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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FedEx (FDX) versus UPS: Buy FedEx
FedEx Is A Buy FedEx (FDX) is one of the three largest commercial small parcel delivery companies in the world. UPS (UPS) is in fact the largest, but Federal Express grows faster and is more attractively valued. With this video I will provide a by-the-numbers fundamental look at both companies. Although UPS appears to be …
Subscriber Request: The Trucking Industry
4 Trucking Stocks I reserve each Tuesday for subscriber requests. Most of the time I have familiarity with the companies or the industry that I’m asked to present. However, the trucking industry for whatever reason has not been an industry that I have personally been attracted to. Consequently, this gives me the opportunity to not …
Identifying Value Traps In Advance: Part 2
Introduction to Identifying Value Traps Here is a link to Part 1 In what has become part 2 of this two-part series, I simply identified the difference between a value trap versus a value investment. The sole purpose of that video was to illustrate the distinctions between a true value stock versus a value trap. …
7 Attractively Valued Utility Stocks To Buy Today
Introduction – 7 Stocks to Buy Today With interest rates at all-time lows, investors needing income have flocked to utility stocks driving most of them to unattractively high valuations. Although this is true for most all high quality dividend paying stocks, the problem is exasperated when evaluating utility stocks. For starters, most utilities are regulated, …
3 Model Dividend Growth Portfolios for 3 Different Objectives
Introduction Dividend Growth Portoflios With this video, which is the 3rd and final part of a 3-part series, I present 3 dividend growth portfolios that can be built in today’s generally overvalued market. One portfolio is designed for aggressive current income, the second for realistic current income and the thrid for higher growth of income. …
Constructing A Personal Dividend Income Portfolio: Part 2 – FAST Graphs
Introduction Portfolio Construction In building a dividend income portfolio, or any portfolio for that matter, you need to approach portfolio construction with common sense and realistic appraisal of your own emotional abilities and tendencies. In other words, know thyself. Establish a plan that suits your goals needs and objectives and then follow that plan. To …
Is This 7% Dividend Yield Worth The Risk?
7.11% Dividend Yield With this week’s Subscriber Request Video I will be covering Artesian Partners Asset Management, Inc. (APAM) – a dividend paying high yielding small-cap that appears attractively valued. This will be an interesting video because I will be covering a company that I have not evaluated before. Therefore, this video will represent an …
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 …
Dissecting the Dow Jones Industrial Average: Part 2
Introduction – Dow Jones In part 1 I looked at the most reasonably valued 10 stocks out of the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average Constituents. In this part 2, I examine the second tier of 10 Dow stocks that are overvalued generally to illustrate how richly valued the market is. It is important to point …