Where do you research?

[springhill]

Where do you research your shares apart from the company website? Is this even reliable information, or spin? What are the best places to source information?

 

[Sean K]

Where do you research your shares apart from the company website? Is this even reliable information, or spin? What are the best places to source information?

Companies have a vested interest in presenting the most accurate information possible otherwise they lose credibility when they get it wrong. For example, announcing something will happen, and geting it drastically wrong, puts them way in the dog house. When you look back through company anns, and follow them long enough you get to know what they're about. I generally put some trust in company public information, if they have produced in the past.

Other than that - broker reports. However, most only go off company reports and some, who are paid for the report by the company, sometimes just rehash exactly what the company tells them. Watch out for that. Read the fine print at the end of the report. I am always suspect over these. And often the 'research' house will have been involved in a listing or raising for the company. Always concerns me.

Other than that - YT.

And, charts.

 

[ROE]

Comsec give you pretty good basic fundamental data for a start
you want more details stuff you probably need to subscribe to independent research company like Aegis for a couple of hundred bucks a year.

 

[theasxgorilla]

I trade largely off charts...although I have a 'comfort' filter for news and fundamentals. I'll take the share I'm stalking and search for it on Google news to see what is being written about it...and check Comsec for things like ex-div dates.

 

[chansw]

Does anyone use Lincoln Stock Doctor or know someone uses it? What is your opinion on that? Also, I found that when I look up the fundamental data like ROI of a company on http://www.investsmart.com.au (data supplied by Aegis) and Westpac Broking (data supplied by Aspect Huntley) are different for the same financial year. Anyone know why this happens? Thanks in advance.

 

[mime]

I watch the finance news on the 7:00 ABC news report and look at the macro economic factors that will influences the various sectors of the market.

 

[springhill]

Thanksto everyone who has taken the time to reply this will all come in very useful, furthermore id also be interested in any magazine publications worth subscribing to, or which newspapers have the best information?

 

[kamil]

Check out BRW (http://www.brw.com.au/mining_energy.aspx).
Also, I find Google alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts) quite useful if properly tuned.

 

[badmarty]

Hers some of my sources of info; fnarena.com, basemetals.com, egoli.com.au, bloomberg.com, tradingroom.com.au there is lots of others if you look around also weekend financial review has some good stuff in it.

 

[ROE]

Thanksto everyone who has taken the time to reply this will all come in very useful, furthermore id also be interested in any magazine publications worth subscribing to, or which newspapers have the best information?

Best to learn yourself rather than follow some subscription advices because everyone has a conflict of interest when it comes to money.

but reading AFR is a good habbit.

I don't subscribe to any shares newsletter I think it's a waste of money because these guys has access to the same information as you, so why listen to them when you can make the decision yourself.
and if these guys are real good they can make billions in the market by picking the winning stocks and not selling the paper .

there is no magic bullet that will make you money and subscribing to some newsletter wont help you either if you are not willing to put in the time to make your money grow

 

[prawn_86]

Thanksto everyone who has taken the time to reply this will all come in very useful, furthermore id also be interested in any magazine publications worth subscribing to, or which newspapers have the best information?

im a big fan of BRW, and am a subsriber. not so much to get info on specific shares, but more so on overall sectors and emerging trends. a very good read

also Time magazine is an excellent read but less business focused and more americanised

 

[nioka]

Where do you research your shares apart from the company website? Is this even reliable information, or spin? What are the best places to source information?

Some of my best tips have come from this forum. e.g. AOE, AGM, but you need to be in early. I also use the money site on 9MSN and look for turn around stocks. You must research carefully. Be prepared to take a profit or there can be only a small window of opportunity especially with oil and mining hopefulls. AFR has a lot of good information but remember too many others get it at the same time or before you get it.