Introduction Pharma & Biotech Subscriber Request Series: 5 Biotechnology (biotech) and 2 Pharmaceutical (pharma) Companies on sale. Each Tuesday I cover stocks that have been requested from our channel’s YouTube subscribers. This week I covered pharmaceutical giant Merck (MRK) and the much smaller company in transition Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA). In the biotechnology subindustry I covered …
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Answering the Question: When to Sell a Stock-Part 1A
Introduction I’m going to start this article with the same opening statement that I utilized in two previous articles I wrote on knowing when to sell a stock. The most common complaint that I have heard from investors over my 49+ years in the financial services industry is as follows: “Everyone wants to tell me …
A Comprehensive Look At Dividend Growth Stock Valuations Sector By Sector: Part 2
Introduction Finding attractively valued dividend growth stocks is getting harder and harder to do. The overall market has been on a relentless advance for many years now, and high quality dividend paying growth stocks have been leaders. Consequently, valuations have become extended beyond historical norms and I contend prudence. Nevertheless, there are attractive dividend growth …
Invest In Stocks With A Margin of Safety To Reduce Risk And Enhance Returns
Introduction Of all of the many sound investing principles that legendary teacher and investor Ben Graham put forward, he believed that his concept of “margin of safety” was the most important of all. This investment lesson was so deeply ingrained into the mind of Ben Graham’s most famous student, Warren Buffett, that he created his …
A True Investor’s Most Important Performance Measurement
Although most people either fail to realize it, or simply refused to accept it, every stock portfolio has two separate and distinct performances. The first, and in my opinion, the least important, is stock price movement. If you buy a stock at $10 a share and it goes to $15 a share it’s a good …
42 Dividend Contenders for Above-Average Total Return
With interest rates hovering near all-time lows, investors needing income are faced with very limited choices. The traditional high yield available from bonds and other fixed income vehicles are no longer available to meet the needs of retirees needing income to live off. Moreover, it is almost a certainty that today’s low yields are not …
Dividend Champions a Rare Undervalued Opportunity
We believe that based on earnings, 2012 is starting out with the stock market undervalued. We believe in the long-term ownership of great businesses purchased at sound and attractive valuations. Consequently, we view the stock market as merely the store that we shop at in order to buy the businesses we want to own. Furthermore, …