In short, the reason I don’t like value investing is that value investors spend all of their time talking about when to buy and not much time is spent discussing when to sell. I say this as someone that does value investing from time-to-time, ha. Value investors repeat things like buy and hold, or buy…
Price to Cash Flow, sometimes written as P/CF, is one of my favorite metrics for weeding through stocks. Price to Cash Flow is basically the price divided by the operating cash flow. Another screen I often do is Return on Equity because it helps measure how efficient management is. All of these stocks had a…
A look at the AVUV Small Cap ETF I first heard about the Avantis US small cap value ETF over on the boglehead forum. Many investors are using this ETF to tilt their portfolio towards small cap value. Why? Because there’s past evidence of small cap value outperforming the TOTAL MARKET over the long-term. However,…
Five months ago I began back testing some portfolios. After looking at the results, I began tilting my portfolio towards Mid-Cap Value using the IJJ ETF. Mid-Cap Value stocks can under perform on the short-term, but have a history of outperforming on the long-term (more than 10 years). Given what the stock market has done…
Value stock picks for 2022 As we move into the new year, I’m focusing on cashflow, dividends and value to choose stocks. My most recent stock picks include Traveler’s Insurance Cigna Health Walgreens All three pay a dividend and have a history of increasing their dividend. In particular, Cigna recently raised their dividend a whopping…
Here are my DIVIDENDS for the month of May. If you’d like to compare to last month, here you go: First up is my BROKERAGE account, here they are: Putnam Municipal Income Closed End Fund paid me 0.13 cents. Ha, if you haven’t seen my post before, I bought into this over a year ago…
Here are my DIVIDENDS for the month of April: 1)Macy’s-I sold out of Macy’s a while back but for some reason I’m still getting dividends. Hey no arguments. Macy’s paid me $4.53 2)Eastman Chemicals paid me $33.00 3)Schneider Trucking paid me .91 cents 4)QQQ $1.45 So as you can see not a WHOLE LOT in…
I will preface this article by stating I do a good bit of “Dividend Investing.” At the same time, it is not all I do. One common argument by dividend investors is that by focusing on Dividends, you are more protected during a market correction, recession or bear market. How has that technique faired in…
Stocks to Fight the Coronavirus Crash Lots of crazy happenings here in the world due to this Global Pandemic. Here in Atlanta, GA most businesses are closed, some cities even have curfews. People are rushing to stock up on essentials such as food, toilet paper, and hand sanitizer. On the other hand, traffic at our…
While I said I was working on REDUCING positions, I managed to INCREASE positions. I guess the deals got too good. I started a small position in HOME DEPOT. I do feel it can go a little lower here but Home Depot will be fine long-term and I thought it was a good chance to…
Stock market during C19 The Coronavirus continues to tear through the world. The stock market briefly entered bear market territory yesterday; however, after Trump’s National emergency speech, it flew up over 9%. This was all during the last twenty mins of today’s market. Wowzers, who would have thought. What stocks have I recently bought? I…
Ok, it is that time again. Time to look at my dividend returns for the month. Let me start off by saying I got 33.9% more dividend income this quarter than I did 3 quarters ago (same companies reporting). I went from $76. 32 to $102.19; I’m certainly pleased. Here are the six sources of…
I recently began supercharging my portfolio with more growth and tech stocks. Fortinet had an earnings report today. How did it do? Fortinet beat earnings and revenue. A 21% increase in revenue year over year here. Earnings of .76 vs. .59 from this quarter a year ago. So, that is looking pretty awesome here. Gross…
Okay, it’s that time again. My January Dividend Report along with some notes on Dividends: Brokerage Account AEO $22.96 PMM (Putnam Municipal CEF) $7.36 SNDR $3.30 Macy’s $4.53 Eastman Chemicals $33 Quest Diagnostics $4.08 Leggett and Platt $14 Total = $89.23. If we look at three months back ago (same companies last report) we see…
As you can see above, the price has run away from the earnings. Oddly enough, back in Q1 of 2019 we saw the opposite, EPS ran away from the share price. It’s like Apple stock is lagging it’s earnings a couple of quarters. Q1 it was undervalued and now overvalued on an earnings perspective. 4.14%…