Sprint and T Mobile’s Extreme Debt Post-Merger
During the financial crisis, the price of Sprint stock fell from $24 per share to $1.30, effectively pricing into the stock the looming possibility of bankruptcy. At the time, Sprint had a debt burden...
View ArticleGlaxoSmithKline Dividends For The Long Run
When I write finance articles, I aim to motivate anyone who seeks self-improvement about the opportunities available to them and the specific steps that are necessary in order to carve out a better...
View ArticleGilead Sciences Stock For The Long Haul
What causes some investors to fear volatility? I suspect it is that any share price decline signifies a disruption in their expectations. If you work hard and have $10,000 left over from your labor,...
View ArticleHolding Onto Alphabet Stock With Dear Life
Reading the data points of Alphabet’s earnings report a few days ago was like reading through a summary of Rogers Hornsby’s 1922 Triple Crown season with the St. Louis Cardinals when he led the...
View ArticleWarren Buffett’s Colossal Stake in Apple
There are very few parallels in Warren Buffett’s investing career that can match the amount of cash that he has put forward to buy an ownership stake in a publicly traded stock. With Berkshire’s...
View ArticleWarren Buffett and Wells Fargo Stock: Traveling Became Safer Because The...
After American Express shareholders got burned by the salad oil scandal in 1963, in which inventories of salad oil dressing were literally watered down and falsified as a secured asset, the company...
View ArticleGeneral Mills Stock Provides Great Retiree Dividends
In 2016, General Mills stock traded at a price of $72 per share despite earning only $2.92 per share in net profits. That was a P/E ratio of 24. That was well above the blended P/E ratio of 17.8 that...
View ArticleFord Stock’s Dividend Isn’t Safe For the Long Term
Financial writers that cover Ford stock, the iconic Detroit automaker, have recently taken to declaring that the Ford dividend is safe for the long term. The analysis seems to be something like this:...
View ArticleThe Inevitability of Coca-Cola’s Monster Energy Buyout
Marty Whitman, the successful investor and author of “The Aggressive Conservative Investor”, recommended investing in companies that were profitably growing in their own right but also had the high...
View ArticleLending Club Reviews For Mom and Pop Investors
Lending Club and other peer-to-peer lending platforms have gotten a lot of attention in recent years because of the promise of double-digit income returns that can obtained by lending money to...
View ArticleThe Most Promising Stock For The Next Twenty Years
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View ArticleValeant’s Wise Name Change to Bausch Health
I was thinking about the news earlier today that Valeant Pharmaceuticals, the Canadian healthcare company that saw its stock price rise from $24 to $263 in the span of four years before cratering to a...
View ArticleWarren Buffett and Apple Stock: Drowning In Cash
Sometimes, the news item that the finance media fixates on is, in reality, the biggest news item of all. The news story that Buffett has bought an additional 75 million shares of Apple stock,...
View ArticleDover’s Apergy Spinoff: What To Know
Shareholders of Dover Corp. as of April 30, 2018 shall, effective May 9, 2018, receive 1 share of Apergy stock (APY) for every 2 shares of Dover stock (DOV) that they own pursuant to a tax-free spinoff...
View ArticleDonald Yacktman’s Blue-Chip Stock Approach
A great interview old interview with Donald Yacktman. Definitely worth a watch. Originally posted 2018-05-10 23:15:51. … Read the rest of this article! The post Donald Yacktman’s Blue-Chip Stock...
View ArticleBlue-Chip Investing vs. Value Investing: An Illustration
I gravitated towards high-quality dividend stocks because you only have to make a decision once and the ownership process is satisfying in the same way that planting an oak tree on the family farm and...
View ArticleSymantec Stock: A Buy in Chaos
When an accounting lie comes up at a publicly traded company, I often think of Benjamin Graham’s advice to never consider the stock as a suitable investment because the accuracy of the numbers...
View ArticleBad Investments In 2018
A newspaper article recently disclosed the purchase of a trophy office building that sold for approximately $10 million, on a fully occupied property in which the tenants currently pay a combined...
View ArticleWal-Mart Stock: Nice To Meet You Again
Rose Blumkin, the founder of the Nebraska Furniture Mart, once said: “If you have the lowest price, they will find you at the bottom of a river.” For operators that seek to compete on price, that...
View ArticleHow To Make A Million Dollars, Seriously
At the age of 50, the average American has a net worth of $132,384. At the age of 50, the average American engineer has a net worth of $973,028. Aside from the partial explanatory difference that can...
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