S&P 500 Introduction 2022 has been a bad year price-wise for the stock market as measured by the S&P 500. However, I contend that is not enough to simply know that the market is down, it is even more important to know why.
Medical Properties Trust (MPW) claims to be the second largest nongovernmental owner of hospitals in the world.
Cannabis stock Innovative Industrial Properties Inc. (IIPR) claims to be “the leading provider of real estate capital for the regulated cannabis industry.”
After enjoying a long-running bull stock market, the recent drop in stock prices is causing investor angst.
When it comes to investing in stocks, I believe that intelligent investing implies investing for specific objectives or needs.
FedEx (FDX) preannounced an earnings shortfall and the stock price is down more than 20%.
The S&P 500 is a popular proxy to represent the state of the stock market.
Value investing is all about finding bargains that meet your investment goals and provide a margin of safety long-term. HP Inc (HPQ) and Hewlett-Packard Enterprises (HPE) represent two dividend growth stocks with uncanny similarities regarding valuation and yield.
We get a lot of questions about what we call Normal P/E Ratio on a FAST Graph.
3M (MMM) is currently facing many challenges; however, I believe management is up to the challenges.
Investing is a numbers game, and at the beginning it can be very daunting.
In this analyze out loud video, Chuck Carnevale, co-founder of FAST Graphs offers a by-the-numbers review of Magna International Inc. (MGA).
Comcast (CMCSA) is a Dividend Contender with 15 consecutive years of raising its dividend.
Growth stocks can be very powerful long-term investments.
If you are looking for safety when buying stocks, consider stocks with strong balance sheets, and GOOGL has one.
This video reviews 5 investment grade dividend paying growth stocks that appear attractively valued in the industrial sector.
Warren Buffett once famously suggested that investors should be “greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy.”
In this video I will cover 4 dividend growth stocks: Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA), Intel Corp (INTC), International Business Machines (IBM) and AT&T Inc (T).
As I said so many times, although you can learn a great deal from the past, you can only invest for the future.
This bear market we currently find us in is bringing tremendous opportunity.
Bear Market As a card-carrying self-appointed value investor, I relish a bear market and quite frankly recessions. To the astute and disciplined value investor, bear markets bring opportunity, and more to the point, safety. In this video, I will illustrate why I feel this way and why I believe you should as well.
As an old saying states that statistics do not lie, but statisticians are darn liars.
The Federal Reserve is trying to fight inflation by raising interest rates.
In this video I cover 20 stocks requested by subscribers.
I often say that it is a market of stocks and not a stock market.
Since the recession of 2008 in 2009, financial stocks in general have been trading at significantly lower valuations than normal.
Most investors take their cue from stock price volatility.
Welcome to another subscriber request where I will cover 42 stocks.
I believe one of the most dangerous behaviors is the willingness to invest in highly overvalued stocks.
Value investors love recessions because they intelligently recognize that recessions bring opportunity.
It would be an understatement to say that the stock market has been volatile recently.
Although you can learn a great deal from studying the past, you can only invest in the future.
Stocks that do not pay a dividend are often thought of as growth stocks.
Dividend Growth Stocks Dividend growth stocks are one of the more favored classes of stocks that investors want to hear about.
For one of the few times in history investors can invest in Starbucks stock (SBUX) on sale.
Stocks come in all sizes, shapes, and flavors. Nothing could illustrate that better than the 31 stocks you asked to see last week.
In this video you will see dividend growth stocks, some that remain overvalued, some that have become undervalued and everything in between.
Stanley Black & Decker has increased their dividend for 54 consecutive years making it a Dividend Aristocrat, Dividend Champion and a Dividend King.
Even though Netflix (NFLX) stock is down approximately 35% today, I contend the company is still too expensive to invest in.
As a result of the recent bear market action in stocks, many have fallen to 52-week lows.
The bull market has created a lot of risk for prudent value investors.
For several years now it has been almost impossible to find dividend growth stocks with impeccable quality at reasonable prices.
On August 24, 2021, I presented two attractively valued dividend growth stock portfolios. One portfolio emphasized growth over income, and the other emphasized income over growth.
There are several sources of return that can be achieved by investing in common stocks.
Dividend Contenders are mostly fast-growing dividend growth stocks that increase their dividends for 10 to 25 consecutive years.
For this Subscriber Request Tuesday, I was asked to provide examples of dividend growth stocks that were getting cheaper because of the current market drops.
Most investors experience stress during a bear market. In contrast, value investors like yours truly become excited almost to the point of being giddy. We see bear markets as the gift that keeps on giving. This is especially true after a long-running bull market like we have experienced for the last several years.
Cybersecurity Stocks Now that Russia has invaded Ukraine, the threat of cyber-attacks from Russian hackers has intensified. Many are concerned regarding Russian retaliation for sanctions. Nevertheless, Russian hackers were already notorious for attacking companies’ networks demanding ransomware.
Finding attractively valued and high-yielding investments is difficult in the current market and economic environment.
The “holy grail” of value investing is the only important “margin of safety.”