How To Avoid “Awww, To Hell With It” Investing Syndrome
Usually, when a hear from a reader who wants to avoid letting material success get to his read, I recommend that he start regularly reading C.S. Lewis. It is hard to be a prick when you read lines like...
View ArticleMcDonald’s Dividend Under Realistic Bad Conditions
I’ve been studying McDonald’s this morning and checking out how the terms are different for the folks that buy shares of the stock compared to the early 2000s when the starting dividend yield was under...
View ArticleThe First $100 Dividend Check
Hi Tim. I’ve been reading your site for the past six months… [a few paragraphs I removed]… I’m just starting out, and I gotta say, receiving my first $100 dividend check completely changed everything...
View ArticleThe Kinder Morgan Family To Combine Into One Kinder Morgan Company
If you look for wisdom from people who are dedicated to long-term investing—creating the kind of financial investment situations where you make decisions in 1990 that are still affecting you in 2014,...
View ArticleKinder Morgan: What Lies Ahead For Investors?
I’ve finally got the chance to take a look at the Kinder Morgan consolidation, and am finally getting around to that promised post on the deal. The Kinder Morgan investments have fascinated me for...
View ArticleDividend Growth Investing Right Now In 2014
In August 2011, I wrote my first financial piece online. Even though I’ve been at it for three years, that has not been enough time to cover a full business cycle. Really, since 2009, the stock market...
View ArticleHow Warren Buffett’s Cities Service Preferred Investment Can Change Your Life
From Alice Schroeder’s biography “Snowball” about Warren Buffett: By the age of twelve, Warren had saved $120. In the spring of 1942, he enlisted his sister Doris as a partner and purchased three...
View ArticleThe Big End of Summer Investment Opportunity
All, I just posted an extended analysis (approximately 2500 words) concerning my largest purchase of the year so far. It is a large company with a dividend yield in excess of the S&P 500 and a...
View ArticleAbbott Labs: Dividend Investing During Humdrum Times
Today’s a sad day as I’ve been coming to grips with the fact that I have chosen the wrong topic for my site. I should’ve killed this whole passive income thing and gone into women’s lifestyle blogging....
View ArticleA Growth Stock Investing Lesson From Noodles & Company
Have any of you been checking out the price action in Noodles & Company since it posted its quarterly earnings figure a few days ago? After reporting that each share of the stock earned $0.12 in...
View ArticleAltria Investors Continue To Get Rich
One of the truly lucrative opportunities—and you only have to get it right once or twice to permanently change your life—that faced investors in the past five years was the opportunity to buy the...
View ArticleThe Discussions Concerning Procter & Gamble Miss The Forest For The Trees
If you’ve read the headlines about Procter & Gamble’s plans for its future lately, you have probably encountered headlines like “Procter & Gamble Set To Shed 100+ Brands” or other similar...
View ArticleHow To Use Income Investing For Index Funds
Possibly the most underrated tool in portfolio risk management is this: Take the dividends that you are receiving from a cash cow, high income-generating asset, and then redeploy those dividends into...
View ArticleA Good Time To Sell The Low-Quality Stocks That Slithered Into Your Portfolio
In 2009, the S&P 500 went up. In 2010, the S&P 500 went up. In 2011, the S&P 500 went up. In 2012, the S&P 500 went up. In 2013, the S&P 500 went up. So far in 2014, the S&P 500...
View ArticleThe Future Of Anheuser-Busch’s Dividend
In the past month or so, I’ve become very curious about trying to figure out what Anheuser-Busch’s dividend future might look like. At first, my curiosity was tied to the fact that I’m from St. Louis,...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s 2004 Special Dividend And Growth Investing
I was reading a forum post at Money Crashers where Hank Coleman wrote an article four years ago concerning the effectiveness of one-time dividends, with Microsoft’s $32 billion special dividend in 2004...
View ArticleCampbell Soup Vs. Disney Dividends (When Higher Yield Leads To Inferior...
Peter Lynch once remarked that casual investors know just enough to be dangerous when they start combining two principles—the belief that having heard of a company that’s been around for a while is...
View ArticleBerkshire Hathaway: Breaking The Traditional Rules Of Income Investing
Lately, I’ve been coming around to the notion that buying Berkshire Hathaway is on the short list of “very intelligent” moves you can make today if your time horizon is 15+ years out and you are...
View ArticleCitigroup Stock Pre-2008: When Investors Can Never Truly Recover
Most of the time, when we discuss stocks that have been irreparably harmed, we are talking about companies that have gone bankrupt, or have seen prices deteriorate so much that investors will never...
View ArticleAltria Owns 27.0% Of SABMiller
When someone considers buying a stock, there are two types of thoughts that could enter his mind: market decisions and investment decisions. A market decision is what you’d expect; someone buys a stock...
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