How shareholders benefit from stock buybacks
A stock buyback (or share buyback) is a process by which a company buys its own shares on the stock market and cancels them. The…
Explaining the price to earnings ratio – Part 2
What does the PE Ratio tell investors? Fundamentally, the PE ratio tells us how many years of earnings we are paying for when we buy…
Explaining the price to earnings ratio – Part 1
The Price to Earnings (PE) Ratio is one of, if not, the most often used valuation metric. Many investors rely heavily on the PE ratio…
Day trading versus value investing
It is no secret that we at Caribbean Value Investor Corporation are biased towards the value investing approach to investing. However, given the recent surge…
The Caribbean is ripe for disruption
Home According to the late Clayton Christensen, American academic and business consultant who developed the theory of “disruptive innovation”, disruptive innovation can be explained as…
Bitcoin: The new currency
In 1871, Irish explorer David O’Keefe was washed to the coast of a small island community known as the Yap Islands. The islanders were kind…
Creativity and capital
I recently made my way through the book Significant Zero: Heroes, Villains, and the Fight for Art and Soul in Video Games. It was published…
From Facebook to Metaverse
Metaverse is the new buzz word in technology. To understand it, let’s talk about how we engage with people on the Internet. We go to…
Entertainment and the business of race and class
On 25 October 2021, former Prime Minister Bruce Golding on his radio programme focused on the business of Jamaican music as his topic of discussion….
The uncertainty of cryptocurrency
Trading and investing in cryptocurrencies have become a lifestyle for some Jamaicans. Though the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), in a notice released in July 2021,…