Alcohol giant Diageo (DGE) is one of the highest quality stocks listed in the United Kingdom. For one, its business is an absolute profit machine, with net margins running in excess of 20%. The company has earned a cumulative total of around £13,500m over the past half-decade, with around £7,500m of…

Like a lot of stocks, French luxury goods giant LVMH (LVMH) has had a strange year so far. The Louis Vuitton owner looks ripe for a tough period due to the COVID-19 pandemic, yet you wouldn’t know that from its share price. It trades around the €400 per share mark, barely down…

Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) stock has delivered great returns over the past decade or so. The investment services giant, well known for its integrated fund and share dealing platform, went public back in mid-2007 at 160 pence per share. My screen shows a current share price of circa 1,660 pence. Chuck in…

Oil major BP (BP) appeared front and centre in the investing news earlier this week. The company announced a headline grabbing asset write-down, which it will book in its 2Q20, that could top $17,500m. That came on the back of it lowering its average price forecast to $55 per barrel…

Following on from something similar on The Compound Investor, I figured I’d start a micro portfolio for UK equities. Now, I think we are slightly behind the Americans here in terms of the zero-commission dealing revolution. We can add fractional share dealing to that as well, which is why I’m calling…