Doing Research and Analysing Stocks

During non-trading days, I would use some time to do research and analyse stocks as this could help me find ideal investment opportunities. Stock research is useful as it would enable me to assess a company to decide whether it is worth adding or holding to my long term stock portfolio. Online resources would be convenient as most companies' websites now feature an investor information section with financial statements, annual reports, press releases and answers to frequently asked questions. Gathering my stock research materials like financial statements, company announcements and news as well as analyst reports would help me to review the company's financials. It is practical and effective to narrow down to what to look out for. Being a long term investor favouring the value investing approach, I would zero into the company's sales, net income, EPS, P/E, ROA and ROE ratios. Doing so would allow me to be familiarised with the financial health of the company. Besides these financial metrics, I would attempt to find out more on whether the company has sustainable competitive advantages, good management team, and understand the overall industry trends. It would be important to put the research into context, to see how the company fits into the bigger picture by comparing the financial numbers and key metrics to industry averages and other companies in the same industry. By doing sufficient research and analysing stocks, I would be able to identify stocks trading at a discount to their intrinsic value, and therefore more likely to gain reasonable returns in the long term. The more I know about a stock's value, the more I could make informed decisions on investing.
$Alibaba(BABA.US)$
$Alphabet-A(GOOGL.US)$
$Amazon(AMZN.US)$
$American Express(AXP.US)$
$Apple(AAPL.US)$
$Bank of America(BAC.US)$
$Meta Platforms(FB.US)$
$Microsoft(MSFT.US)$
$Netflix(NFLX.US)$
$NVIDIA(NVDA.US)$
$Block(SQ.US)$
$Tesla(TSLA.US)$