BP Has Created Over 20 Shares For Every 100 Shares Purchased Since The Oil Spill
I have written about BP several times before on this site, as the company is one in which the reputation of the firm has created a historic opportunity due to the lingering memory of the oil spill and...
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Roth IRA Investments: Do You Want High Dividends Or Rapid Growth?
When investing within the confines of a Roth IRA, there are two different strategies that an investor can pursue (or combine them both) to work around the $5,500 maximum contribution limit that are...
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What The Heck Should We Think About BP Stock Right Now?
My guess is that anyone who is a lawyer, or at least familiar with the legal process enough to understand that separate, discrete elements need to be met in order to win a lawsuit, looks to a nearby...
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Total SA Can Be An Astonishing Dividend Investment
No ones like to talk about Total SA, the French oil giant that is one of the “Big Six” publicly traded energy firms in the world, because the French government is fond of taxing the business highly and...
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The Bill Gates Approach To Microsoft Stock
One of the ridiculous components of the annual “Forbes 100 List” that outlines the richest people in the world is that it is written with the frame of reference that every member of that list is...
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Men Like Buffett and Munger Impress No One But Themselves In Their Early Years
When you study the personal lives of most great value investors, be it Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett, John Neff, Richard Cunniff, Bill Ruane, or Donald Yacktman, you will find that among the many...
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Do Bull Markets And Great Depressions Affect Your Stock Market Psychology?
One of the social theories out there that seems intuitively appealing (at a minimum) is the notion that the market conditions that exist at the time you came of age has an outsized influence on your...
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Income Investing And The Fixed Cost Of Life
I spent a large portion of today studying businesses that collapsed due to high, fixed costs. I studied why General Motors failed. I looked into the failures at Border’s and Barnes & Noble. The...
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A Great Moment To Build Wealth: Hold Expenses Steady When Income Rises
A common psychological trait that most people share is a desire to experience forward progress—the harnessing of that trait, after all, is one of the reasons why it is much easier to stick with an...
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Investing Advice To Carry You Through The Next Decade
If you get nothing else from reading the articles on this site, you should pay attention to the strategy advocated by business scholar professor Robert Novy-Marx, whose philosophy can be summed up as...
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Gilead Sciences: Approaching Buy-And-Hold, Permanent Investment Territory
Every so often, I get an e-mail from a reader curious to know what company will be the next big player to shake up or join an industry. In response, I very rarely have something new to add to that...
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Most Americans Have No Idea How Financially Savvy And Borderline Brilliant...
Sometime in the next month, I’m going to get around to completing posts on Charles Barkley and Steve Harvey, with the discussion point being that both men have very shrewd financial lives and breadth...
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What If You Can Live Off Your Dividends?
I’ve spent part of my day studying General Mills (sexy, I know) because the company sells products like flour and Cheerios that are immediately recognized as indispensable. The stock never seems...
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Bed Bath & Beyond: When You Buy A Non-Dividend Stock
We’ll abandon the site’s namesake for the day and talk about times when it makes sense to buy shares of stock in a company that does not pay any dividends to shareholders. Generally speaking, the best...
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AutoZone Is Gobbling Up Its Own Stock (A Look At One Of The Great Buybacks Of...
Every now and then, you stumble across a company that does not show up on the radar of many investors, often due to its size, lack of a dividend, or decidedly unsexy business model that nevertheless...
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Realty Income’s Returns Go Off The Chart When You Reinvest The Dividends
Realty Income is an interesting company for a couple of reasons: the starting yield is usually high, with investors throughout much of its publicly traded life being able to establish a position with...
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“I Like My Job And I’m Good At It, So Why Should I Care About Investing?”
This is a rare topic that I haven’t gotten to address yet explicitly, and I’m glad I now get the chance—I recently heard from a reader who mentioned that she enjoys her job, is quite good at it, is...
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What The End Game For Tobacco Stocks Would Look Like
If you own a conventional dividend company—let’s go with Colgate-Palmolive as an example—there are three techniques (buybacks, volume growth, and raised prices) to raise profits that principally flow...
View ArticleBeneficiary Forms Can Override Your Last Will And Testament
You know that deprecating saying that goes around about how the average American spends more time researching the right fridge to buy than studying investing? There’s a corollary to that that should be...
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Picking Up A New Skill For The Next Stock Market Recession
One of the general truisms for investors during a sharp market decline of 20% or more like we saw in 2008-2009 is that, as long as you are a net buyer of solvent companies, you are bound to do well....
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