Posts Tagged ‘Investing’
What is a Dividend Aristocrat?
What is a Dividend Aristocrat? I have seen many questions related to dividend-paying stocks. One of the main ones is ‘What is a Dividend Aristocrat?’ Today we’ll look to answer that question as well as provide more detail on dividend stock classifications. Dividend Aristocrats Explained You might have heard the terminology, Dividend Aristocrat. You, like…
Read More7 Lessons I Learned from The Intelligent Investor
The Intelligent Investor Book Review Considered one of the best books on investing of all time, The Intelligent Investor is a must-read for any would-be investor. The principles extolled by Benjamin Graham some 90 years ago still hold true to this day, so much so that the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, espouses the teaches…
Read MoreCaterpillar: CAT Stock Analysis 2019
$CAT Stock Analysis With stocks being beaten up over the Chinese tariff war news, Caterpillar has become an interesting stock to watch. Since its roots are big into the worldwide manufacturing and construction industry, any slowdowns in those sectors could mean slowdowns for CAT as a whole. Here is the current chart for CAT: The…
Read MoreThe Market Is Falling And I am Just Fine
Hey all, I’ve been super busy lately, but still wanted to take the time to write a post for you all, especially with all of the recent market turbulence. Market Drops and YOU Lately, the market has been in a volatile stretch which we haven’t seen in a long time. It seems that one day…
Read MoreTwo Investment Risk Spectrum Strategies
In a dividend investing strategy, each stock purchase falls onto the investment risk spectrum continuum. At one end of this spectrum are lower-yielding stocks that are generally considered less risky. At the other end of the spectrum are higher-yielding stocks that the market views as having more risk, thus, the dividend yield is higher. It…
Read MoreKohl’s: KSS Stock Analysis 2019
Recently, I added a new stock into my dividend portfolio: Kohl’s Corp (KSS). As a value investor, this stock has been becoming more and more valuable as the investing community continues to see the stock price falling due to overarching concerns. Today I wanted to offer my analysis on Kohl’s. The Screener: KSS As part…
Read MoreShould FIREs Incur Interest Expense?
Interest expense; the “necessary evil”. I put necessary evil in quotations because, in today’s society, we are taught that in order to have the things that you want, you must borrow, thus incurring interest expense. Even though general wisdom states that debt is to be avoided, there is an overarching acceptance of the mad money…
Read MoreWho Is Mr. Market?
Mr. Market is the affectionate term for the general crazy reactions of the stock market as a whole. It is a term invented by master value investor Benjamin Graham, in his 1949 masterpiece, The Intelligent Investor. Mister Market is an erratic, idiosyncratic personality, which reacts to market news with quick trades that oftentimes go against…
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