Joseph Hogue – Never Ignore the Debt to Equity Ratio

BIO: Joseph Hogue graduated from Iowa State University after serving in the Marine Corps. He worked in corporate finance and real estate before starting a career in investment analysis. He has appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC and led a team of equity analysts for a venture capital research firm. STORY: Joseph bought stocks in an energy company at a time when industry prices were low with the hope that the company would outperform the market, but it didn’t. He lost $30,000 in the investment. LEARNING: Always look at debt-to-equity ratios, especially in a down market. Set percentage caps on the stocks in your portfolio.   “Bad things happen to good companies.”Joseph Hogue  Guest profileBorn and raised in Iowa, https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephhogueefficientalpha/ (Joseph Hogue) graduated from Iowa State University after serving in the Marine Corps. He worked in corporate finance and real estate before starting a career in investment analysis. Joseph has appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC and led a team of equity analysts for a venture capital research firm. He holds a master’s degree in business and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. Joseph left the corporate world in 2014 to build his online businesses, first through creating websites and later through his YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbKdotYtcY9SxoU8CYAXdvg (Let’s Talk Money). He’s since grown the community to over 500,000 and reaches more than 1.8 million people a month through his blogs, YouTube channel, and a weekly market newsletter. Subscribe to Joseph’s https://new-millennium-online-enterprises-llc.ck.page/f1eaab6c7a (free weekly market newsletter) to get an update on all the news, trends, and what he’s watching in the week ahead for stocks! Worst investment everIn 2014/15, high debt and low energy prices knocked the entire coal industry down. Regulators were circling, trying to limit the coal generation capacity in the United States. But still, a third of the US energy grid was generated by coal, so this wa