by ff | Aug 12, 2026 | Investment Analysis
The “small-cap premium” — the idea that small companies reliably outperform large ones over time because they carry more risk — is one of the most cited ideas in investing, and one of the most misunderstood. Where the Small-Cap Premium Actually...
by ff | Aug 12, 2026 | Investment Analysis
“The market is expensive” gets said constantly, almost always in reference to the P/E ratio — but a single number, calculated a few different ways, is being asked to summarize a lot more than it can actually tell you on its own. Trailing P/E, Forward...
by ff | Aug 12, 2026 | Investment Analysis
A high dividend yield on a REIT can mean the shares are genuinely undervalued — or it can mean the market has already priced in a dividend cut. Chasing yield alone is exactly how income-focused investors get caught holding a REIT whose payout wasn’t...
by ff | Aug 12, 2026 | Investment Analysis
U.S. investors have had little reason to look abroad for most of the past fifteen years — American stocks have outpaced international developed and emerging markets for most of that stretch — but that home bias comes with real, often underappreciated risk....
by ff | Aug 12, 2026 | Investment Analysis
A portfolio can hold twenty different stocks and still be dangerously undiversified if eighteen of them are technology companies, or if one position has grown to dominate the account — concentration risk hides inside portfolios that look diversified on the...
by ff | Aug 12, 2026 | Investment Analysis
Value investing (buying stocks that look cheap relative to earnings or book value) and growth investing (buying companies expected to grow revenue and earnings fast, regardless of current price) aren’t just two flavors of the same thing — they’ve...
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