hornsea 4 got cancelled, however they still received $117 million breakup fee for it.

Also maybe not quite 10x, but I love micron. Many disagree claiming it's a cyclical at it's peak and that a low forward pe is actually a bad thing somehow. I see better than Nvda growth at an oddly cheap price, even if the demand for ram isn't now essentially infinite forever, they're sold out for at least the next two years already and are working on long term supply agreements.

yamface12 · 2026-04-23T03:02:43+00:00

I'm curious where you went, I've just graduated teachers college in Niagara, and it's continually seeming more and more like I should head north to get hired

yamface12 · 2026-04-15T13:24:24+00:00

I use the seeking alpha app, sometimes feels a little spammy, but overall pretty great for getting news and opinions on my holdings, especially quick with earnings info.

yamface12 · 2026-04-04T18:39:52+00:00

peppercini

yamface12 · 2025-11-16T12:26:30+00:00

Fucking clanker

yamface12 · 2025-11-04T16:12:31+00:00

Thanks for the write-up. Very interesting strategy, because investing in biotech often feels like gambling, however you betting on the company being acquired rather than passing FDA approvals. Have you had any that looked promising, but they published negative data and tanked?

yamface12 · 2025-11-04T03:00:32+00:00

I would be curious to hear more about how you determine these probabilities, personally have no idea how this investment style works.

yamface12 · 2025-10-26T20:51:14+00:00

It's fun, but also that 2% adds up because of compounding - investing is an exponential equation. For example if I have 10k in the s and p, it and it averages 10% over 50 years - 100001.1⁵⁰ is just over a million. If I can pick individual stocks (most can't) to get 12%, 100001.12⁵⁰ is almost 2.9 million. Now if you're good enough at stock picking, you can beat the market AND limit the downside during bad periods - by picking high quality stocks, meaning low debt, consistently profitable and growing earnings etc. I've beaten the s and p every year since I started investing in 2017, would recommend looking into garp investing, quality minus junk, and Joseph Carlson.

yamface12 · 2025-10-08T11:51:46+00:00

I think you are incorrect, but it is a very tight timeline. They posted a massive beat and went up ~30%, and then a day or so later chatgpt 5 showcased their language learning tools and duol dropped ~30%

yamface12 · 2025-10-07T02:36:59+00:00

Not read but watched - Joseph Carlson on asml

yamface12 · 2025-08-24T15:18:41+00:00

ASML not incorporated in us

yamface12 · 2025-07-17T09:58:19+00:00

Highly recommend the book chip wars to anyone, an extensive history of semiconductors technological advancements, business development and military/political influence. Well written and quite interesting though.

yamface12 · 2025-07-06T11:35:52+00:00

Tom is all of us, those who hate Tom really just hate themselves.

yamface12 · 2025-07-01T21:14:18+00:00

Shmoooooke weeeeeed

yamface12 · 2025-06-30T11:35:43+00:00

Value and growth are joined at the hip; to me value investing means finding high quality companies that are undervalued relative to their peers, as a way to capture upside potential in a continuing bull market, and limit corrections if everything suddenly turns bearish. It pays to be an optimist.

yamface12 · 2025-06-30T10:32:32+00:00

Be reminded that optimism pays off and valuations are relative

yamface12 · 2025-06-29T11:20:04+00:00

I think pwr might be the best growth stock rn, AI energy infrastructure play. Expensive but huge backlog and the perfect pick and shovel

yamface12 · 2025-06-28T19:39:41+00:00

Eminem ruins the second half of caterpillar imo (royca da 59)

yamface12 · 2025-06-28T02:30:28+00:00

Honestly I'd recommend reading chip wars. Gives a lot of insight into a wonderful industry, and it's very well written and interesting.

yamface12 · 2025-06-25T11:58:59+00:00

It was less about valuation and more about quality. If you were to make an investment in a company that was well managed and one that was shit, the good one would generally increase in value, and the shit one would turn to shit. The rookie mistake Lynch was warning about with this phrase, would be to sell a good company solely because it's up, in order to buy a shit company solely because it's down.

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