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Top 5 Health & Life Insurance Companies – A Rated or Better

Introduction Health and Life Insurance This is a highly requested subscriber request series on health and life insurance companies.  What I have done here is I have picked the top five life insurance companies and I’ve limited this particular video to only A rated companies or better.  I’m going to be looking at these one …

Why Record Corporate Debt Might Not Be So Bad

Introduction – Corporate Debt Since the Great Recession corporate America has been binging on corporate debt.  According to S&P Global over the last year, corporate debt maturing through 2024 that is rated by S&P Global Ratings increased by 3%, to $10.6 trillion.  As a result, according to an article in the website Common Dreams, corporate …

3M A True Dividend King for Current Yield and Dividend Growth

Introduction 3M (MMM) is a true Dividend King that has increased its dividend for 61 consecutive years. Perhaps an even more impressive dividend record is the fact that they have paid a dividend continuously for 104 years running since 1916. Furthermore, on May 12 they declared a dividend of $1.47 payable June 12, 2020 which …

Here’s A Growth Stock Story – II VI, Inc.

II VI Growth Story In light of what’s been going on with the pandemic I thought I might change things up a little bit with this video and show you kind of a growth stock story, and more than that, a company that’s had really tremendous momentum here in spite of what’s been going on …

Even After Covid-19 The Stock Market Is Not Cheap

Introduction Market of Stocks Not a Stock Market The stock market it not cheap. From January 31, 2020 through March 31, 2020 the stock market as measured by the S&P 500 fell approximately 20%.  As a result, I published an article on March 26, 2020 titled “It’s A Buyers’ Market – Choose Quality If You’re …

FAST Graphs Analyze out Loud Video Bristol-Myers Squibb

Introduction Many of you, if you follow Bristol-Myers Squibb, all know that they recently merged with Celgene and they’ve now become a much bigger company.  What’s been happening in big pharma, even the big names like Merck and Pfizer, these were very strong growth stocks years ago, but in more recent times their growth has …

4 Cheap Growth Stocks Worth Looking At

Introduction I’ve had several requests to cover cheap growth stocks, and in this video I will go over 4 interesting looking what I would call growth oriented stocks that I thought you might be interested in researching. In the following video I will go over Advanced Emissions Solutions (ADES), NMI Holdings (NMIH), Boot Barn Holdings …

NetApp: High-Quality Dividend Growth Stock

Introduction In today’s uncertain investing world, I believe it is extremely important to first and foremost focus on safety and quality.  Since my primary investment focus is now on dividends and dividend growth, safety to me is primarily about valuation along with dividend coverage and predictability.  Most long-term followers of mine know me as Mr. …

Lowe’s Companies Inc. FAST Graphs Analysis

Introduction Today I am going to take a look at Lowe’s through the lens of FAST Graphs. It’s a company that I’ve been really in love with for many, many years.  As many of you know me as Mr. Valuation, I tend to be very, very disciplined about valuation.  Lowe’s is a stock that I’ve …