Investing Is So Damn Tough You Are Right (Guest Post)
This post was originally posted here. The writer is a veteran community member and blogger on InvestingNote, with username known as 3Fs.
To say that this has been a tough year for investment is an understatement.
Investing, as a general form of growing your wealth is so damn tough that for one not to be losing money is sometimes already seen as a form of success.
I can totally relate why many people avoided them like a plague because contrary to many popular beliefs, it can jolly well diminish your money.
Imagine yourself being invested in Asian Pay TV Trust at the start of the year, having intrigued by its stuttering share price and a high dividend payout.
You might have thought the dividends they pay out is unsustainable hence you made a decision to project them conservatively at the fcf you think they can give out.
When APTT announces their recent results, the management is even more conservative than you are and slashed their dividends like they did to slaughter a dying pig, causing its share price to fall by 50% in one day. …