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Stock analysis for beginners is about not having to learn a bunch of financial concepts that you'll have forgotten by the weekend, it's about applying basic principles of risk management when analyzing new stocks. To start, have a size cutoff. Institutional investors do, so why don't you? Our market cap cutoff sits at $1 billion, and we never invest before meaningful revenues. That's what venture capitalist do, and it's why they have a nine out of ten failure rate. Learn about what a company does so you can explain it to your grandmother, then figure out where they're actually generating revenue from and who is involved in the process. If it's a tech stock, what might threaten that revenue growth? For dividend stocks, what might cause those dividends to stop increasing? We examine a firm called Digimarc DMRC to learn about watermarking technology that's being used by Walmart. Having a client that big is often a double-edged sword, and they're also why we're not interested in investing. If you're looking for a guide to analyzing stocks for beginners, you found one.

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