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Every morning I take a 10 minute tour of the Stockrank Movers to see if any of companies in my universe have been upgraded by >10 units. Since their results 2 days ago the newly computed James Fisher and Sons (LON:FSJ) numbers have gained +30 to 91 for Stockrank score and the Quality score has jumped +35 to 89.  James Fisher was already showing excellent…

Rarely do the stars align and the share price not follow, but the Churchill China (LON:CHH) price has been flat in spite of a recent upbeat trading update.... performance will be ahead of our earlier expectations for the full year. With a Quality Rank of 99, Financial Health F score of 9 and bountiful  return numbers which have improved consistently for the last 5 years,…

A new podcast with Vanguard’s Factor manager, Liqian Ren. Her funds include Quality, Momentum, Value and Multifactor (Stockrank) style ETFs. As an aside Liqian suggests that in the US during the last 10 years Quality has outperformed Value and Momentum and that this is logical because high Quality companies will produce more organic growth. Confirmation bias perhaps, but this style makes a lot of sense…

For those of you interested in Factor investing I have come across a new US series. It's called Flirting with Models which focuses on the quantitative and human aspects of Investing. Particularly good are the Momentum interviews with Adam Butler and Jack Vogel.Pearls of analytical wisdom and all for free.  Enjoy...https://blog.thinknewfound.com...

Just occasionally a book, or an interview gives me a little more insight into my preferred investing method namely Growth/QM. So it is with the interview with the Growth fund CEO Paul Black of WCM Investment with $200B of assets under management. It is a fascinating discussion which includes the desirability of Moat company culture aligning with its competitive advantage. Almost as an aside Paul…

I wouldn't want to sit and read Reminiscences of a Stock Operator either, but the audiobook is easy listening and exceptionally well narrated. I must have played it 3 or 4x on long journeys over the last 5 years.  Whilst Jesse was undoubtedly a gifted "trader", there are one or two snippets in the book that hold true for "investors" too.........After spending many years in…

I highly recommend the brilliantly narrated Audible audiobook about Jesse's life and trading which was first published in 1923: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, by Edwin Lefevre....https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reminiscences-Stock-Operator-Edwin-Lefevre/dp/1946963062

£D4T4 gives off a strong message being: "confident in delivering results that will be in line with expectations for the financial year 2019-2020, so early in this financial year.Worth noting its particularly, strong demand for our Celebrus software and a move to a recurring revenue model.  Declaration - My 2nd biggest holding.  Ian

Yes,  I agree with the Steven English interviews compliments. He strikes me as of a balanced combination of many sage Guru investors. Excellent.I gather he is speaking at the May Mello Event on the Thursday - I look forward to it.

Nick, I see that most of the shares passing this screen have very high Q scores, but that neither high Q score nor M score alone proved resilient over the last 6 months. Could it be that just combining high Q and high M (high QM) would be resilient? I note that the companies the screen has shortlisted all have low Beta’s as well as…