[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images When Greggs (LSE:GRG) shares were trading at over £30, I couldn’t quite believe it. Either I was missing something, or as I suspected, retail investors were simply following the money. The stock had been moving in the right direction for a while and everyone knows the company — it appeared to have operational momentum. Sounds like a great opportunity right? The issue is that’s not how the stock market works. And it’s often how retail investors, especially novice ones, get their fingers burned. The positive twist here is that we can all become better investors.…
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[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Betting against the Rolls-Royce (LSE: RR) share price probably counts as one of the worst strategies on the FTSE 100. We’re talking about a stock that’s rocketed 1,250% in five years and still doesn’t seem to know how to stop. Investors who banked profits a year ago will be kicking themselves today, with the shares more than doubling in the past 12 months alone. But that’s history. As ever, what matters is what happens next. Can it really keep climbing like this? Rolls-Royce should have run out of steam months ago. The so-called ‘new manager…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images I have both a SIPP and a Stocks and Shares ISA. So, when I have some spare cash to invest, I have a decision about what platform to use. As I see it, both have some potential pros and cons. Let’s take a look at them. Please note that tax treatment depends on the individual circumstances of each client and may be subject to change in future. The content in this article is provided for information purposes only. It is not intended to be, neither does it constitute, any form of tax advice. Readers are…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Palantir Technologies (NASDAQ:PLTR) stock joined the S&P 500 in September 2024. But just 16 months before then it was trading for $7, and looked more likely destined for semi-obscurity than the prestigious blue-chip index. Fast forward to today, Palantir stock has skyrocketed to around $145. For those keeping score, that’s an eye-popping gain of almost 1,900%! Clearly, anyone who invested just under three years ago has made out like a bandit. They might even be a paper millionaire, depending on whether or not they backed up the truck. But the question now is, can this…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images The best time to buy shares is when prices are low. But that’s easier said than done – when stocks are crashing it’s usually because investors are worried about the underlying business somehow. That’s the case with software stocks at the moment. With valuation multiples at levels investors could only have dreamed of for the last decade I think there are some real opportunities to consider. What’s the risk? Right now, the concern with software is that artificial intelligence (AI) increases competition. And the danger is that this could force existing companies to compete on…
[ad_1] Image source: Aston Martin How can the shares of a luxury carmaker like Aston Martin Lagonda (LSE: AML) sell for pennies? After all, Porsche Automobil Holding has a share price of over €36, while US-listed Ferrari shares change hands for $342 apiece. Yet the Aston Martin share price is just a few pennied from its all-time low, at around 61p! Given how valuable some luxury carmakers can be – and Aston Martin’s legendary brand and deep-pocketed customer base – could the current share price turn out to be a potential bargain for a long-term shareholder like me? Why a…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Barclays (LSE: BARC) shares have got game as they say across the Atlantic. They’re up almost 75% over the past year and around 250% over five. With a time machine, they’d be a slam-dunk buy. Sadly, there’s no time machine, and every bull run brings risks. So is this still a killer stock today? Like all the FTSE 100 banks, Barclays has been boosted by several years of higher interest rates, which allows it to widen the gap between what it pays savers and charges borrowers. It’s a slippery trick, but hugely profitable. Unlike some…
[ad_1] For the past 15 years, investors have been rewarded for doing one thing well: owning the S&P 500. Cap-weighted, growth-heavy portfolios dominated returns and reinforced expectations that strong recent performance would persist. The risk is not what those portfolios delivered, but what investors now assume they will deliver next, and how those assumptions hold up once the objective shifts from beating a benchmark to funding retirement income. When success is defined by generating consistent, absolute returns rather than relative outperformance, the trade-offs change. Drawdowns matter more, volatility becomes asymmetric, and the order of returns can overwhelm long-term averages, particularly…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Earning a second income by investing in blue-chip dividend shares is a common approach for people to try and have more cash without needing to do more work for it. How might it work? Here is how someone could set up a second income plan, in five steps. 1. Start putting money aside The first step would be to start putting money aside on a regular basis. How much depends on what someone can spare. In this example I will use £500 a month. The same approach could work with less or more, but would…
[ad_1] Image source: Getty Images Some of the UK’s highest-quality shares have been falling sharply. And while this has been a huge problem for some fund managers, it could also be a massive opportunity. Warren Buffett says that the time to be greedy in the stock market is when others are fearful. So while investors need to think carefully about the risks, this could be a great time to think about buying. Nick Train Nick Train, who manages the Finsbury Growth & Income Trust has a portfolio that’s dominated by UK stocks. And it’s fared badly in recent years as…