A short YouTube talk by Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim introducing fundamental investing: treat stocks as purchases of businesses and evaluate company profitability, competitors, dividends, and financial ratios (e.g., P/E, EPS). The speaker frames this approach as his school of thought and references reading The Intelligent Investor as an early influence.
When we talk about investing in the stock market, think of it like you're buying companies, you're buying a business, you're investing in their business, you're a shareholder. So you want to know about the business. This is my school of thought, fundamental investing. You want to know about the business, Are they a profitable company? Are they losing money? Who are their competitors? What is their PE ratio? So that's price to earning ratio. So. So it's selling at this price. Are they earning enough money? If I were to not be able to sell this stock and I just got dividends from them, will I be happy with it? You want to note in like earning per share. So eps, how much is each share able to pay me as a dividend? You want to look at so many other things. That's why a lot of people who invest in the stock market do what we call fundamental analysis. Now, as a young teenager, that was the first time I read a copy of this book, the Intelligent Investor.
