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Exxon Mobil: How You Make Money
At the time of this writing, the shares of the oil giant ExxonMobil trade at around $100 per share. The company pumps out $7.64 in total profits, and pays out $2.52 in dividends. When you buy a stock,...
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GlaxoSmithKline Hiccups Here And There, But Ultimately Makes You Rich
I’ve spent most of my day studying GlaxoSmithKline, the British version of Johnson & Johnson. I still haven’t finished my study of the company yet, but it looks like one of the few places in the...
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Do You Need To Own Canadian Dividend Stocks?
That depends: What do you know about Canadian dividend stocks? Earlier this summer, I wrote an article about how, for the right type of investor, a mortgage REIT like Annaly Capital could be a useful...
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Life Advice: Remove The “Reply All” Button From Your Toolbar
Somehow, I ended up on the mailing list for ABA Journal and receive weekly e-mails of lawyer shenanigans and mistakes that prove costly. Here’s what ABA Journal sent out today: A prosecutor in the...
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Mocking Warren Buffett in 1999
I’m currently working on some articles that talk about how intelligent decisions that you are making correctly at the time may not necessarily show up in the stock price for a bit (think IBM growing...
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What If You Bought Visa, Mastercard, and Discover During The Financial Crisis?
Perhaps more than anything else, the theme here on this site is that great things can happen to your financial life if you can separate the headlines and stock prices from the actual business...
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How You Start A Dividend Stock Portfolio
Far and away the most common question I receive through e-mail from readers could be paraphrased as this, “Okay, I’ve finally reached a point in my life where I got a little money set aside, and I want...
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GlaxoSmithKline Fell 6%, The World Is Ending, Etc.
One of the advantages of holding a stock for a long time and reinvesting the dividends into the same company that paid out the dividends is that you become very receptive to the idea of falling stock...
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Yes, You Should Be Worried About Amazon’s Stock
I recently wrote to you about how the drop earlier this week GlaxoSmithKline wasn’t a big deal in the slightest, and how a hypothetical family in 2019 reviewing their reinvested GlaxoSmithKline...
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Why Warren Buffett Built A Perpetual Income Machine
When studying what made Warren Buffett such a successful investor, it would be naïve to conclude that he was simply some guy who had extraordinary skill at stock-picking, and then climbed to the top of...
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LOYAL3: The Current Savior Of Long-Term Investors
Even though I cannot attest to a lot of the criticism that the transfer agent computershare.com receives on a regular basis as a forum for buying stocks, I know a lot of people have written me,...
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The Most Uncomfortable Topic In Investing
For those of you who follow sports as well as investing, you probably crossed path with the news item last week that Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen is stepping down after the revelation that he has...
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Dividend Yield-On-Cost Takes Stupid Impulses Out of Investing
Among almost any academic investor that you could possibly meet, the notion of caring about yield-on-cost is quickly dismissed as fool’s play; the hallmark of an unsophisticated investor. What is...
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Why Overpaying For Stocks Can Still Beat Bonds
There is a very important reason why this site focuses on individual companies instead of, say, gold or treasury bonds. The reason is simple: actual businesses come with a growth component that does...
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Buying McDonald’s Stock Is Approaching No-Brainer Territory
It’s weird living in a world where the stock demands 30x earnings for a share of Brown Forman to give you a 1.3% dividend yield while shares of McDonald’s trade at 17x profits and give you a starting...
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Procter & Gamble: A Great Friend To Have For Life
Let us, for instance, look at what happens when you reach the conclusion that Procter & Gamble would be an excellent stock to carry with you throughout life, and you only get a chance to make a...
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Warren Buffett, Through Berkshire Hathaway, Is Sitting On $55 Billion In Cash
Even though income investing is the dominant theme of this site—it’s on the masthead, after all—there are times when it can be wise to look beyond dividend stocks, particularly if the company whose...
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Target: Blue-Chip Value Investing In Action
One of the things that makes investing so interesting is that there is a tension between the abstract principles that value investors advocate compared to their actual ability to execute on the...
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Why Oil Stocks Are Perfect Candidates For Long-Term Dynastic Wealth
[first part redacted]…Tim, why does it matter whether some stocks are perpetually overvalued or undervalued? You talked before about home some stocks like Altria are always cheap, and others like...
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How To Avoid “Awww, To Hell With It” Investing Syndrome
Usually, when a hear from a reader who wants to avoid letting material success get to his read, I recommend that he start regularly reading C.S. Lewis. It is hard to be a prick when you read lines like...
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