ICCGF News and Press, ICA Gruppen AB From 12/12/19

This article is an update on ICA-Gruppen ( ICCGF ), Sweden's (by some measures) largest grocer. Together with Axfood ( AXFOF ), the company has come to more or less dominate the market across the entire nation. The companies are quite different in their corporate structure, with ICA essentiall...

Europris ( ERPSY ) is a Norwegian discount retailer which went public in the summer of 2015 and its shares have experienced an important drop since 2017. It runs more than 250 large stores with a great variety of products in all the territories of Norway. What makes this drop interesting is th...

In my initial article on ICA Gruppen ( ICCGF ), " ICA: Dividends From Half Of Sweden's Grocery Market ," I showed you, as the title would indicate, how to potentially earn a dividend from roughly half of Sweden's grocery market. Even back in April, when the article was published, the stock w...

It's no secret that once a recession hits, such as during 1999-2000, or 2009-2010, quality companies are on sale just like other companies. For many companies, one could argue that a general downturn is the only time when the company is actually undervalued, or fairly valued, barring something...

Updating the international dividend investor's portfolio As a value-oriented dividend investor, I believe that investing in a diversified portfolio of dividend stocks and related shares/securities is a better option in the long term than investing in index funds or ETFs. In addition to recei...

Let me preface this article by saying that I think you'll have a hard time finding a company like Kesko ( KKOYF , KKOYY ). Its sector composition and business strategy are somewhat unique. The closest company I can think of is ICA ( ICCGF ), which I wrote about in my article entitled " ICA: D...

I recently wrote an article about the grocer Axfood (AXFOF) (AXFOY), entitled Axfood Should Be One Of Your Dividend Stocks. In that article, I spent some time presenting Axfood, a company I consider market-leading in the Swedish grocery market. Now, the time has come to take a look at the ...

Today I'm taking a look at one of my larger portfolio holdings, in a series where I review the currently overvalued Swedish market to provide you with some insight into our lovely Nordic companies. Swedish food giant Axfood ( AXFOF ) ( AXFOY ) is one of only a few major movers in the grocery m...

A while ago, I introduced readers to Investor AB ( IVXSF ; IVSBF ), a Swedish holding company with quite a track record. While Investor AB is probably one of the better known companies of its kind, certainly the best known Swedish. Yet there is another, similar if smaller company from the s...