Ideas, mechanics,
and honest numbers.
The screeners and calculators show what the rules say right now. This is where we explain why the rules are built the way they are, what changed and why, and the tradeoffs behind every methodology choice on this site.
How to invest in Waymo stock
Waymo is not publicly traded. Alphabet is its majority investor, so Alphabet stock is the practical route, but at a $126 billion valuation Waymo is about 2.9% of Alphabet's value. The funding, the scale and the other ways in.
How to invest in Wayve stock
Wayve, the London self-driving software company, is private with an $8.6 billion valuation and no IPO announced. Its investors, its licensing model versus Waymo's robotaxis, and the public companies with a stake.
How to invest in quantum computing
Quantum computing exposure comes three ways: large companies like IBM and Alphabet, pure plays such as IonQ, D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum, and three ETFs. Who is listed, how small the revenues are and what the risks are.
Cathie Wood's Tesla 2031 valuation
ARK Invest values Tesla at about $4,400 a share in 2031 on a $17.5 trillion market cap, with robotaxis about 80% of it. What the model assumes, what it implies against today's price (12.4 times, about 62% a year) and what has to go right.
When will Anthropic go public?
Anthropic's June 1, 2026 confidential S-1 is the only confirmed step. The IPO process in five steps, what press reports say about a November listing, and how an ordinary investor could buy when shares trade.
Can you buy ChatGPT (OpenAI) stock?
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is private and has no ticker. The five routes to exposure, what each one really gives you, and why products that claim to be OpenAI shares need a second look.
Why is Google Cloud growing so fast?
Google Cloud grew 82% to $24.8 billion in Q2 2026 with a $514 billion backlog, and the spending behind it turned free cash flow negative. Why it is growing, what it costs, and what this site's data says about Alphabet.
What is a good P/E ratio?
The median stock this site tracks trades at 24.6 times earnings, but sectors range from 13.3 to 45.2. How to judge a P/E against its sector, its growth and its history.
What is the Buffett indicator?
Total stock market value divided by GDP, Warren Buffett's favourite valuation gauge: how it is calculated, why two versions give 197% and 255% today, and what it cannot tell you.
Does an inverted yield curve predict a recession?
A yield curve inversion has come before all 6 US recessions since 1976, a median 17.5 months ahead, with 2 false alarms. The replay, the 2022 to 2025 inversion and why it says nothing about crashes.
What is a margin of safety?
Benjamin Graham's central idea, with a worked example: the formula, how a $5 free cash flow stock becomes $85 of value, and where 224 tracked stocks sit against their DCF value today.
Is the stock market in a bubble?
Today against the March 2000 and October 2007 peaks on seven measures: 2 are more stretched than both, 4 sit between and 1 is below both. The table, the chart and what it cannot say.
How to tell if a company might go bankrupt
The Altman Z-score on two worked examples, the other warning signs to check, and how 185 tracked stocks split into safe, grey and distress zones today.
How to find safe high-dividend stocks
Six cash and balance-sheet checks on 242 dividend payers: 145 fail none, 3 fail three or more, and the higher the yield the more flags it tends to carry.
Dividends vs buybacks
Dividends versus buybacks, and why stock-based pay can cancel a buyback: the median stock returns 2.75% a year net, and 69 of 275 pay out more in stock than they spend repurchasing it.
What does RSI below 30 mean?
RSI explained, with today's counts (8 of 294 stocks below 30) and a plain result from this site's forward log: stocks showing oversold signals bounced 5% less often than the average stock in the first cohort.
What is a Minsky moment?
Hyman Minsky's idea that stability breeds risk-taking until a shock causes a collapse: the three stages, the two kinds of signals, and today's reading of 5 of 5 fragility signals with 0 triggers.
How to check if a stock is a value trap
Six checks on cash flow, earnings, debt, capital and dividends that separate a cheap-looking trap from a real bargain, and the exact rule this site uses to flag one.
What is the Sahm rule?
The unemployment-based recession signal: how it is calculated, its record since 1969, why it confirms rather than predicts, and where it stands now.
What is the Shiller CAPE ratio?
How the CAPE is calculated, why it is about 40 today, what it has meant for ten-year returns, and why it cannot time the market.
How to read a 13F
What a Form 13F shows and hides, when the Q3 2026 filings are due, and how to read one without mistaking a quarter-old snapshot for a live portfolio.
What is the See's Candies test?
Warren Buffett's favourite business test: how much extra capital did a company need to grow its profit? The numbers from his letter and how this site applies them.
What growth does a share price imply?
A reverse DCF turns the usual question around: instead of valuing a stock from a growth guess, it finds the growth rate the current price already assumes.
How to calculate the dividend payout ratio
The payout ratio formula, a worked example, why free cash flow is a better base than earnings, and the thresholds that separate a safe dividend from a yield trap.
How to Use a Dividend Calculator: A Complete Guide
The dividend yield formula, how to find annual dividend per share, what growth rate to assume, dividends vs. interest, and a step-by-step walkthrough of our free DRIP calculator.
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The screeners and calculators show what the numbers say right now. This is where we'll dig into why the rules are built the way they are, and what changes when the market does.
A stock investing blog about methods, not tips
The blog explains how this stock research site's rules are built: why a stock passes or fails a filter, how the calculators work and what changes when the market does. Start with the dividend calculator guide, then try the free stock screener and calculators it points to.