7 Dividend Stocks to Prove Buy-and-Hold Isn't Dead [View article]
After decades of "Buy and Hold" of high quality, dividend-paying stocks, the past decade has taught me to "Buy, Hold, Sell (high), and Buy again", and this has worked much better.
4 Stocks for an Anticipated Industrial Recovery [View article]
A reasonable article and selection of stocks for the longer term. Your recommendation of buying CAT in the low 20's sounds good if it gets there again, perhaps in the wake of bad earnings or a dividend cut, as it is now around 30.
Your statement "..... As we can see, the Euro has virtually collapsed against the U.S. Dollar......" strikes me as odd, perhaps the product of a youthfully short time persepctive. When the Euro was created, it was designed to be equivalent to one dollar, and indeed there was a substantial period when a dollar bought you more than one Euro (briefly as much as 1.25 Euros). The Euro cannot be said to "have collapsed against the dollar" unless its value became substantially less than one dollar. What you really mean to say is " the dollar collapse against the Euro has been lessened".
Dividends or No Dividends, That Is the Question [View article]
In the 70's and 80's, dividends used to be the primary reason investors bought stocks, before growth mania took over as the era of the great bubbles developed. As the back-to-back bubbles started in the 90's, pundits began to deride dividends as antiquated and stodgy.
Now that investors have finally perceived that the bubble era was just an illusion of unsustainable valuations growth, dividends are back in vogue. When people find that a stock is still worth what they paid ten or fifteen years ago, the only thing they have to show for their investment is dividends.
In the post-bubble era, dividends are back to stay, and companies that don't pay them, or reduce them, will see their stock values fall.
S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats: Past, Present and Future [View article]
I had a position in KO for some years and was satisfied with the stock's performance. However, when it got to the mid-60's, I thought it was much too high and sold it and bought higher yielding stocks instead.
Part of my reasoning was that the novelty of people buying bottled water, instead of drinking it from a tap or fountain, will fade because (a) unnecessary spending in a recession,(b) articles in various media claimed that bottled water is no better than tap water, (c) uses lots of energy to make bottles and transport them, and (d) it was a silly fad anyway.
I confess I did not look into what percentage of KO profits came from selling water in bottles, but assumed it is significant as you see their water everywhere, and being more expensive than coke must be highly profitable.
7 Dividend Stocks to Prove Buy-and-Hold Isn't Dead [View article]
4 Stocks for an Anticipated Industrial Recovery [View article]
Your statement "..... As we can see, the Euro has virtually collapsed against the U.S. Dollar......" strikes me as odd, perhaps the product of a youthfully short time persepctive. When the Euro was created, it was designed to be equivalent to one dollar, and indeed there was a substantial period when a dollar bought you more than one Euro (briefly as much as 1.25 Euros). The Euro cannot be said to "have collapsed against the dollar" unless its value became substantially less than one dollar. What you really mean to say is " the dollar collapse against the Euro has been lessened".
Dividends or No Dividends, That Is the Question [View article]
Now that investors have finally perceived that the bubble era was just an illusion of unsustainable valuations growth, dividends are back in vogue. When people find that a stock is still worth what they paid ten or fifteen years ago, the only thing they have to show for their investment is dividends.
In the post-bubble era, dividends are back to stay, and companies that don't pay them, or reduce them, will see their stock values fall.
S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats: Past, Present and Future [View article]
Part of my reasoning was that the novelty of people buying bottled water, instead of drinking it from a tap or fountain, will fade because (a) unnecessary spending in a recession,(b) articles in various media claimed that bottled water is no better than tap water, (c) uses lots of energy to make bottles and transport them, and (d) it was a silly fad anyway.
I confess I did not look into what percentage of KO profits came from selling water in bottles, but assumed it is significant as you see their water everywhere, and being more expensive than coke must be highly profitable.