One of the best sectors to own for the long-term is the defense sector. Defense stocks tend to be like consumer staples stocks. They perform well in both good and bad times. One reason is that similar to food and other consumer staple goods, defense is a necessary and integral part of developed countries especially …
The top five tech companies – Amazon.com Inc (AMZN), Apple(AAPL), Alphabet(GOOG) and Facebook(FB) Microsoft(MSFT) have enjoyed tremendous growth through the pandemic. Millions of people working from home and millions going online for shopping have helped these giants. The following charts shows the astonishing rise of these firms. Stock price growth since Dec 31, 2019: Click to enlarge …
The average individual investor in equity markets earns less than the market return. This has been confirmed by many studies. The reason for the difference is that individual investors are affected by many human behavioral issues such as trying to time the market, excessive trading, buying high and selling low, panicking during market corrections, etc. …