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 [...]
Dividends Value notes three companies that raised their dividends this week - one of them a financial! Here’s my quick take on the three dividend stocks mentioned (the stars represent Dividendinvestor.com’s star ranking system - three stars are five years of consecutive dividend increases, four stars are ten, and five stars are 20):
Hatteras Financial (HTS: [...]
In its April issue, Forbes highlights some dividend stock picks of Paul Davis, co-manager of the Schwab Dividend Equity fund. Surprisingly (or maybe not) he’s willing to buy into - or hold onto - stocks of companies that have cut their dividends.
His thinking? In these especially tough times a dividend cut today may mean a [...]
As a dividend investor, I often focus on companies that have a demonstrated history of dividend growth, like the Dividend Aristocrats. As wonderful as many of these investments are, and may continue to be, I often wonder which companies will join that elite group in the next ten, twenty or thirty years?
Dividend Tree was [...]
In an article just posted at TheStockAdvisors.com, investment advisory service IQ Trends offers a look at its current “Timely Ten” high-quality dividend-paying stocks. According to IQ Trends, these are “undervalued” stocks offering good long-term dividend growth, an S&P dividend and earnings quality rating of A- or better, and low debt and payout ratios, as well [...]
You can now screen for dividend stocks using the Motley Fool’s CAPS rating system as a screening criterion. The new CAPS stock screener includes the CAPS rating along with many of the usual financial metrics, and offers preset configurations for “Value,” “Dividend,” “Small Cap,” and “High Growth.”
In today’s article on “5 Dynamic Dividend Stocks,” a [...]
An article just posted by Dividends Value offers an instructive look at how to evaluate companies to see if they’re likely to sustain and grow their dividends (see “In Dividend Investing, Cash Is King“).
Two companies - Genuine Parts (GPC: 40.56 +0.20%, yld: 3.98%) and General Electric (GE: 16.49 +1.35%, yld: 2.46%) - are compared with [...]
As today’s widely predicted dividend cut by Alcoa (AA: 13.67 -0.80%, yld: 0.87%) shows, it’s not especially difficult these days to identify companies who are about to slash their dividends. But what about predicting the companies who are about to raise their dividends?
David Peltier, manager of the Dividend Stock Advisor, does just that in the [...]
