[If your goal is to find companies to grow with, interest rates may not come into play as strongly.] Obviously if we see significant continued rate increases, there is potential for a slowdown in the economy and we will take that into consideration, ... But a material slowdown will affect most companies out there. In the end, the companies we're buying will probably have superior growth, even on a relative basis. |
Companies in business services and outsourcing, we believe provide nice secular growth and have some resilience to a generally difficult economy, |
Grocery store point-of-sale terminals (POS) and debit card technology is largely Concord EFS, |
Grocery store point-of-sale terminals (POS) and debit card technology is largely Concord EFS. |
I think all eyes are on the economy and the Fed is trying to engineer a soft landing. |
I would urge any investor to do as much thorough analysis as they're capable of and that means looking broadly at the fundamentals of a company's business, ... Look at its business model and what its source of revenue is, how it's positioned in its market, where its growth comes from and where potential new growth could come from. |
I would urge any investor to do as much thorough analysis as they're capable of and that means looking broadly at the fundamentals of a company's business. Look at its business model and what its source of revenue is, how it's positioned in its market, where its growth comes from and where potential new growth could come from. |
I'd like to see a summer rally. I guess there's no guarantee. But overall, I think we're still pretty bullish. The economy is still very strong, and global growth continues to be pretty solid, and the companies that we focus on I think can do well, even if we see some moderate slowdown in the economy, |
I'd like to see a summer rally. I guess there's no guarantee. But overall, I think we're still pretty bullish. The economy is still very strong, and global growth continues to be pretty solid, and the companies that we focus on I think can do well, even if we see some moderate slowdown in the economy. |
It looks like we're finally beginning to see signs of a sustained slowdown, particularly in the interest-rate sensitive areas such as housing, ... This is more evidence for the Fed that the economy is slowing. |
It looks like we're finally beginning to see signs of a sustained slowdown, particularly in the interest-rate sensitive areas such as housing. This is more evidence for the Fed that the economy is slowing. |
It's really going back to the most basic processes of examining what a business does and why it's successful. The availability of information available to investors is vastly greater than it used to be and I think that is to everybody's advantage. |
There are tremendous resources available to people who are looking for it. Individual investors can choose to devote as much time as they want to educating themselves and learning about the companies they own. |
We try to pick companies that dominate their niche. So we think there are lots of opportunities to sort of identify pure plays, |