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...
View ArticleLife 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...
View ArticleMocking 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleGlaxoSmithKline 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...
View ArticleWhy Did JPMorgan Chase Forgive Canadian Credit Card Debt?
Many of you saw the news today that JP Morgan Chase had decided to forgive the outstanding balances of its Canadian credit card holders as it exits its business in the country. When a bank makes a...
View ArticleYes, 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...
View ArticleHow Capital One and Midland Credit Management Sue You
After covering JP Morgan Chase’s decision to forgive the credit card debt of its Canadian cardholders, I wanted to focus on one of the other big (but often overlooked) credit card stories of our...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleLOYAL3: 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,...
View ArticleExamining Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Negative Net Worth
When I review a politician’s financial disclosures, it is typically pages and pages of mutual fund and ETF holdings in tax shelters such as IRAs and 401ks that total several million dollars. For...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleDividend 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleBuying 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...
View ArticleProcter & 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...
View ArticleWarren 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...
View ArticleTarget: 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...
View ArticleWhy 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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