Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Bausch, or AB-Inbev (ANH), is the world's largest brewer of beer, operating in both first world countries and emerging markets. On 10th October 2016, AB-Inbev bought out SABMillar for $107bn. This massive acquisition (a world record) left ANH with over $104bn in debt – a burden which it is only now beginning to eliminate. It expects to bring that debt down in the second half of 2019. AB Inbev trades on the
Rand Strength
For most of June and July this year, the rand has been strengthening as international investors became more confident of the reforms which the Ramaphosa administration is implementing. It has, of course, been very volatile because it is buffeted by many factors which are outside South Africa – most notably the probable reduction of interest rates in the US and various developments in other emerging economies. But Ramaphosa’s
S&P500 Going to 3506
In December 2016 we wrote an article on the use of a Point and Figure (P&F) horizontal count to forecast the future of the S&P500 index. At the time, the S&P had been in a long sideways pattern which made a good horizontal count possible once there was an upside breakout. In our article, we published this P&F chart to explain
Omnia
Omnia (OMN) is at an interesting point. The share price has been falling since its peak of R242 made in September of 2014. It is currently trading below R30. This should be seen in the context of its net asset value (NAV) which was R105 on 31st March 2019. The question that private investors should be asking is, “Does this represent an opportunity?†On the face of it, this is a massive blue chip company
Your Stop Loss Strategy - Example of Capitec
It has been well said that the secret of success in the share market is to cut your losers and keep your winners. And that implies some sort of stop-loss strategy (if you are not familiar with the concept of a stop-loss strategy, please read module 12 of the PDSnet Online Investment Course). We all tend to get emotionally involved with the shares that we buy and those