Tis the season to be spending...
Posted on November 26, 2010 by
Andrew Padgett
Articles by tag - stocks
Merck (MRK), a leading pharma giant, is under pressure thanks to its disastrous roll-out of Vioxx, and a shaky drug pipeline. However, the company has paid a dividend every year for the last 40 years, and sits on a generous 4% yield.
Posted on November 15, 2010 by
Sean Riskowitz
Over $350 in account benefits with the Cash Management Account and IRA service.
Posted on October 10, 2010 by
Andrew Padgett
One of the greatest fallacies of investing is the dependence on historical data and returns for the basis of investment decisions. You will often hear investors saying, âover the long-run stocks always beat bonds!â Recently, the opposite has been said because bond returns have trumped stocks in the last 30 years. This must mean that bonds are better investments than stocks right? These are false conclusions. What really matters is what is going to happen in the future, not what happened in the past.
Posted on September 28, 2010 by
surlytrader
They both have their share of pros and cons. Find out which investment is smarter for you and your retirement.
Posted on August 02, 2010 by
Andrew Padgett
It has been about 7 months exactly since I wrote Expect the Unexpected. The last six trading days have been a glorious example of unpredictable trading in the equity markets. During those six days, the S&P 500 has fallen 6% and then regained nearly all of its ground.
Posted on July 08, 2010 by
surlytrader
Leggett & Platt (LEG) is one of the most impressive dividend payers in the S&P 500 Index, with an incredible track record. The company also manufactures products people use everyday - bed components!
Posted on June 15, 2010 by
Sean Riskowitz
Stock exchange operator NYSE EuroNext (NYX) may be the source of much volatility over the past few years, but the company itself yields over 4% in dividends.
Posted on June 15, 2010 by
Sean Riskowitz
Warren Buffett has been selling stocks this year, and he's doing it at a rate we haven't seen for a long time.
Posted on May 19, 2010 by
Sean Riskowitz
Income is a crucial aspect of all investment strategies. In my previous post, âIncome from Equities or Bondsâ, I made an unbiased argument that the dividend yield from stocks looked better than the income from most fixed income investments. That view remains true even though the yield on 10 year bonds has increased by 20 bps since that article on March 6th. By looking at the dividend yields of large cap stocks drawn from the S&P 500 versus the 10 year treasury yield, we can see that some stocks still look like a good value versus fixed income.
Posted on April 13, 2010 by
surlytrader
One of the most difficult aspects in long-term investing is to keep your long investments on even though you feel like there just *has* to be an equity correction coming soon. Your traditional options are simple: 1) hold on/pray or 2) sell everything and hope for a correction that comes with a sign of when to get back in.
Posted on March 31, 2010 by
surlytrader
Retail investors piled record numbers of assets into mutual funds over the past 52 weeks. This, coupled with a 17-month high in the market, spells danger for the conservative investor.
Posted on March 19, 2010 by
Sean Riskowitz
From 1983 to 2008 Klarman's hedge fund, the Baupost Group, returned 16.5% a year, outperforming the S&P 500 by more than 6% a year. In the 10 years ending December 31, 2008, he beat the market by an impressive 14.5% a year. Here are his lessons for investors from the crisis of 2008.
Posted on March 11, 2010 by
Sean Riskowitz
Since the fundamental outlook from a top-line revenue perspective still does not look great, companies turn to three alternatives to expansion: 1) share buybacks; 2) higher dividends; and 3) leveraged buyouts. All three of these are bad for bondholders and mostly positive for stockholders.
Posted on March 07, 2010 by
surlytrader
