Growth Investing Process

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Hello you very wonderful and intelligent people that make up this forum. I truly hope everything is going well for you and you are having a lovely week.

I know many investors like to look at a few years worth of Annual Reports before investing in a stock. However, i have found that there is a huge amount of information that is not relevant in the Annual Report. I also suppose that reading more about a stock or company, will not make the investment safer.

I kindly wondered please for an investing process, would it be okay to look at articles, press releases and company statements about a company’s growth plans please? Then combine this with analysing the Cash Flow Statement to see how healthy the business is please? Such as Gregg’s in the UK there is lots of press releases about its strategies for opening new stores. I kindly please wanted to ask as an investment process would this be okay, this level of research would possibly take around 4 - 5 hours. If anyone kindly had any thoughts on this i would be forever grateful and thankful it would mean the world to me.

Sending you lots of good wishes and i truly hope you achieve massive success with your investing and have a wonderful life. With my every best wishes.

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Hello you very wonderful and amazing people. I am very sorry to follow-up on this as i appreciate you will all be very busy. If you kindly had any reply to my above message even if it was only a few sentences please, i would be forever grateful and thankful it would mean the world to me. All the very best to you and take care.

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I’d suggest using a stock screener like Yahoo Finance to narrow down your search. SimplyWallSt’s great for giving you a visual indicator too.

There are few right or wrong answers here, and it’s mostly each to their own.

I wouldn’t base any decisions on press releases though – after all, it’s a marketing ploy intended to paint the company in a good light.

Perhaps try zooming out? I find that can help when I get bogged down by detail.

For example, I want to build a growth portfolio, so what should be in it?

You’ll want exposure to different sectors, eg tech, consumer staples, health, financials etc but how much? Same for different countries/regions.

You’re likely going to want a semi-conductor company, so compare them and pick one or two. Maybe you add another in the supply chain.

You’re probably going to want one of the big cloud firms too, so you repeat the process.

Same thing for media and entertainment, payments, health and so on.

That way, you start with a strategy then work back and fill in the details. Before you know it you have a portfolio shaping up of say NVDA, TSM, LRCX, GOOGL, DIS, ADYEN, LILY etc.