Best Buy Stock As A Long-Term Investment
For a company with a wildly impressive track record of rewarding shareholders, Best Buy sure is an ugly company. Since 1985, Best Buy has compounded wealth for shareholders at a rate of 20.58% annually...
View ArticleAT&T And DirecTV: Dividend Outlook Post-Merger
Since 2008, AT&T has established the custom of raising its quarterly dividend by a penny per share, or $0.04 annually. That pattern has taken the $1.60 dividend in 2008 up to $1.88 here in 2015....
View ArticleApple To Replace AT&T In The Dow Jones
Because of the coincidence that I wrote an article about AT&T’s merger with DirecTV on the eve of the Dow Jones announcement that Apple would be replacing AT&T in the Dow Jones Index, I...
View ArticleHow A Beginner Should Start Investing With The Right Mindset
Although there are a couple of exceptions, there are very few things that send people to this site quite like searching Google for advice on how to start the beginning stages of dividend investing....
View ArticleBlendle: The Reason Some Online Articles Will Start Costing $0.20 Each
As a small fish in the publishing industry, I understand why it can be difficult to develop a business model that is sustainable for the long term, especially when you use the old profit expectations...
View ArticleThe Long-Term Threat To Visa, Mastercard, Discover, And American Express
After I recently discussed a college friend that is currently focusing on making large share purchases in the four major credit card companies each month, a reader asked me why I wouldn’t do that...
View ArticleFacebook The Business (Not The Stock)
Usually, when it comes to stocks with high growth rates, I don’t get to show my full appreciation for the business because the P/E ratio is something obscene (thus obliterating the margin of safety...
View ArticleA Medium Risk, High Reward Oil Investing Opportunity
On August 29th, 2014, shares of Whiting Petroleum traded at $92.92 per share. It was about a $15 billion company. Although it does not pay a dividend, it has an important distinguishing characteristic...
View ArticleGeneral Electric Keeps Selling Pieces Of GE Capital
One of the hard parts about studying companies is recognizing how singular transactions can change the risks associated with the business even though the outward appearance remains the same. It is hard...
View ArticleThe Chorus Of People Criticizing Conoco Phillips
Here is a quick piece of information that will help you funnel oil-related news better. Whenever you hear people talk about current production in the Bakken oil fields, that usually refers to Exxon...
View ArticleThe Terms Of The BHP Billiton Spinoff Of South32
I’ve been conversing with the investor relations department at BHP Billiton trying to figure out the terms of the South32 spinoff of BHP Billiton for American shareholders that own American Depository...
View ArticleSouthern Company Stock In A Dividend Portfolio
In January, the price of Southern Company stock was $53 per share, perhaps giving people some pause that the price of the Southeastern electric giant was drifting towards expensive territory. In...
View ArticleThe South32 Component Of The BHP Billiton Spinoff
I’ve been studying BHP Billiton non-stop the past week or two because the company seems to offer one of the better dividend opportunities in the market today. BHP Billiton has returned almost 13% since...
View ArticleSouth32’s Aluminum Assets After The BHP Billiton Spinoff
Almost 29% of South32 revenue after the presumptive BHP Billiton will consist of Australian aluminum mining assets. Along with company’s silver/zinc division, aluminum will be the largest singular...
View ArticleThe Difference Between Building Wealth And Inventorying Wealth
Today, I saw the wire come through announcing that Campbell Soup will pay a $0.312 quarterly dividend. If someone were to buy shares of Campbell Soup today, he would get a yield of 2.75%. This is the...
View ArticleThe Quiet Search For High Growth Investments
There are two sets of circumstances that can potentially lead to making a life-changing investment. The first type is the one that gets all of the attention: It involves a company gaining market share...
View ArticleGreat Businesses That Cause Investors Trouble
From 2004 through 2014, BHP Billiton grew its profits from $0.86 per share to $5.18 per share, and raised its dividend from $0.33 per share to $2.36 per share. Over that same ten-year time frame, Aflac...
View ArticleRecognizing A Bad Stock Before It Burns You
With the price of oil coming down to the $40 to $50 range, some companies that have fuel charges as a major expense are reporting profits that are higher than usual. You are seeing that with Carnival...
View ArticleImperfect Substitutions For Success And Prosperity
Someone that attended my high school is currently the manager of a McDonald’s franchise in St. Louis. Among other things, he brought up the fact that his compensation and opportunities for advancement...
View ArticleWhen Bob Fifer Admitted His Business Shortcomings
I have quite a few articles that I intend to publish on the Heinz-Kraft merger engineered by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway in partnership with the Brazilian cost-cutters from 3G Capital (Jorge...
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