I recently received the following question from a Red Hot Penny Shares member, “Francois, should we follow institutional investors when investing in Penny Shares? How do we know where the big money is being put?”
My immediate answer to this is that the big money (institutional investors) isn't necessarily the smart money…
The f act of the matter is, here at Red Hot Penny Shares, we try... ››› more
I see this question often. If you've been wondering how you can get your investment portfolio started quickly if you don't have R10,000, this guide is for you!
A solution that could help you save up R10,000 in as little as four months!
I recently had a chat with my colleague Aiden Sookdin.
He told me about a programme he’s running to help people free up as much as... ››› more
I get many questions from readers every day. And, lately I've noticed a couple trends - investors tend to make the same mistakes, in different ways.
Which is why, today I'd like to show you two common investment mistakes - and a plan you can follow to make sure you never make them again!
Investment Mistake #1 – Investors bet the bank when they shouldn’t!
Penny Shares can go up... ››› more
If there's one thing about investing you absolutely have to understand it's this strategy...
Not only will this strategy from Benjamin Graham, the world's best value investor, make you more money from shares you invest in, it'll also make sure you lose less money when things do go wrong!
This strategy can be summed up in three words: Margin of safety!
What is margin of safety? And why y... ››› more
When you invest in penny shares you need to be alert.
Companies can pay you “stealth dividends”, or literally steal a chunk of your investment, without you even knowing it.
So it's important you know exactly how companies can do this and what to look out for…
“Stealth Dividends”: The only way a company can pay you tax free dividends!
You get “stealth dividends” f... ››› more
Some time ago, a Finance Director of a small company decided he wanted to invest some cash in his company. There is nothing notable or unusual about this. Directors buy and sell shares in the companies they work for every day.
So the director bought 12,297 shares for R9,960.57. In doing so, he pushed the quoted price of the shares up from 81c to 89c. This small company had a market cap of R172 ... ››› more
The biggest lie relating to stock markets you'll ever hear is something you'll be told often.
It's a lie presented by fund managers, personal financial advisers and media analysts alike.
And it goes a little something like this: “As a private investor, you're not smart enough to operate your own account.
Instead you should rather listen to us, give us your money and we'll do it for you... ››› more
Suresh recently asked me: "How do I determine the liquidity of a company? If I buy shares and then decide to sell them, how can I determine if there would be buyers for my shares? Will I always be able to sell my shares?"
Being in a position where a share that have no liquidity is like being in quicksand. You can struggle to sell the shares, but you'll get absolutely nowhere!
Fortunately, yo... ››› more
Money management is one of the most important - yet overlooked - strategies for profiting with shares. Managing your money properly could mean the difference between a small loss and a total wipe out. It could even be the difference between making a profit or a loss!
In Red Hot Penny Shares, I'll tell you why our PowA! penny shares are headed higher... But I'll also tell you what to do if thing... ››› more
What a time we've had…
Since November 2015, the JSE All Share Index crashed 11.8%. The Small-Cap index dropped 18%!
You might've thought you were prepared for a market crash like this when you started investing…
But I bet you're panicking now.
It's tough. It's scary. And it really isn't nice to see your entire portfolio of shares crash like this.
Today, I want to give you some goo... ››› more
In 2009. I wanted to make an additional income investing in penny shares.
I piled into five different penny shares, which I thought were going to sky rocket.
Boy was I wrong! I lost R74,000.
If I knew about Francois Joubert's strategy before, I wouldn't have lost my money.
Maybe it will help save you…
Penny share investing is extremely profitable, if you know what you're doing!
... ››› more
Yeah, yeah, we all know the story of how Shoprite was a R1 share in 1994 and shot up to R200 in 2012. Or how Capitec was 91c in 2002 and today it is trading at R430.
You might have even heard me speak about how I first invested in Adapt IT at R1.30 and today it is at R13.
But that's not what I want to tell you about today.
I want to tell you why you shouldn't invest in small cap shares…... ››› more
Over the last three decades, the small-cap sector (which houses ‘penny shares') outperformed nearly every other market by a landslide.
In fact, if you had spread R10,000 across the entire small-cap universe in 1996, you would have turned it into R171,021.60 by 2015.
And since 1929, the average annual return on small-cap stocks has been 11.9%, according to Morningstar Ibbotson data on inter... ››› more
Right now, you're facing an incredible opportunity.
You've got the chance to buy a handful of top quality, penny shares on the JSE right now, all at a steal.
These companies are so cheap, they're selling at multiple times the average dividend yield of the average JSE share.
But it won't be that way for long. So listen up. This is what you need to do…
The JSEs smallest companies are of... ››› more
Eqstra is involved in the leasing of capital equipment and the provision of other services. The company has a listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange…
Full name: Eqstra Holdings Limited
Short name: Eqstra
Ticker: EQS
Sector: Industrial goods & services – general industries
Five top facts about Eqstra
Fact #1:
Eqstra employs around 5,800 people across its operations in South ... ››› more
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