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When Is The Best Time To Buy Coca-Cola Stock? Anytime You Got The Money
After I plugged my recent article about Ty Cobb and the Coca-Cola stock on Seeking Alpha, I received a link from regular SA contributor Charles Margolis highlighting the town of Quincy, Florida, which...
View ArticleRaise A Glass to Rose Blumkin
I understand why everyone cloaked in the Berkshire Hathaway story is dwarfed by Warren Buffett. After all, the man managed to compound wealth at a rate of 20% for half a century by investing (rather...
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You Can Sell Stocks In Only Five Minutes
You know what makes stock investing so dangerous? The fact that we can instantaneously combust a long-term strategy merely if we are having a bad day. The amount of damage we can wreck on our...
View ArticleSeth Klarman’s Margin Of Safety: The Most Legendary Book In Personal Finance
If you regularly follow Berkshire Hathaway message boards, you may be aware that Seth Klarman has repeatedly been the dark horse candidate to replace Warren Buffett at Berkshire Hathaway when the time...
View ArticleWhy I Stopped Reading Get Rich Slowly After J.D. Roth Left
When I first started reading personal finance articles, a website called “Get Rich Slowly” that was founded by J.D. Roth became one of the personal finance sites that I would read on a daily basis....
View ArticleA&T Stock Looks Intriguing At 6% Dividend Yield
AT&T (T) stock has long fascinated me. It’s the staple of nearly every income investor’s portfolio. And for good reason. If you get your hands on a meaningful block of AT&T stock early enough...
View ArticleThe Peter Lynch Crayon Test Could Save Your Investment Portfolio
Peter Lynch, the gentleman that achieved 29% annual returns while running Fidelity’s Magellan Fund from 1977 through 1990, is famous for saying that you should never invest in any idea that you can’t...
View ArticleThe Next Wells Fargo
I have long been intrigued by the fact that the most famous value investors, ranging from Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett to Seth Klarman, have all made it a point to invest meaningful sums of their...
View ArticleAn Investing Lesson From The Greek Philosopher Epicurus
I’m a sucker for ancient Greek and Roman philosophers that made observations about life two thousand years ago that still hold up today. One of my favorite is the observation that the Greek philosopher...
View ArticleFood Stock Investing For Dividends
I pay close attention to consumer brands for the following reason: “The best stocks to buy create a product that nobody else can legally produce then delivers that product using super-efficient...
View ArticleA Fantastic Quote To Start Your Day
Check out this great quote from Charles Swindoll: “The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the...
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Royal Dutch Shell Stock: The Consequences of Past Dividends
The business of Royal Dutch Shell is one of the most impressive in the entire world. If I had to make a list of thirty buy-and-hold forever stocks, Shell would get a spot. It owns such a staggering...
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Saved By Facebook’s Lack of A Dividend
Earlier this year, I didn’t pay Facebook much mind. With only one unique exception, I have never had much of an interest in staking real money on business models that rely upon digital advertisements...
View ArticleWisdom From Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Steve Jobs
If you have an hour or two to kill today or sometime this weekend, these three Youtube clips should give you the chance to spend your free time learning from the best. (1) The first video is a Warren...
View ArticleWhy Visa Stock Perpetually Outperforms
Barnett Helzberg Jr., whose family sold the eponymously named Helzberg Diamonds to become part of Warren Buffett’s collection of subsidiaries at Berkshire Hathaway, said that the hardest part of...
View ArticleAdobe Stock And The Trust Factor
Like many else in the financial media, I spend my fair share of time thinking about the future of technology companies. From an investment perspective, it is not so much the excitement of tech-related...
View ArticleJealousy, Envy, and Greed Are Great Tools For Destroying Wealth
Over the past year, Best Buy has returned 59.24%. Citigroup has returned 78.92%. Netflix has returned 332%. That’s real money. If you put $100,000 into Netflix this time last year, you’d have $332,000...
View ArticleHow To Master The Art of Investing
For those of you familiar with Malcolm Gladwell’s research in the book Outliers, you may have heard that it takes 10,000 hours of practice/effort/research to demonstrate extreme proficiency in an...
View ArticleWhat If You Buy Coca-Cola, Exxon-Mobil, and Johnson & Johnson Every Year?
For a thought experiment, I wanted to look at the results of what would happen if an investor went through life by adopting this strategy: during the first trading week of January each year, he bought...
View ArticleWendy’s Is Destroying Itself To Repurchase Shares
If you’ve been following Wendy’s stock over the past few years, you may have noticed that the stock price has quadrupled in value from $4 in 2009 to $16 today while earnings have tripled over that same...
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