Welcome to Shares Month 2022 on The Australian Finance Podcast! This month is all about how to analyse stocks like a pro investment analyst.

In today’s episode we’re going to run you through a high level version of our share investing checklist that you can use while researching companies. This includes looking at what a company does, who runs is, competitive advantages, whether it’s in a growing industry and looking at it’s valuation.

Over the next few weeks, we'll start with the basics, discuss building an ethical portfolio, tackle an analysis on a company you’ve probably heard about Xero (ASX: XRO), and we’ll finish the month with a share investing specific Q&A and a special (and brand new) hypothetical portfolio.

Stay tuned for all eight parts of Shares Month in May/June 2022 as the Rask Australia team walk you through how to analyse your own companies (from scratch) and ways you can make investing in great companies easy as 1-2-3 (4-5).

Our next Q&A session will be focused on answering your questions on share investing. The ENTIRE Rask Australia team will be on standby to answer your questions. So... SEND THEM IN! Email us at podcast@rask.com.au and use the subject line "SHARES MONTH". We'll prioritise your questions to be answered in our Q&A episode.

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