How To Become A Better And More Successful Investor
If you’re looking to take your game to the next level, here’s an excellent habit to develop: Anytime you encounter a data point or statistic that tells you about the supposed quality of a given...
View ArticleCash On Hand As You Go Through Life
Benjamin Graham warned that investing and the pursuit of wealth through markets and publicly traded business ownership involved a very important contingency. Namely, it was non-negotiable that the...
View ArticleColgate Palmolive: The Best Dividend Stock In The World?
Even though I’ve generally anointed The Coca-Cola Company as the signature stock that I associate this website with, I’m opening myself to the possibility that perhaps Colgate-Palmolive should be the...
View ArticleLong-Term Investing Is Your Edge
When McDonald’s stock was trading in the $90s during 2014 and 2015, I was incredibly struck by the obviousness of the high risk-adjusted returns that would await investors from that price point. While...
View ArticleAbout John Sculley’s Decision To Fire Steve Jobs
Although John Sculley (thePepsi CEO that left the helm at Steve Jobs’ behest only to sack him later after disagreeing about the future of the company—Jobs wanted to focus on lowering the price and...
View ArticleWarren Buffett’s First and Best Investing Lesson
In the spring of 1942, Warren Buffett made his first investment in the stock market when he purchased three 3 shares of Cities Service stock, an Oklahoma natural gas company that Warren’s father,...
View ArticleAqua America: One Of The Last Stocks In The World Offering A 5% Reinvestment...
Back when DRIP programs were rolling out in the 1960s and 1970s, one of the advantages typically offered in such programs was a 5%, 10%, and in some rare cases of budding blue-chips, 15% discount on...
View ArticleRoth IRA Investing: Altria Stock Since The Financial Crisis
There is a reader of this website who purchased shares of Altria stock in 2009 when the rest of the world was falling apart during the Great Recession. I have often mentioned on this website that it...
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Financial Success Late In Life Is Nothing To Lament
I love this chart that Anna Vital made that is going viral across the United States. If anything, though, it’s incomplete because it ignores so many people who didn’t start becoming successful in a...
View ArticleWhy People Stop Donating Money To Their Alma Mater
I was reading this academic study on why alumni cease donating to their alma mater, which is titled “Why Alumni Don’t Give: A Qualitative Study of What Motivates Non-Donors to Higher Education.” It...
View ArticleWhat Warren Buffett’s Will Can Teach You
On a recent CNBC appearance, Warren Buffett discussed the investment strategy for his will: “Well, I didn’t lay out my whole will. . . . I did explain, because I laid out what I thought the average...
View ArticleWho Gets The Dog In A Divorce?
California, Illinois, and Alaska now permit divorce courts to consider the “best interest of the pet” (limited to dogs, cats, and a few other animals) when determining which spouse gets the pet after...
View ArticleJohnson & Johnson Stock: Feeding The Winners
I enjoy studying the mega-cap companies like ExxonMobil, Johnson & Johnson, and Nestle that have delivered excellent results for shareholders over a multi-decade stretch. Unlike many other...
View ArticleMichael Lewis And Flash Traders Do Not Affect Long-Term Investors
One of the things that I find remarkable about investing is that, over long periods of time, the results that you experience tend to mirror the earnings per share growth rate plus dividends of the...
View ArticleSetting Measurable Investing Goals
Henry Ford famously said: “That which can be measured, can be managed.” When he met with his company’s sales managers approximately a century ago, he told them that he could get the best out of them by...
View ArticleThree More Ways To Become A Bad Investor
Cass Sunstein, in a recent Bloomberg article in which he examined the causes of his own personal investing mistakes, reminisced about a dumb selling decision that he made in 2011. Putting himself on...
View ArticleTwo Recent Purchases
Today, I made two purchases. One is an excellent company with excellent growth in excess of 15% per annum, and the other is a dominant blue-chip stock currently yielding over 4.8%. I provided the full...
View ArticleBoston Beer Stock: A Long-Term Look At Intelligent Small-Cap Investing
A question from a reader: Hi tim I know you usually write about large stock dividend investing but was wondering if you would share how to make small sized stock investments in smaller companies The...
View ArticleReading An Annual Report (Finding Unexpected Risks)
Benjamin Graham used to say that reading an annual report was largely a “negative art” because usually something compelling about a business would make you curious enough to read the company’s...
View ArticleGetting A Medallion Signature Guarantee
When someone needs to authenticate the transfer or redemption of: (a) stocks; (b) bonds; (c) mutual funds, or (d) anything defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission as a “security”, most...
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