So far in this series of posts on dividend stocks that are currently trading at “bargain” prices I’ve highlighted a high-yielding utility stock and a top drugstore chain with a fast-growing dividend. In this post I look at the world’s largest publicly owned integrated oil company, which is of course Exxon Mobil (XOM: 60.88 -0.29%, [...]
In my last post I highlighted a utility stock that was trading 60% below its 2008 highs and paying an over 6% dividend yield. In this post I look at something completely different – the much lower yielding, but much faster-growing dividend stock of Walgreen Co. (WAG: 28.55 +0.88%, yld: 2.08%), the largest drugstore chain [...]
It’s always interesting to read Jeremy Grantham’s latest thoughts on the market. In his just published Q4 2009 letter (embedded below) he reiterates his view that the market, as represented by the S&P 500, is worth only 850 and that any advance from current levels will make it “seriously overpriced.”
Still, he says, the high-quality component [...]
A while back I posted an example of how money managers can be hazardous to your financial health. Now Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, has provided us with a more recent example of how blindly following financial “experts” can prove costly (and confusing).
In this case it involves his recommendation(s) on Lockheed Martin (LMT: [...]
A recent post at the dividend investing blog Dividends Value lists the author’s choices for the 10 Best U.S. Dividend Stocks. Not surprisingly these include such stellar dividend payers as Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, 3M and Abbott Laboratories to name a few, as well as four honorable mentions.
The post goes on to [...]
