Dividend Stocks Cannot Fire You
I was reading an article on Buzzfeed that is about two holidays too old which detailed the aftermath for some people that wore socially unacceptable Halloween costumes. Although each story contained...
View ArticleHow To Almost Guarantee You’ll End Up Rich
When you compare the state of the American republic today to where it was sixty years ago, one of the things that is clear is that economic security is more difficult to attain due to structural...
View ArticleThe Costco Casket: Funeral Homes Must Accept It
I was recently reading through some of Peter Lynch’s old books and essays (One Up On Wall Street, Beating The Street, etc.), searching either for wisdom I missed my first time through or to refresh...
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Duke Energy Stock: Why Shareholders Don’t Get Rich
In 2001, the price of Duke Energy stock was $81. In 2019, it is $90. A generation of one’s investing life has come and gone, and Duke Energy shareholders have almost no capital appreciation to show for...
View ArticleOnly Fools Believe In Buy And Hold, The World Is Ending, Etc.
When I discuss the concept of holding stocks for 25+ years and letting the growing cash dividends surround you like Scrooge McDuck when he does his daily money bath swim, I often hear from people that...
View ArticleWhat Time Does The Stock Market Open?
Many people find their way onto my site because they are trying to look up when the United States stock markets open. I’ve never written an article to that effect, but hey, it’s what brings people here...
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McCormick Stock’s Secret Sauce
Have you noticed that, during the 2015 through 2019 stretch, McCormick has traded at an elevated valuation of approximately 25x earnings? From 1975 through 2014, the average P/E ratio of the stock was...
View ArticleShould You Hire A Financial Advisor?
If you have twenty minutes to set aside, I highly recommend you read this. It very well might be the best article I have ever read on The Motley Fool website. Molly McCluskey, John Reeves, and IIan...
View ArticleDon’t Let Life Pass You By As You Get Rich
Take a moment and read this story I found on the Bogleheads forum. It is absolutely excellent. It is from user “sperry8”: My quick story… Grew up in an upper middle class neighborhood spoiled by a...
View ArticleThe Start Investing With Stocks 101 Guide
When I solicited for questions right before Thanksgiving, the most common question that I received was something to the effect of: How do you get started investing if you have a low income and don’t...
View ArticleHow Dividend Investors Can Protect Their Principal
One of the interesting things about owning a high-quality asset such as an obviously excellent business is that it only takes a few years of dividends and general profit growth to protect the principal...
View ArticleThe Four Keys To Get Rich With Failure
One of the first moments when it hit me that I would make a ton of investing mistakes over the course of my lifetime is when I read admissions from Warren Buffett about the investing mistakes that he...
View ArticleThe Fun Thing About Blue-Chip Dividend Stocks
You know what makes all of this finance writing about blue chips fun for me? The continuity of almost everything. When I started writing for Seeking Alpha in 2011, I was saying the same things about...
View ArticleJack Puelicher’s 1982 Letter To Shareholders
In 1982, Jack Puelicher, the CEO of Marshall & Ilsley, wrote an annual report which read, in entirety, as follows: “Your company had a very good year in 1982. Some of it was due to luck; some of it...
View ArticleThe Diamond In The Rough
There is a company, founded in 1889, with a long track record of rewarding its shareholders, that is now trading at a P/E ratio below its historical norms while it is primed to grow earnings per share...
View ArticleNever Sell A Blue-Chip Stock That Drowns You In Dividends
When I receive e-mails from people who have come across this blog and want to discuss portfolio strategy, I’ve found that a good chunk of readers have taken to a dividend growth strategy even if they...
View ArticleLoyal3 Investing: Why Folio First Took Over
Back in 2011, Barry Schneider launched Loyal3 for the purpose of allowing the mom-and-pop small investor to have a chance to invest alongside institutional Wall Street investors in initial public...
View ArticleBuy Your Kids Johnson & Johnson Stock For Christmas
On page 175 of Janet Lowe’s book, Damn Right! Behind The Scenes With Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger, Ms. Lowe quotes Charlie as saying: “People underrate the importance of a few simple...
View ArticleBP Stock: Big Dividends and Cash Flow
Since I began writing finance articles in 2011, a few opinions of mine have received outsized criticism. Anything relating to gold or tobacco, and anything relating to BP’s merits as an investment...
View ArticleWhy Do Some CEOs Only Work For A Dollar Per Year?
I was recently studying the various Kinder Morgan energy companies as potential investments, and I got sidetracked into studying the life of Richard Kinder himself. He’s a pretty interesting dude—he...
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