Wednesday, April 24, 2024
For dividend investors, an excellent yield combined with regular dividend increases is the holy grail of wealth building. Dividend growth produces share price appreciation, so an income investment that grows dividends will almost certainly produce tremendous compounding annual total returns. Today, I want to show you my favorite ETF that does just that. In January […]
The mining sector’s largest company by market capitalization is BHP Group Ltd. (BHP). And, unlike its peers, this mining giant is growing by sticking to its proverbial knitting. BHP is using its healthy balance sheet both to buy smaller miners and to build organically, but the company has kept to well-traveled paths. This year’s $6 […]
The term goldilocks has begun to make the rounds in economic circles early this year, as unemployment remains low, interest rate cuts appear to be on the horizon, and companies are gearing up for a soft economic landing. And, as we move away from recession fears, it appears that oil could be bottoming out as […]
What can you do if you’re a biopharmaceutical company whose top-selling drug is seeing rapidly declining sales? You go on a buying spree—or at least, that’s what this top biotech is doing. Here’s why the results for shareholders are set to be fantastic. More than a third of AbbVie’s (ABBV) 2022 revenue came from Humira, […]
For dividend growth-focused investors, the 2020 coronavirus pandemic-triggered shutdown threw a monkey wrench into dividend income expectations. In response to the shutdown, companies stopped increasing dividends, cut dividend rates, or suspended dividends entirely. Four years after the shutdown, it’s time to see how dividend policies have changed… And where the next big dividend growth opportunities […]
Right after last week’s article was posted extolling the virtues of investing in one of the most geopolitically unstable regions in the world, I received the latest updates on global valuations. Turkey is still on the list of ultra-cheap stock markets. Turkey has a lot of risks, but with the market indexes trading with a […]
Last week in my 48-Hour Income service, we decided to avoid a trade in Spirit Airlines (SAVE). In 48-Hour Income, the goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. SAVE had really impressive put premiums that we were tempted to collect by selling […]
Much of the financial world has been waiting (for almost a decade) for the SEC to approve spot Bitcoin ETFs. On January 10, it finally happened. And now we have 11 exciting new ways to lose a bunch of money. Let me explain… A spot Bitcoin owns a portfolio of Bitcoins directly, and ETF investors […]
You may think with the AI boom this past year especially, that everything is going digital. Digital consulting, digital marketing, digital access, everyone wants to tout their digitalization. But, take a look around. What do you see every time you go out the house, to the mall, the grocery store, even just driving down the highway? […]
Merger and acquisition activity continues to sweep across the energy sector. In the latest deal, Chesapeake Energy (CHK) agreed to acquire rival Southwestern Energy (SWN) for about $7.4 billion, in an all-stock transaction that will create the largest natural gas producer in the U.S. The enterprise value of the newly combined company will be around […]
