QUOTE(Nemozai @ Apr 24 2017, 12:31 AM)
I have doubt with books because I'm afraid some sections of those books from US may only apply to US stock market. Does this happen to be the case?
Can these two books be apply in our market? Thanks for your guidance
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)
Security Analysis, Sixth Edition (Leather Bound Edition)
Financial analysis basically is rather the same across, but due to difference in corporate practice, culture, how management being run even company history etc, it may affect how the company is valued by investors aka how the share price performance.
Eg,
Base on financial figure, some so called "red chips" were super cheap and extreme value, hard to resist.
Share price Rm0.10
NTA RM1.00
PE 1-3
Super duper undervalued and cheap.
But we know some of the outcome of it, despite look super duper cheap on paper.
Investing is not a science formula like everytime 1+1 must be equal to 2.
Today ABC company may be highly valued, but few years later due to obsolete/change in technology, change of favour of consumer pattern etc, its value can diminish quickly one.
We never know. This is something any book won't able tell us one.
In stock market, whenever we are paying a share price level, we are buying the company "future" not buying the past.
While the flaw of financial analysis is we are buying based on the figure that already happened aka the past.
So there is some "art" in investing as well.
Figure serves as guidance, but not a definite factor.
Some old timers using "art" or "instinct" of investing, only investing in some well known good management company that always rewarding the shareholders.
They do pretty well in the stock market, in fact may earn a fortune with long term holding.
While another person may be always punching figure doing PE, NTA count, financial analysis ended up bought tons of so called "red chip".