Ball Corporation (NYSE:BALL) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of aluminium packaging for beverage, personal care, and household products. On top of that, it is also in the aerospace business, where it produces spacecraft, instruments and sensors, radio frequency systems and components, data exploitation solutions, and a variety of advanced technologies and products that enable weather prediction and climate change monitoring, as well as deep space missions. In this post, you will find my review of the US-listed company’s historical financial performance, debt profile, and dividend payouts to shareholders over the last 8 years (between FY2015 and FY2022). Additionally, you will also find out whether at its current traded price, is Ball Corporation considered ‘cheap’ or ‘expensive’, along with my ‘fair value’ price of the company…
A Summary of Frasers Centrepoint Trust’s Annual Report for FY2022/23
Following the conclusion of its financial year on 30 September, Frasers Centrepoint Trust (SGX:J69U) released its annual report for the FY2022/23 this morning (22 December). In this post, you will find my summary of the report, together with details about its upcoming AGM…
Linde Plc: What You Need to Know about the Largest Industrial Gas Company in the World
Linde Plc (NASDAQ:LIN) is the world’s largest producer of industrial gas, where its customers are companies in the healthcare, chemicals and energy, manufacturing, metals and mining, food and beverage, and electronics sectors. The company is a constituent of the S&P 500 Index, and it has the heaviest weightage in the SPDR Basic Materials ETF. In this post, you will find a detailed review of the company – including more information about its businesses, its financial performance, debt profile, and dividend payout recorded over the last 5 years (between FY2018 and FY2022), as well as whether its current traded price is considered to be ‘cheap’ or ‘expensive’…
Jun Yuan’s 2023 Year in Review
Time flies, Christmas is just 6 days away, and 2024 just slightly under 2 weeks away. Just as I have been doing in previous years, I will do a review of my year around this time, and this year is no different – in today’s post, you will find a review of my investment portfolio’s performance, along with lessons learned as a presenter, speaker, and also as an author (all of which totally new to me). On top of that, I’ll also be sharing some of the plans I have for the year 2024 ahead…
e.l.f. Beauty Inc.: The Numbers Behind the Beauty Company
e.l.f. Beauty Inc. (NYSE:ELF) is a multi-branded beauty company that offers inclusive, accessible, clean, vegan, and cruelty-free cosmetics and skincare products. Currently, the company’s catalogue of products are branded under the following: e.l.f. Cosmetics, e.l.f. SKIN, Well People, Keys Soulcare, and Naturium. As suggested in the title of the post, you will learn about the beauty company’s key financial performances as well as its debt profile reported in the last 4 years (i.e., between FY2019/20 and FY2022/23). On top of that, I will also be sharing with you whether its current traded price is considered to be ‘cheap’ or ‘expensive’, and also my ‘fair value’ price of the company based on its 4-year valuation…
The Impact of Online Shopping, Work from Home, and High Interest Rates on the Singapore REIT Industry
The first REIT was listed on the Singapore Exchange back in 2002. Since then, there are now more than 40 REITs for retail investors to choose from. These REITs are popular among retail investors for its high distribution yield (between 5-6% on average). However, the Covid-19 pandemic back in 2020 saw new habits being formed, including online shopping and working from home (which disrupted the retail and office industries respectively). Coupled with the current high interest rate environment (with interest rates set to stay higher for longer due to the stubbornly high inflation), many retail investors are concerned about the viability of REITs as an investment option to build their income portfolio. In today’s post, you can find my personal opinion on each of these concerns…
The Basics You Need to Know about the iShares Russell 2000 ETF
The iShares Russell 2000 ETF (NYSE ARCA:IWM) tracks the performance of the Russell 2000 Index – as the name suggests, the index comprises 2,000 of the smallest US-listed companies by market capitalisation. This post will equip you with the basics you need to know about the ETF (for those of you who are new to it…)
What You Need To Know about the ‘Magnificent Seven’ in the US Market
‘Magnificent Seven’ in the US market is a term coined by analysts from the Bank of America Corporation to refer to the following 7 companies (by alphabetical order): Alphabet Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc, Meta Platforms Inc., Microsoft Corporation, NVIDIA Corporation, and Tesla Inc. You can learn more about each of these companies in terms of its businesses and how they generate their revenue, along with a highlight of their latest financial results in this post…
The 11 Sectors Making up the S&P 500 Index
Most people know that the S&P 500 Index tracks the performance of the top 500 American companies by market capitalisation, and that 8 out of 10 of the top 10 companies are technology companies. However, many people are not aware that the companies within the index are from 11 different sectors, and that you have the option to invest in individual sectors (through the indexes that track them). In this post, you will learn what each of the 11 sectors are, along with some basic information about them…
Is Futu Holdings Ltd a ‘Buy’?
Futu Holdings Limited (NASDAQ:FUTU) is in the business of offering market data, financial news, interactive social features, and investor education on its digital platforms Futubull as well as MooMoo (the latter should be very familiar to us Singaporean investors.) In this post, let us find out more about the US-listed company by looking at its financial performance and debt profile to find out whether the company is a ‘buy’…
