Best Investing Books for Christmas (2013)

Discounted Investment Books

With Christmas approaching, you might well be looking for an investing book to relax with. I've been looking and discovered that there are quite a few being discounted in the run up to Christmas. They include some classics and some newer books, so if you want some ideas, check out the list of Discounted Investment Books Here. All of the books on this list have discounts of 10% or more (as at 17th December 2013).

Is the PFD Dough Rising?

Premier Foods (9th December 2013) - Possible Reversal Underway?

Premier Foods (PFD) rose 7p (6.3%) today and in doing so looks as if it may have found support at the 200 day moving average over the past three trading days. Have a look at the graph (below) and see what you think...

As you can see, the RSI is in oversold territory and the OBV remains strong. those of us following PFD could be in for an interesting few weeks. What do you think?

Mick (9th December 2013)

Porta Communications (21st Nov. 2013) : Update

Porta Communication (AIM: PTCM) - Gathering Momentum?

"Trading Update RNS Number : 5786T

"Porta Communications PLC 21 November 2013  (the "Group" or "Porta")

"Trading Update Porta Communications plc, the AIM quoted international marketing and communications business is pleased to announce an update on its trading performance for the second half of 2013. Trading in October has been extremely buoyant and the early indications for the remainder of the year are even better..."
The Technical Analysis also looks interesting...

 
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Rigged For Success?

Lamprell (LAM) - Starting to Move!

The past few days have seen the Lamprell (LAM)share price starting to nudge up (see the Sharescope graph below):

The Key Metrics (below) are also interesting, with the Capitalisation (£406.2m) well below the Turnover (£643.19m), giving a tasty PSR of 0.63. Also, note that the cashflow per share 54.06p (underlined in blue) is well above the last (negative) earnings figure (-24.19p).

 

The Interim Results (29th August 2013 [above]) showed that LAM had returned to profit in the first half and that net cash wwas up from £64.06m to approximately £93.6m ($151.1m) as at 30th June 2013. Since that announcement, I've been stalking LAM and finally, it looks as though my patience may be rewarded. 

What do you think? Is there more upside to come?

Home Retail Breaks Through Resistance

Home Retail (HOME), SP = 162.5p (10th September 2013)

Home Retail has finally managed to break through the resistance line (at 160.7p), see below:

Annotated on the Sharescope graph are my notes, picking up:

• The breakout today
• Volume over the past three or four days
• Rising OBV
• Buy signals on the ADX indicators

Key Metrics

The key metrics (above) show that the cash levels have been improving over the past three years and that the PSR is still low (0.24).

Also noticeable is that the cash flow per share is much higher than the eps (noted in blue above), so putting it all together, it could be that there's scope for a possible re-rating over the next few months.

In my opinion it could be worth watching this one over the next few weeks. What do you think?

Mick (10th September 2013)

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That's The Spirit!

Blavod - Starting To Distill Nicely (21st August 2013)?

Blavod (BES), the vodka, spirits and wine merchant, closed tonight at 0.95p, giving an MCAP of £2.9m and showing a clear breakout from two downtrend lines. The longevity of these downtrends can be seen clearly on the (annotated) Sharescope Graph below...

Looking at the graph for the past 18 months, focusses our attention in to the past few trading days (see the red arrows marked on the graph below)...

Key Metrics

The Key Metrics (above), show that the PSR is only 0.63 and that the debt level has been falling slowly over the past 3 years. This is a result of improving cash flow per share over the same period.

Summary

In summary, the key points to my mind are:

• Clear move upwards approaching the results
• OBV increasing
• Buy Signals on the ADX
• Low PSR (0.63)
• Good Newsflow in 2013 (check this out on the Blavod Website HERE)

Will Blavod mature into a good investment? What do you think?