The Pandemic Creates a High-Yielding Superstar
It’s time to look beyond the market disruptions and personal nuisances caused by this pandemic. It will go away sooner or later, and headlines will obsess with something else. But the ordeal of the lockdown and virus may to...
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Any income investor should know how to reinvest dividends. Whether you should depends on what you're looking for as an income investor.
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Dividend reinvestment is one of income investors' most powerful weapons, and DRIP plans are the best way to do it. But DRIPs do have their drawbacks.
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A Cheap Price and a Safe, High-Yield
These are humbling times for market prognosticators. Who saw the coronavirus coming? Who saw the market surging 47% from the lows in late March?
The last several months have beautifully exemplified why no one can predict the market the...
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Maybe Too Far Too Fast
Don’t look now but we are in the midst of a huge rally, and technically a bull market. The S&P 500 has soared more than 30% from the lows of March 23rd in just 50 days. The index is down...
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What is a Dividend Reinvestment Plan? Dividend Reinvestment Plans, Otherwise Known as "DRIPs", Are a Great Way for Income Investors to Build Long-Lasting Wealth.
Investors looking to build long-lasting wealth are usually the first to ask, "what is a Dividend Reinvestment Plan?" Offered by dividend...
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Hope for the Bull But Prepare for the Bear
Are you having any fun yet? I’ll say one thing about this market—it’s not boring.
After plunging nearly 34% from the high at all-time-record speed, the market has staged an epic rally. The S&P 500 has more...
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At the Mercy of the Virus
I’ve never seen anything like it. A virus has taken a powerful bull market from all-time highs to the cusp of a bear market (down 20% from the high) in a matter of weeks.
There wasn’t much market reaction all...
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A Perfect Answer for a Precarious Market
Here we are at a brand new all-time high for the market. Stocks shrugged off impeachment and are now whistling past the coronavirus. These are mere speed bumps for a market that seems destined to forge ever has...
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This long-term investment strategy relies heavily on dividends and is one of the best investments for kids. Here's how it works.
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Special dividends are like surprise money for shareholders, though you can also seek out companies that are about to pay them. Here's how they work.
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A Jewel among the Wreckage
This is one tough stock picking environment. It’s obscenely late in the bull market and economic recovery with the market near an all time record high. Sure, a similar situation has existed for several years. Okay, the economy is pretty...
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The best DRIPs are the kind of safe, long-term income stocks you want to give your grandchildren for Christmas. Here are three that I like.
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A Great Way to Play the Growing Marijuana Industry
We are standing on the precipice of a New Year and a new decade. In a way it’s just an arbitrary date on the calendar. But new beginnings hold great promise and are an ideal to...
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An Amazing Opportunity from the 5G Revolution
The world is about to change in a major way. So much so that you may look back ten years or even five years from now and realize how profoundly different things are since 2019.
Identifying change is to...
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This High Priced Market Still Offers Great Value
Here we are with the market at fresh new all-time highs. It’s already the longest running recovery and bull market in history. Meanwhile, the global economy stinks and might be getting worse and we are on precipice...
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The shares of this global pharmaceutical company were just upgraded to ‘Buy’ at Citigroup.
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Profit from the American Energy Export Boom
One of the constants in life is change. The winds of change seem to swoop in and disrupt things we mistakenly consider permanent. Understanding exactly when and where such events occur is crucial to successful investing.
One such change...
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Defense is the Best Offer
Here we are in the tenth year of an economic recovery and bull market. All recoveries end in recession and all bull markets end in bear markets. Both have already well exceeded the average historical life spans. In fact, is...
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The Dog Days of Summer
We are in the dog days of summer, the hottest, most sultry days of the year. The expression “dog days” is an old one. In fact, it’s really old. The Romans used it.
It’s one of those expressions that everyone but...
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