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People Buying Eli Lilly Stock Right Now Are Going To Have Minimal Gains The...
One of the reasons why I like studying companies that have been growing their dividend by a rate of 7% or more annually for the past ten years is that, not only am I finding businesses that are...
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Oil Stocks And The Power Of Reinvested Dividends On My Mind Again
With the price of oil now at $78, something I consider unusually low because Saudi Arabia rarely maintains its production amidst declining prices (usually, the Saudis run their oil spigots in a...
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Collecting $10,000 Dividends On A $10,000 Investment
Collecting $10,000 in annual dividend income from a $10,000 initial investment is the holy grail of income investing. More broadly, collecting annual income equal to the amount you invest is almost...
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The Best Value Stock Investment In The Stock Market Right Now
Sick of the commodities posts yet? No? Good, because that’s what is cheap right now. Let’s cover I don’t think we’ve discussed here before—BHP Billiton, the most diversified materials producer on the...
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Companies Are Bad At Stock Buybacks, So What Can You Do?
I was recently studying the terrible record of financial institutions when it comes to repurchasing their own stock—I read that AIG, Citigroup, Lehman Brothers, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and...
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An Investing Life Tip From Dr. Thomas Stanley
You may have noticed that on the right bar of the site, I have added a link to Dr. Thomas Stanley’s excellent book “The Millionaire Next Door” (full disclosure: if you click on the book and purchase...
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Should You Buy Gold, Silver, Oil And Other Commodities?
There are people in this country that make 401(k) investments by bringing up a comparative chart of the last year, three-year, five-year, and ten-year performance, and then making automatic paycheck...
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My Two Favorite Growth Companies Have Shot Up In Price Significantly
Yes, this article you are about to read is a first-world problem. Throughout this past year, I have made no secret of the fact that Visa and Gilead Sciences are two of my favorite companies if you are...
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A Very Lucrative Investment Over The Next Fifteen Years
The past decade has been a godsend for income investors that have owned McDonald’s stock because the profits have grown by 14.5% annually and the dividend has grown by 25.5% annually. Those $0.55...
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Warren Buffett Continues To Sell, Sell, Sell Procter & Gamble
Warren Buffett’s largest stock holdings at Berkshire Hathaway might change more often than you think they do. If you pull up an annual report of Berkshire from 2005, you will see the largest stock...
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T. Rowe Price Africa & Middle East Fund: Should You Buy It?
Yum Brands. Diageo. Nestle. Wal-Mart. Coca-Cola. If you ever develop the urge to invest in Africa, look to buy stock in those five companies which are currently investing throughout the continent to...
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This Is Not The Right Time To Make A Large Colgate-Palmolive Stock Purchase
Colgate-Palmolive is probably one of my favorite businesses—if someone said I had to make a decision today to only own eight stocks for the rest of my life, and the list could never be changed, it...
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High Yield, No Growth Stocks Aren’t Some Terrible Blight Upon Humanity
In 2002, Otter Tail made $1.79 per share in profits on behalf of its owners. For those of you unfamiliar with the company, it is a small, $1 billion-sized northern electric company with 2,300...
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The Best Argument In Favor Of Reinvested Dividends
The best argument in favor of the reinvestment of dividends—particularly pertaining to companies that you know will be bigger and stronger ten years from now—is that your money immediately is put to...
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Wal-Mart The Stock Vs. Wal-Mart The Business
I don’t think people realize how difficult it is to deliver annual returns in the 10% range once you reach a certain size. In the case of Wal-Mart, it is almost incomprehensible how huge this company...
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Warren Buffett’s IBM Investment And Its Dividends
If you are a close follower of IBM’s stock, you know what has been the general story for the company over the past several years: IBM has been having trouble transitioning to the cloud and growing...
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Vanguard Natural Resources: A Brilliant Financial Crisis Income Investment
Lately, I’ve been studying the opportunities that showed up during the 2008-2009 financial crisis to get clues about what would be the most intelligent behavior during the next time the...
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What If You Treated AT&T Dividends Like A Big Fat Mother Goose?
I recently heard from a reader who mentioned that his wife had over 2,700 shares of AT&T stock sitting in an individual retirement account (IRA), and was seeking my input on whether such a heavy...
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General Electric: What If You Reinvested Dividends Through The Hell?
One of the reasons why I have chosen blue-chip investing as the medium of choice to advocate is because there is so much downside protection—absent falling demand due to technology change or a lack of...
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Those Rarely Mentioned Excellent Blue-Chip Companies
Some of you have written in to me asking why certain blue-chip stocks don’t get mentioned, or only get mentioned in passing, here on the site. I can’t speak for everything, but often it has to do with...
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