I’ve taken it down because it needs rewritten to bring it up to date, but my investing philosophy is to essentially use stocks like bonds and get nice yields on my cash. In the meantime, if the stock goes up or down, I don’t care, as long as the stock doesn’t go bankrupt, I get …
AT&T is making big moves, are they good for AT&T, or bad for AT&T. As everyone knows, I’m a dividend guy. I believe in buying the stocks of good companies and then treating them like bonds, collecting interest payments while ignoring price movements. Usually, when you buy a solid, US company stock with a dividend, …
Hey, Boys and Girls, here comes an interesting week for investors. The following article is for informational purposes only and is not investment advice. This is not a recommendation to buy or sell securities. As always, the best investment strategy for long-term investing is building a well-diversified portfolio based upon your time frame and risk …
Advanced Refinance Tricks For the Financially Well Off Got plenty of money socked away for the kids’ college? Already have a retirement plan and funding it well? When someone asks about an emergency fund do you think, sure, which account would I use? Then, here is a trick for you. Mortgage interest rates are at …
Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya? Punk. Best Buy reports earnings next week on Tuesday 11/23/21. Is Best Buy stock a buy before earnings? As you can tell from the subheading, there is a lot of uncertainty around buying Best Buy stock here. Don’t get me wrong. Best Buy is doing really well. Sales …
Verizon just reported its third-quarter results. As always, the finance news is reporting whether or not Verizon stock beat estimates. If that’s the kind of quick news you need to see, then yes, Verizon stock beat estimates for earnings, but revenue was slightly under estimates. Now that we’ve gotten the skin deep financial analysis out …
Why should I invest in dividend stocks? What Are Dividend Stocks? At the most basic level, dividend stocks are stocks that pay dividends. A dividend is a cash payment made by a company to shareholders. Dividends are set by the corporation’s board of directors. Why Invest In Dividend Stocks for Portfolios There are a lot …
Dividend stocks are often an overlooked investment by many Main Street Americans. It isn’t hard to see why. A 3 percent yield on a $5,000 investment isn’t all that impressive, a mere $150 per year, or so. When you are thinking about turning a lifetime of 401k contributions into a retirement plan, that isn’t really …
Procter & Gamble, known mostly as PG, announced their new CEO and predicted solid earnings ahead even though most of the commodities used to make its wide variety of products are increasing in price. PG currently trades around $140 per share, which is the top of its V-shaped chart from the last 12 months. At …
So, weird little bit of financial news today. There are a couple of moving parts, so let’s get those out of the way first. Last summer in July 2020, GE announced that intended to “fully monetized” its stake in Baker Hughes over the next three years. Fully monetize is lingo for sell. Earlier this year, …