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Procter & Gamble Stock Investment

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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 this price PG offers a 2.46% annual dividend. This is way more than any of your bank accounts, and comes from a stock that really isn’t going anywhere, up or down, fast. Here is the best part. “Activist shareholder” Nelson Peltz is stepping down from the PG board after the company was able to refuse his proposals to break up the company and move its headquarters in a bid to make more money for himself and other short-term shareholders, without regard to the company’s future, or long-term shareholders. Although Peltz never prevailed on any of his major proposals, the fact that he is stepping down indicates that he is done trying to leverage his “large” position of stock into moves that might not be in the best long-term interests of the company. In all of this commotion, the company also named a new CEO. Jon …

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Baker Hughes Stock Buyback from GE

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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, GE said it sold $1 billion worth of Baker Hughes during the second quarter. GE also announced that it planned to sell another $1.3 billion worth of BKR during the third quarter. That brings us up to date. Baker Hughes announces a $2 billion stock repurchase program In part, the idea behind the share buyback is that Baker Hughes is using some of the profits it has reaped recently thanks to a recovering economy and a carefully controlled quota by OPEC. Buying $2 billion worth of stock would essentially soak up the $2 billion that GE is selling right now. In a world where supply and demand are the only factors that impact a stock’s price, GE’s selling would be pushing the price of BKR down. You can kind of see that in the April to May dip in BKR. Assuming that BKR sold its …

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Best High-Yield Investing Strategy

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The high-yield investing strategy is typically thought of as buying high-yield stocks. High-yield stocks are those stocks that pay a high dividend. The flaw in this strategy is that too often the focus is on yield to the exclusion of some really great investing opportunities that result in high-quality capital appreciation chances as well. Buying those stocks, however, is the best high yield investing strategy. High-yield investing is not the same thing as high-yield savings. If you are looking for information on high-yield savings accounts, try here. Smart High-Yield Investing Let’s start from the beginning. Your best investing strategy for long-term goals like retirement and college investing is a well-diversified portfolio tailored to your goals and risk tolerance. Only after your main portfolio is set up in this manner should you consider other investing strategies. So, go out, get 10% going into your 401k, put a nice hunk of change into your kids’ 529 college savings plans, and fill out your emergency savings. Only after those are taken care of should you be looking at high yield investing. But, if you are going to look at investing strategies, I love what I call smart, high yield. High-Yield with Capital Appreciation …

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Is Volkswagen Stock a Buy?

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Is Volkswagen a good stock to buy right now? Some good news from Volkswagen showing rising car sales, despite a pandemic, and nice profitability. As an added bonus, electric car sales are up, and the company gets it that electric vehicles are the future, sooner rather than later. The only ding from analysts was one analyst saying he was worried that the company was spending too much on R&D. This is small minded, short-term thinking. Block that dude, and move on. The real potential problem is the chip shortage that is affecting all card manufacturers will likely hit Volkswagen too. This means that the company won’t be able to make enough vehicles to continue increasing sales. This guidance to lower sales is the reason the stock is down. As long-term investors interested in a dividend, this is a short-term problem overly focused on by a stock analysis and stock new industry obsessed with short-term stock prices. That means its time for some tire kicking from actual investors. The upside to this that no one is talking about is that the vehicles they can sell will likely sell at higher prices due to decreased supply. That means higher profitability per unit. …

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Dividend Stocks Dividend Yield

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If we are going to talk about dividend stocks we need a way to compare dividends. A dividend is an amount paid to shareholders of a company stock as a return of shareholder capital. Dividends are a sign of a healthy company since the only way for a company to pay out cash is to actually have cash. There is no way to hide a cash payment in a company’s account. This cash payment is part of an individual investor’s overall return. What Is Yield? The yield is simply the return provided by an investment. An investment of $1,000 that returns $100 to you provided a yield of $100. Simple right? But, there are some important variables that need to be understood in order to compare yields. Check out this Zelle review. For example, compare two $1,000 investments. One investment returns $100 in one month. The second investment returns $100 in ten years. Obviously, the first investment is far superior to the second investment. Over the same period of time, the first investment would return $12,000 versus just $100, assuming no reinvestment. Any real comparison of dividends requires that we take time into consideration. What Is Dividend Yield? The dividend …

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IBM Stock Spinning Off Kyndryl

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I have had a love/hate relationship with IBM for a long time. On the one hand, it’s an American staple that successfully spun off its PC business back when it could get a good deal for it. On the other hand, it insists on wasting BILLIONS of dollars on share buybacks that do nothing more than help its executives meet their targets before they ship the stock back out the front door as executive stock options. But, and this is the kicker, IBM kicks out a very sweet dividend. Even when the stock trades sideways, earning 4% in a zero-interest environment with an almost zero chance of bankruptcy, it a great investment. Check out my Stash stock back review. Now, IBM is doing another thing that I don’t really like. IBM is listening to short-term investors who don’t like steady, but non-growth income. Instead, these shareholders want stock price appreciation, even at the cost of a long-term stable business. That means the board wants price appreciation. That means the CEO only earns those millions in bonuses if the stock price goes up, even if the company prints money during the day. As a result, IBM is spinning off its managed …

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7 Deeply Out of Favor Stocks?

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Marketwatch is a finance website that survives by cranking out hundreds of articles per day. There isn’t hundreds of articles per day worth of actual financial news out there each day, so there is a bit of filler. Sometimes, I scroll right by. Sometimes, I wonder if a particular bit of financial analysis is legit. Analyzing Financial News Articles Check the person’s track record first Once you’ve been in the financial writing business for a while, you develop some contacts that you can go to for quotes and looks at finances and the stock market. If you have a big enough platform, financial gurus and analysts will come to you for some publicity. All you have to do is fill in the words around their quotes and fire up some graphs. Ironically, what is NOT part of the job is seeing how and when a particular analysts has fared in the past with their predictions. Accountability is not part of the finance writing world. A smart investor starts by seeing what, if anything the finance person has said in the past, and how right, or wrong they were, beyond the flattering, “He picked the last run up in technology stocks!” …

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Apple Stock and Changing Times

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Apple Stock has gotten a bit of a beat down lately after finally experiencing what everyone knew would have to happen someday. It seems that Apple has finally saturated every market on earth, and there will be no matter automatic increases in number of devices sold in ever category. Of particular concern to most investors is the drop in iPhone sales. It turns out there are two major issues. First, is that in China, iPhones are no longer the must have item they once were. The other is the maturation of markets. Apple No New Products When you make a brand new product, or in Apple’s case, when you create a new product category, you get a sales trajectory that includes people buying it because it is new and different, and surely there is something that you can do with it. Of course, over time, this free pass sort of evaporates as people learn what they can and can’t do, and whether or not those things matter to them.   Recently, Apple enjoyed great success with the iPhone 6, in large part because Apple finally offered a big phone. Naturally, Apple users ran out and bought the bigger phone. However, …

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Buy Apple Stock for Dividends?

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Well, here’s an article I never thought I would write, but is Apple a dividend stock now? Apple’s stock price has been drifting down as of late while investors worry that the company doesn’t have any new amazing products up its sleeve. This worry is particularly curious considering the products the company does have are still market leaders in most categories. And, that those very same products, are almost religiously upgraded by a large number of users every time a new one comes out, especially the company’s most important product, the iPhone. This could be worrying to shareholders if the company was overvalued and priced to perfection, but with a P/E of 10.85, it’s not out of line with other successful technology companies by any stretch of the imagination. Of course, a lot of the concern is simply that the company has grown as much as it can and that there are no more world’s to conquer. This is always and odd fear to me, but I suppose to some it matters. In other words, maybe Apple isn’t a growth stock anymore. And, to a certain kind of investor, the only stocks worth investing in are growth stocks. Apple Dividend Here …

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What Higher Apple Dividend Means for Investors

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I’m a huge fan of higher dividends. I’m less of a fan of share buybacks, but let’s get there in a minute. Apple Raises Dividend Theoretically, owning a stock means owning a part, or share, of a company. However, if you really break it down, being a shareholder means virtually nothing anymore. For example, in business classes around the country they will tell you that as a shareholder, one of your rights of ownership is voting for the company’s Board of Directors. That’s technically true, but these days, that means nothing. Only a certain number of seats are up for election at one time. Only the candidates that the company’s current management wants are on the ballot. In other words, even if you owned 51% of a company’s stock, your ability to vote would take years to actually affect the company. Your actual avenue for affecting any sort of change is the courts. If you don’t get to “own” the company, then what is your stock actually worth? Well, it is an item of limited supply that others believe have value. It’s the same way U.S. currency works, or Bitcoin. The exception is when a company pays a dividend. Then, …

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