The Four Keys To Get Rich With Failure
One of the first moments when it hit me that I would make a ton of investing mistakes over the course of my lifetime is when I read admissions from Warren Buffett about the investing mistakes that he...
View ArticleThe Fun Thing About Blue-Chip Dividend Stocks
You know what makes all of this finance writing about blue chips fun for me? The continuity of almost everything. When I started writing for Seeking Alpha in 2011, I was saying the same things about...
View ArticleJack Puelicher’s 1982 Letter To Shareholders
In 1982, Jack Puelicher, the CEO of Marshall & Ilsley, wrote an annual report which read, in entirety, as follows: “Your company had a very good year in 1982. Some of it was due to luck; some of...
View ArticleThe Diamond In The Rough
There is a company, founded in 1889, with a long track record of rewarding its shareholders, that is now trading at a P/E ratio below its historical norms while it is primed to grow earnings per share...
View ArticleNever Sell A Blue-Chip Stock That Drowns You In Dividends
When I receive e-mails from people who have come across this blog and want to discuss portfolio strategy, I’ve found that a good chunk of readers have taken to a dividend growth strategy even if they...
View ArticleLoyal3 Investing: Why Folio First Took Over
Back in 2011, Barry Schneider launched Loyal3 for the purpose of allowing the mom-and-pop small investor to have a chance to invest alongside institutional Wall Street investors in initial public...
View ArticleBuy Your Kids Johnson & Johnson Stock For Christmas
On page 175 of Janet Lowe’s book, Damn Right! Behind The Scenes With Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger, Ms. Lowe quotes Charlie as saying: “People underrate the importance of a few simple...
View ArticleBP Stock: Big Dividends and Cash Flow
Since I began writing finance articles in 2011, a few opinions of mine have received outsized criticism. Anything relating to gold or tobacco, and anything relating to BP’s merits as an investment...
View ArticleWhy Do Some CEOs Only Work For A Dollar Per Year?
I was recently studying the various Kinder Morgan energy companies as potential investments, and I got sidetracked into studying the life of Richard Kinder himself. He’s a pretty interesting dude—he...
View ArticleWhy Kinder Morgan Stock Made Investors Rich
For those of you who have been reading this site for a while (God Bless you!), you know that it is no secret that the cash payouts of high-quality firms contribute a large, hidden part of total stock...
View ArticleWhat If You Bought $300 Worth of Exxon Mobil Every Month For Twenty Years...
Since Warren Buffett announced his purchase of Exxon Mobil stock on behalf of Berkshire Hathaway, the price of the stock has gone up substantially in a two-month period for a company worth over $400...
View ArticlePhil Robertson, Advertisers, And Disney Shareholders
If you have been following the news for the past day or so, you have likely seen the lead story and many debates about the comments that Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame made to GQ Magazine that...
View ArticleBest Long Term Stocks: The Thirty Second Guide
One of the seeming national pastimes among investors over the past decade has been to lament the performance of Microsoft stock. After all, from 2003 to 2013, the company has only delivered annual...
View ArticleWhy McDonalds’ Japan Subsidiary Is Declining In Sales
I was watching CNBC early this evening (perhaps that was my first mistake), and the headline blaring on the bottom was about McDonalds’ operations in Japan. McDonalds is currently planning to shutter...
View ArticleWarren Buffett’s Charity Philosophy at Berkshire Hathaway
Not that long ago, I was watching the Missouri Tigers play against another team with the exact same mascot, the Auburn Tigers. Unfortunately, my Missouri team lost, but I’d like to talk about something...
View ArticleShould You Buy The Fidelity Magellan Mutual Fund?
One of the interesting things about mutual funds is that they tend to retain the halo effect of the mutual fund superstars even after those fund superstars are no longer around. One such case is the...
View ArticleCoca-Cola Stock, The Great Depression, and J.D. Salinger’s Estate
For those of you interested in what I’ve been reading this weekend: 1. You can click here to read an article about a guy that bought some Palmer Oil stock and argued that it was worth 1.8 million...
View ArticleWhat Are The Tax Differences Between The Three Types of Kinder Morgan?
After my recent article on the lucrative performance of Kinder Morgan over the past two decades, I received several questions from readers that wanted to know the taxation differences between KMP, KMR,...
View ArticleLivefyre, Website Speed, Old Comments, And Other Website Updates
A couple weeks ago, I improved the layout of the site from something horrible to something that could now charitably be described as “passable.” I’ve performed some other routine maintenance work as...
View ArticleAAA-Rated Companies: Where’d They Go?
In the early 1990s, American investors could choose from over sixty publicly available investments in companies whose debt issuances were rated as AAA, the highest possible credit rating which denotes...
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