How to unearth your next winning stock
Reading extensively, making personal observations of brands you use, and building a network of friends who invest can help to enrich your store of investment ideas
INVESTING is about generating profits from the money you put in. However, finding a good stock is not easy.
There were 632 companies listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange at the end of 2023. The Hong Kong and Chinese markets have over 7,200 companies on their three exchanges. In the US, the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq have another 7,300 or so businesses. If you add them up, that’s more than 15,100 companies from these three markets alone. The question is: how do you choose? It’s akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
In my mind, there are three ways you can narrow down your search for the best investment ideas.
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