Global stock, bond, oil and gold markets continue to bounce around as investors look for trends that signal a re-entry into stocks. Today, I'd like to review facts vs. fiction, in order to give us a little more peace as we live through stock...
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Today, I'm changing the rating on many Smart Investing stocks to Hold. These rating changes are only about share price. Other than Axiall, none of these stocks are experiencing earnings downgrades or corporate troubles. They are all undervalued growth stocks.
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How do you find growth companies that pay dividends? Using the Cabot resources, there are two excellent ways. One is to refer to Cabot Dividend Investor, which recommends three specific classes of stocks for its readers: High Yield, Dividend Growth and Income...
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Dividend investing is a hybrid strategy focused on generating income from your investments while also growing your wealth.
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The chances that the stock market will rise another 18% during the next 12 months or so are pretty good.
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A sure-fire method to find strong stocks is to ferret out high-quality stocks with low PEGnD ratio.
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Traditionally, investors thinking about retirement have invested in a mix of stocks and bonds to balance safety and growth.
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The markets are in an uptrend right now--the major indexes are all above their trailing 25- and 50-day moving averages.
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Dover Corp. (DOV) and Family Dollar Stores (FDO) are blue chip companies that currently sell at attractive prices.
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One of the benefits of being an income investor is that focusing on dividend-paying stocks automatically screens out companies without any revenues. Speculative starts ups, biotechs and other hopefulls simply don't have the cash to dole out to their investors. Dividends essentially act a..
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Many investors have a misperception that income investments are stodgy and slow-moving.
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Despite fears to the contrary (or perhaps because of them), 2010 has so far been a pretty good year for investors—especially the last few months. Stocks in a lot of sectors—retail, automobiles, banks—recovered from their recessionary lows, creating plenty of profits for smart But...
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