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 [...]
In addition to earnings, one of the things that determines a company’s ability to keep paying a dividend is its level of free cash flow – the cash that a company has left over after paying its required operating expenses. With that in mind, a recent article in SmartMoney looked at “3 Stocks With [...]
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: [...]
Top yielding electric utility stocks are the subject of a post today at Stockerblog. Three utility stocks in particular are mentioned – none of which, unfortunately, are going to make it on to my active watchlist.
Here’s my quick take on the three utility stocks mentioned (the stars represent Dividendinvestor.com’s star ranking system – three stars [...]
