Introduction To find the best stocks to invest in, there are more than 19,000 stocks to pick from in the US and Canadian markets alone. Consequently, how is the individual self-directed investor able to find the best stocks to meet their goals objectives and risk tolerances? Finally, there is a way that you can easily …
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Amgen: Are Its Golden Days Over? | FAST Graphs
By James Long Video by Chuck Carnevale and Colton Carnevale Amgen Business Introduction According to Amgen (AMGN) 2022 10K, “Amgen focuses on areas of high unmet medical need and leverages its expertise to strive for solutions that improve health outcomes and dramatically improve people’s lives. A biotechnology pioneer, Amgen has grown to be one of the …
Building a Dividend Growth Portfolio To Meet Your Unique Needs
Dividend Growth Portfolio I am on record of often pointing out that it is a market of stocks and not a stock market. The same concept applies to individual investors. It is a market of investors, not an investor’s market. In short, this is a fancy way of saying that just like stocks, not all …
Dogs of the DOW: Lessons on Valuation And Dividend Growth | FAST Graphs
Dogs of the Dow Each year financial news services such as the Wall Street Journal and others like to talk about the strategy known as Dogs of the Dow. This is a popular and established strategy involving buying the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yields of the 30 Dow components at the first of …
Clorox (CLX) and Church & Dwight (CHD) versus Amgen (AMGN) and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY)
4 Sagging Dividend Growth Stocks 2 Are Buys 2 Are Not Clorox, Church & Dwight, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Many high-quality dividend growth stocks have recently experienced substantial drops in their prices. When the price of a common stock drops, investors will almost assuredly ask me if I like it better now. In fact, it is one …
Diversifying by Sector: 20 High-Quality Attractive Dividend Growth Stocks Rated A- Or Better (Part 2B)
Introduction This current series of articles could be summarized as a review of ways to construct and diversify a common stock portfolio. In part 1 found here I discussed various viewpoints on how many stocks a portfolio should hold. In Part 2A found here I presented and discussed Peter Lynch’s 6 general categories of stocks. In …
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 …
5 Attractive Biotechnology Stocks for Healthy Long-term Returns
Introduction I am a fervent believer that investors are best served by investing towards a specific investment objective that suits their own unique goals, objectives and risk tolerance. In other words, investing is not always trying to get the highest possible total returns. If that were true, no one would have ever invested in bonds, …
Amgen’s Dividend Policy Has Ignited Their Stock
Founded in 1980, Amgen (AMGN) is the world’s largest biotechnology company with a current market cap of just under $68 billion. However, in spite of its already large size, we believe that Amgen has ample room to continue growing their earnings at above-average rates into the foreseeable future. Our optimism for future growth is predicated …