Investing in Companies with Cash
Image via Wikipedia The economic recovery has been slow and there are still all sort of economic warning signs. Thus many companies have been accumulating cash reserves to protect against the dreaded “W” shaped recovery. That is, folks have been concerned that the economy would take another dive before resuming economic growth. What we see […]
Dividend Stocks
For an investor who wants steady income as well as growth, investing in dividend stocks can fill the bill. There are quite a few companies that have paid increasing dividends without a break for decades. There are even companies that have not missed a dividend payment for more than a century. This short list includes companies that have been paying dividends for more than 120 years!
Exxon Mobile
Johnson Controls
Coca Cola
Colgate Palmolive
Consolidated Edison
Procter & Gamble
UGI
York Water
Eli Lilly and Company
Stanley Black and Decker
(List courtesy of The Motley Fool)
A common misconception is that dividend stocks are not growth stocks. However, over five and ten […]
Today’s Value Investing
Image via Wikipedia Today’s value investing is the same as the value investing taught by Benjamin Graham and practiced by the likes of Warren Buffett. The stock investing news is full of news and advice about today’s value investing. Fund managers are touting companies with strong balance sheets, lots of cash, and low price to […]
Pension Obligation Bonds
Image via Wikipedia Pension obligation bonds were a great idea for about a minute and a half in 1985 when the city of Oakland, California used them. Oakland issued tax exempt bonds at a prevailing rate for tax exempt bonds and then turned around and invested the money in vehicles such as Treasury Bills offering […]
Investing in Oil
As oil in developed countries such as the United States and Canada became harder to find and less profitable, oil companies moved offshore, to Alaska and to the Third World. Investing in oil has been subject to the risk of nationalization across the globe. In general it has become harder to make money in oil. […]
Investing in Gold
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There are a number of attractive options for investing in gold and there are pitfalls. Gold stock investing includes mining companies and derivatives. Many gold bugs will say that how to invest in the stock market during hard economic times is to invest in gold. However, the true gold bug will advise that you buy and hoard gold bullion or rare gold coins. A current scare tactic in the gold coin market is that “the government will come again for your gold.” Roosevelt signing his executive order to prevent gold hoarding is rewritten as the confiscation of gold. […]
Investing in Beer
Whether you drink beer or not, investing in beer can be quite profitable. In looking at the different types of stock that do well during recessions and profit during recoveries large brewers typically are on the list. Whether your beer of choice is made by Anheuser-Busch or Inbev, Molson Coors or Carlsberg these companies have […]
Debt and Growth
As a number of states are struggling with deficits bond buyers are happily looking at after tax yields of close to 7% from states like California at the same time that 10 year US Treasury notes are going for less than 4%. It is usually the other way around. However, looking at debt and growth […]
Picking New Winners
Rising from the ashes of the stock market crash are a number of banks and other companies that have caught the eye of investors. Many of the new companies, banks especially, are very new, with little to go on for fundamental analysis except that some of the stars of the old banking industry have split […]
When Should You Invest in the Stock Market?
Most of us tend to get mesmerized by the talks going around us about the profits that people are making through stock market investments. Although one may not be aware of what the stock market is all about, but just by listening to some media updates or someone’s massive success in it, we end up […]