To find stocks that the vast mass already haven’t find and that has a good risk/return relation is almost impossible for the normal small player investor. To look overseas and in irregular branches provides no guaranty for neither finding good or unexploited stock, it does however increase your odds. In contrary to what you might have heard from preachers of the efficient market hypothesis or the random walk theory, there are some patterns on the stock market that can be exploited if you have the patience, guts and/or knowledge. One example of a pattern is the fact that the large cap stocks as well as the most known mid cap stocks of the OMX index generally tends to lead when the market changes from a bear to bull phase, like the one we had after the credit crisis. Another would be that stocks tend to converge towards the average “Shiller PE” (10 year average PE) over time. Those with guts should therefore buy/sell a relevant index when it is far from the “Shiller PE” average of ~18, compared to the IT bubble average that was nearly 45 before the IT-crash. I believe there to be one more pattern that I intend to exploit in this week’s letter. Stocks of companies that are closest to the consumer markets are generally early in the investing cycles, whereas the stocks of the suppliers for these same companies’ are lagging behind. TDK, Murata and Qualcomm are all suppliers to many electronic producers, including Apple, HTC, Samsung etc., and I believe that the public have failed to notice their full potential yet and that they have fallen in the shadow of the end product, i.e. Apple. In addition to above theory is the fact that the market for above companies will grow tremendously in the coming years and all of these companies are strong and stable players in this segments.
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