Introduction Nothing clears the palate of a diehard value investor better than a good old-fashioned bear market. In calendar year 2018 – and especially December 2018 – we were given what I would call a bear market. However, not all bear markets are the same. Sometimes bear markets occur because of a bad economic scenario …
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The Top 25 Best Dividend Challengers To Buy Today
This is the third and final article of a series of articles we have prepared on dividend paying stocks with a history and legacy of increasing their dividends each year. Our first article covered Dividend Champions, dividend paying stocks with a history of increasing the dividend every year for at least 25 years and can …
Ben Graham’s Stock Valuing Formula: It Really Works
Ben Graham’s famed formula for valuing a stock works in the real world! V* = EPS x (8.5 + 2g) Ten Real World examples of companies growing between zero and 5% These ten examples are based on our article: “A primer on valuation: Testing the Wisdom of Ben Graham’s Formula” (part one) published on 2/08/2011. …
Ten Prominent Defense Stocks That Pay Dividends, Part II
Introduction In Part I of this two-part series we pointed out how proposed spending cuts by Defense Secretary Robert Gates are designed to hold the growth of the $680 billion defense department budget to only 1% or 2% for the next few years. We further pointed out that these pending spending cuts were casting a …