🚩 10 ASX company red flags (and what they mean)
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What are the warning signs for investors in ASX companies?
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How do red flags affect investment decisions?
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It is good to be back, Owen, specifically ASX company red flags or things to look for when you're investing in individual companies or for companies you've already invested in that might raise your eyebrows a little bit and warrant further investigation.
Yes, indeed. So these are the things that you probably hear professional investors talk about. They say red flag, there was a red flag and I made a mistake. This is a red flag. That's a red flag. You hear it all the time. And it's not just in investing. People use this phrase elsewhere. Danger. Danger. Yeah. So first of all, then, Kate, what is a red flag? Why do we use that idea?
The way I'm thinking about red flags is it's something that I should pay a bit more attention to as an investor about the company, whether it's suddenly the CEO left in the middle of night out of nowhere and no one had any idea that was going to happen. And this thing might not break your investment case or the reasons you invest at the company and the company might be fine, but it's something that you would go, okay, I'm going to do a bit more research into why this happened. Does this affect my thesis? And should I still invest in this company? Should I sell? What should I do about it?
Yep. Okay. So red flags are often interpreted by people to mean or sell now. So a lot of people are like, oh, that's a red flag.
What is the significance of a company's treatment of employees?
I should have sold. And I think we just want to stress that it's maybe not always the case that you find one red flag and then you sell. Yeah. I think a better system is a traffic light system like red, orange, green. Green being good, orange being not good but not terrible, and red being like that's not good. And when you invest, it's important to remember that there are many different flags that you'll come across. When we looked at companies for Rask Invest, we would have 42 different checklist items. And each of those different items would then have a score. And then it's only from that score that we then make a decision whether to go through with further research. Now, if one of those was a red flag, we could still proceed because the other 41 might be okay.
and you're always going to find a company that has something you don't like that's just what happens in investing yeah so i think the other thing to keep in mind is we can't see usually the inner workings of the company we don't know what's going through people's minds we don't know all of the secret conversations that have been held the private and confidential stuff so we have to make educated decisions based off the publicly available information or by listening to the investor calls or reading the documents doing research on forums things like that so
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the warning signs for investors in ASX companies?
0:00–1:24
2
How do red flags affect investment decisions?
1:24–3:10
3
What is the significance of a company's treatment of employees?
3:10–7:29
4
How does insider ownership influence company trustworthiness?
7:29–11:06
5
What are the implications of key personnel leaving a company?
11:06–14:47
6
How do legal issues impact a company's reputation?
14:47–19:40
7
What role does company promotion play in investment red flags?
19:40–22:53
8
How can broken promises indicate a company's reliability?
22:53–1:01:42
Speakers
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