₦airaland Forum

Dexterax: If he bought 1,000,000 units of EVANSMED between 15th and 19th March this year, his 1,000,000 units of EVANSMED (valued @ N1,700,000 disregarding transaction fees and demand/supply dynamics) would be worth N 4,490,000 by close of business on Friday, 19th July, 2013.

Nigeria has a lot of dislocations and mispriced bets that can be exploited if you know where to look!

oluwamichael: Rules of prudent investment
Don't invest in wht u don't know
No investment in Nigeria of today can give u 4million if u invest 1million so beware.
My question is : Do u have time to monitor the growth of the business you want to venture into? If yes
Consider starting poultry business, fishery and agric export
Consider investing in Printing press.
Consider agency/wholesale business @ PZ -----this requires that u register with PZ


Pls note that if your 2.5 is not prudently spent ----------it would technically be a .

If he bought 1,000,000 units of EVANSMED between 15th and 19th March this year, his 1,000,000 units of EVANSMED (valued @ N1,700,000 disregarding transaction fees and demand/supply dynamics) would be worth N 4,490,000 by close of business on Friday, 19th July, 2013.

jposuagwu: jideflash: should we expect courtville to fall to 0.50 again soon (mayb after d issuance of d bonus), so i can accummulate enuff ...

Courtville come down to 50k with all its potentials? Never again! Courtville is headed up. In a year's time, it should be trading above N2.

Risk is always in the future, not in the past and like Graham remarked, "obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors". Potentials remain potentials, nothing more.

kachaskach: why is oando share price falling despite impressive 1st quarter result.? is there any info the investing public needs to have bt doesn't? pls reply

I may not be able to supply a single strong CAUSE, but consider the CORRELATION between the rise in US shale exploration and production and the downward pressure on the price of crude oil. Also consider the slowing demand from China as her investment drive cools. These various global forces reinforce in complex ways and may influence the outlook on small companies like OANDO. Of course, there could also be local reasons like the political problems associated with the passing of the Petroleum Industry Bill. All in all, the market prices in these issues leading to the expression of investors' feelings in the market price of OANDO.

olas2u: what is your point

The question is pretty clear I guess:

"...what metrics should one consider in making a final investment decision"

The business models of Flour Mills and Dangote Group are strikingly different. For an investor with a fundamentals approach to the financial markets (as against focusing on technical price movements), what metrics should one consider in making a final investment decision?

[For instance, Dangote utilizes specificity (e.g. Dangote Flour, Dangote Sugar, etc), while Flour Mills operates as a conglomerate and both are respectively listed on the exchange accordingly.]

ihedioramma: WHAT IS THERE NEW NAME NOW? TRY AND GET TO US WHAT IT TALK'S TO OPEN ACCOUNT WITH THEM AND THE MINIMUM THEY TALK TO INVEST FOR INVESTOR?.

Please check out: www.investment-one.com for more information. Their address on Victoria Island is also on the site.

Recent reports of the earnings of Nigerian banks have highlighted the fact that the so-called Big 4 or Big 5 or Big whatever are generating more than 50% of the industry's profits.

Let's play the following thought experiment: if mergers (and acquisitions) are going to happen in the banking sector,

- who do you think will merge with (or acquire) who (e.g. Access Bank + Fidelity Bank);
- why do you think they will merge (or acquire) and
- how will you play the shares concerned if you (hypothetically) own them?

I run a stockbroking account with Investment One (formerly GTB Asset Management). Minimum as @ when I opened was N50,000.00. Not sure what it is now. I must say, their services are really good!

Elai147: I will never purchase shares of companies that are not financially stable or has any tendency of future acquisition by another company in the same sector. I lost my 100,000 units of Bank PHB shares due to AMCON acquisition. My 122,000 units of Oceanic Bank shares has now turned to 6,100 units of ETI due to the recent acquisition of oceanic bank by Ecobank Transnational Incorporated.

I will also not buy more shares from insurance sector for now. The Nigerian economy is expanding but this sector is underachieving due lack of exposure of individuals to the sector. Most individuals and businesses are not obtaining insurance coverage compared to the way insurance companies are being patronised in the western world hence, the reason for their underachievement. My opinion..

The insurance sector is in a catch-22 situation. Think about companies asking fresh graduates for 5 years of experience to gain employment. Obviously the question is: Where do they get the experience from? In the case of insurance companies, where do they get the strong capital base from? Instead, premiums are leaving Nigerian shores (in brazen disobedience to the provisions of the Local Content Act of 2010).

elampiro: Stop deceiving people. What of those that bought at high price in 2007 before the crash? People lost up to 70% to 90% of their money.

Those who bought shares in 2007 at such high multiples were fools. The ABC of investing is to buy LOW and sell HIGH, not the converse. By buying at such high prices, they disobeyed the principle of a Margin of Safety, so when foreign investors who own substantial blocks of Nigerian company stocks decided to liquidate their investments in order to respond to margin calls in their own domestic developed markets, stock prices crashed in Nigeria. If Nigerian investors had bought at prices below intrinsic value, they would've had much slimmer losses.