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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...
View ArticleThose 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...
View ArticleWhy The Grinnell Endowment Is $1.5 Billion Instead of $19.5 Billion
At the end of 2013, Grinnell College had an endowment of $1.5 billion. Not bad for a student body of 1,700 situated on a 120-acre campus in Iowa. The endowment has reached such a blessed size because...
View ArticleFayez Sarofim Knows How To Create A Conservative, High-Growth Portfolio
About this time last year, I talked about Fayez Sarofim for the first time when I referenced his extensive art collection and some of the very interesting personal life that has marked his eight...
View ArticleWhy Not Put Your Money Into Index Funds?
Interesting question came my way from reader Scott: ….But Tim, wouldn’t most investors be better off simply owning index funds instead of trying to pick successful companies themselves? Scott, I like...
View ArticleThe Opportunity To Build An Energy Portfolio Is Right Now
One of the blessings that comes with the territory of investing in individual companies rather than a widespread basket of stocks like the S&P 500 is that you get to allocate your money to specific...
View Article The American Express “America” Commercial For Small-Business Owners
Happy Belated Small Business Owner’s Day! Speaking of which, did any of you see that American Express commercial showing support for American small businesses by playing the Simon & Garfunkel...
View ArticleMyth: Everything Is Priced Into The Stock
Daniel Solin wrote an article in October that has gotten a lot of attention, and you can read it here: “Investors: Researching Stocks Is A Total Waste Of Your Time.” While each peg is probably...
View ArticleShould Morality Prevent You From Buying Blue-Chip Stocks?
One of the consequences of truly understanding what it means to invest in common stocks is that you come to appreciate that you are a part owner in the business that you select. Sure, someone with 100...
View ArticleBenjamin Graham And Jeremy Siegel on IPO Investing
I do not write about IPOs often. As far as I am concerned, there is only one privately traded company in the United States that would engender “must have” status if it became traded on the stock...
View ArticleAnnuities In 401(k) Plans Are A Terrible Idea
Susan Conrad, you get a gold star. When asked to comment on the new proposal to include annuity options in a 401(k) plan, Ms. Conrad said, “All annuities are not created equal, and that concerns me....
View ArticleTime Diversification Is Important When You Sell A Business Or Receive An...
Other than people looking to get started investing, by far the most common correspondence I receive from readers is the profile of someone who received a significant amount of money either through...
View ArticleThe Condescension In The Financial Industry Continues To Bother Me
In order to persuade someone of something, there are two things you have to do right: you have to have the right message, and you have to deliver the message in a persuasive way such that the person on...
View ArticleMy Philosophy On Long-Term Oil Investing
Royal Dutch Shell pays out a dividend of $0.94 per quarter, or $3.76 per year. The price of the stock currently sits at $69.83 per share, an inch above the company’s fifty-two week low price of $68.29...
View ArticleMental Anchoring And Investor Folly
When you build an ownership collection of the best companies in earth—I have in mind firms like Visa, Coca-Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and Chevron—there is a pleasant occurrence you can come to...
View ArticleMarket Capitalization to Gross Domestic Product Can’t Predict The Stock Market
When Warren Buffett started his investing career, he would respond to general questions about whether the stock market was overvalued or undervalued by pointing to the ratio between the market...
View ArticleWhat Scares Me The Most About The American Economy
Hi Tim. I have seen Warren Buffett mention that the threat of nuclear weapons is what scares him the most about the future of America. I understand that this is a personal question, but I hoped you...
View ArticleFive Dividend Commandments For Creating Permanent Wealth
All of my articles, summed up into one: #1. If you want to own companies that you can hold for three decades without thinking about hardly at all, then you have to avoid banks and the tech sectors...
View ArticleSome People Can’t Help Themselves From Selling
Jeremy Siegel’s advice that buying large energy companies when they are out of favor, and holding through thick and thin, seems to have been going through an animadversion of sorts lately. I’ve been...
View ArticleYou All Love Buying ExxonMobil Through Computershare
Every now and then, when I am looking to procrastinate before I get down to write an article, I check through the search engine traffic to see what is bringing new people to the site. Pretty...
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