Is Your Company Ready To Go Public?Written by William Cate
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A public company can attract shareholders from wherever it sells its products or services. Until your company's product or service has a regional market and preferably a national market, you aren't ready to go public. Investors who can't see that your product or service is locally available won't invest. This is reason that a local department store, restaurant or fun park can't attract national investors. Can your management team grow your company? If not, you aren't ready to go public. Your management team is your key to effectively using your equity financing. If they lack relevant education and work experience, odds of your company's success don't justify taking your company public. Unless your company needs money to grow, you aren't ready to go public. The public process adds another level of costs and responsibilities on your management team. To contact author: Visit Beowulf Investments website: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] Or, visit Global Village Investment Club Website: [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]
He has been the Managing Director of Beowulf Investments [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/] since 1981 and is the Executive Director of the Global Village Investment Club [http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]
| | Investing in the Stock MarketWritten by Charles M. O'Melia
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And then there are those words in English language where their meaning appears to be backward, so to speak - like parkway and driveway. When my car is parked at home, I would think it would be parked on, well, a parkway -and when I'm driving on road somewhere, I would think I'd be driving on a - a driveway. In stock market world, I think word analyst is a perfect word in English language and stockbroker sounds right to me ,too. And this leads me to what I call brainwashing mantras of Wall Street. The brainwashing mantras of Wall Street may take form of a number, such as a stock rating of 1, 2, 3 etc. Or mantras may be a star, 1 star, 2 stars, 3 stars etc. The mantras may be a word or a group of words - attractive, unattractive, neutral, market perform, market out-perform, market-underweight, market equal-weight, market over-weight, sector perform, stong buy, buy, sell, strong sell. These mantras are so ingrained in Wall Street and investor's minds that they have created multi-billion dollar industries. There are other types of mantras, such as RSI (relative strength index-a trading volume indicator), Bollinger Bands (named after its creator John Bollinger(he use to be a regular on CNBC)and bands deal with channel a stock trades in,in relation to its 'moving average'- another mantra). Stochastics (used to tell if a stock is 75% over-bought - too many people have been buying) or 25% over-sold (too many people have been selling), Momentum, MACD (Moving Average Convergence/Divergence-price of stock in relation, up or down, to its moving average, 50-day, 200-day moving averages, triple bottoms and tops, pendants, flags, bear and bull markets, head and shoulders formations, double bottoms, PE ratios etc,etc,etc. All these mantras serve a purpose -(and, I admit, if you are going to trade market they are useful)- they create commissions! And in my opinion, have no meaning what-so-ever for long-term, dollar-cost averaging, buying investor of company's shares, free of commission charges, whose companies raise their dividend every year, with investor's idea or purpose being to provide an 85% tax-free income, through ever-increasing dividends for rest of their lives, no matter what price of stock at any given time in market place be. (Whew! What a sentence!)For more information on 'The Stockopoly Plan' visit website www.thestockopolyplan.com or send an e-mail - mailto: charles@thestockopolyplan.com
An indiviual investor with almost 40 years of experience and passion for the stock market. Author of the book 'The Stockopoly Plan', soon to be published by American-Book Publishing. The introduction to 'The Stockopoly Plan' and excerpts from the book can be found at http://www.thestockopolyplan.com
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