Chapter 1: You can be a Stock Market Analyst
Updated: August 2024 If you are reading this, the chances are that you’ve decided to take control of your investments or are doing so already.
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Step-by-Step Guide to Investing
This Step-by-Step guide to Investing shows you how to understand company finances, how to value shares and how to practise certain types of investing strategies. As well as what to look out for and how you can avoid simple mistakes. Learn to invest like a professional from a professional. This guide was created exclusively for ShareScope by former investment analyst, author and renowned financial journalist Phil Oakley.
Chapter 2: Balance sheets
Updated: August 2024 ShareScope is packed full of useful financial data. This data holds the key to understanding the financial health and value of any
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13th October 2015
Chapter 3: Analysing balance sheets
Updated: August 2024 In the previous chapter, we looked at how a balance sheet was put together and the numbers that go into it. In
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12th October 2015
Chapter 4: Income statements
Updated: August 2024 Hopefully, you will now understand balance sheets and how important and useful they are. Let’s move on to a set of numbers
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11th October 2015
Chapter 5: Analysing income statements
Updated: August 2024 Now that we’ve dealt with the basic format of an income statement it’s time to move on and show you how ShareScope
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10th October 2015
Chapter 6: The cash flow statement
Updated: August 2024 The last four chapters have been spent looking at the balance sheet and income statement and how to use them. In this
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9th October 2015
Chapter 7: Analysing cash flow statements
Updated: August 2024 We did a little bit of cash flow analysis in the last chapter. In this one, we look at the cash flow
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8th October 2015
Chapter 8: Is this a good business?
Updated: August 2024 In this chapter, we look at ways to measure how good a company is at generating profits from the resources at its
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7th October 2015
Chapter 9: Share valuations
Updated: August 2024 In the previous chapter, we looked at how to find out if a company was any good or not. In a nutshell,
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6th October 2015
Chapter 10: Value investing
Updated: August 2024 In the next three chapters we are going to be looking at three different styles of investing, starting with Value investing. The
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5th October 2015
Chapter 11: Dividend investing
Updated: August 2024 If you are watching or listening to the news at the end of the day you will usually be told what happened
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4th October 2015
Chapter 12: Growth investing
Updated: August 2024 The last couple of chapters have focused on two particular styles of investing – value investing and dividend investing. Both these approaches
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3rd October 2015
Chapter 13: Investing in bonds
Updated: August 2024 Despite its name, ShareScope is not just all about shares. It can help you with other investments as well. In this chapter,
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2nd October 2015
Chapter 14: Putting it all together
Updated: August 2024 In this final chapter, I use the data and tools in ShareScope to show you how I analyse shares. Even if you
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1st October 2015