International Business Machine After reporting earnings yesterday IBM’s stock price fell 10% and is down another 1% today as I write this. Mr. Market is reacting to IBM’s slight revenue miss despite earnings coming in a penny higher than analyst forecasts. Quarterly revenue was expected to come in at $17.81 billion but instead came in …
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Buy Prudential Financial (PRU) For Dividend Growth And Total Return
6 Dividend Growth Healh & Life Insurance Stocks Prudential Financial is the highest yielding dividend growth stock and most undervalued life and health insurance company in the S&P 500. Therefore, I consider it the best buy among the 6 life and health insurers that are constituents of the S&P 500. Nevertheless, in this video I …
Alibaba (BABA) Too Much Political Risk | FAST Graphs
Is Alibaba Too Risky? Alibaba’s (BABA) stock price along with many other China-based ADRs has fallen precipitously. The question has become: is the political risk too great to invest? An article published in the Wall Street Journal this past weekend motivated me to produce this update. I believe the fundamentals of Alibaba are excellent relative …
Value Trap Or Opportunity? Part 1
What Is A Value Trap? With this week’s Tuesday subscriber request video I will be examining the difference between a value trap and an opportunity. In my experience, most investors in stocks take their lead from stock price movements while simultaneously either overlooking or simply ignoring fundamental values. Therefore, with this video I will attempt …
China Stocks Meltdown – The Truth Be Told
Introduction – China Stocks Although the recent crash or meltdown of prominent China stocks was for the most part political in nature, valuation also played a role. But perhaps most important of all, not all China domiciled stocks can be or should be painted in the same broad-brush. Even within China-based companies, it is a …
Why Dividends Increase Your Wealth
Introduction Dividends Are An Important Source Of Wealth Dividends are paid out of cash flow and/or earnings, not stock price volatility. Stocks (companies) declare a dividend record date which is the date you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The company also sets the ex-dividend date based on …
Investing Can Be Fun and Profitable – 3 Discretionary Stocks
Introduction – Investing in Discretionary Stocks Investing is not always a dreary endeavor; it can also be fun. This is especially true if you can find fun companies to invest in at attractive valuations. At least, for me as Mr. Valuation, the most fun I have is when I find great companies at attractive values. …
This Old Dog Teaching His Young Dog Stock Valuation Tricks
Introduction Stock Valuation I love talking about stock valuation and teaching its importance to investors, especially young investors. True value investing requires patience, and that is a commodity that is in very short supply in most young people. Perhaps even more importantly, it is also very short supply in most investors young and old alike. …
What You Need to Know about IPOs and Emerging Growth Stocks
Introduction Everybody is looking for IPOs and emerging growth stocks and the opportunity to invest in the next Facebook, Amazon or Netflix. Consequently, young new emerging companies have a strong market available to launch their businesses publicly. However, from the perspective of the potential investor, it is very difficult to evaluate young companies with no …
5 Entertainment Stocks to Entertain
Introduction This is a continuing subscriber request video, and this one will be on entertainment stocks. It is important to understand that these are not stocks that I necessarily chose myself. Instead, these are common stocks, in this case growth stocks, that subscribers are interested in and have therefore asked me to provide an analysis …