If you want to get paid monthly, you’ll probably struggle to find ways in the stock market. While real estate offers a straightforward path to collecting rent checks monthly, dividend investing is generally limited to paying shareholders on a quarterly schedule.
Some rare exceptions do exist, such as Realty Income, which is known as The Monthly Dividend Company.
When you tune into a Warren Buffett Annual Shareholder meeting, you’ll often hear the Oracle of Omaha reference See’s Candies, but few understand why this humble confectionary retailer holds such a special place in Buffett’s heart.
Back when Buffett bought See’s he had grand plans to be the candy mogul of the world.
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Smartsheet isn’t a company on the tip of most retail traders tongues but it might be soon. What started out as a spreadsheet with collaborative project management features has grown into a work management software worth $5.7 billion.
Better yet, it’s growing at a rapid rate and is sitting squarely in the middle of a market that is forecast to grow at 13.4% annually through 2026.
When Mark Minervini won the US Trading Championships, some attributed his victory to luck. As the years went by and he kept winning the narrative changed. Then he decided to enter the competition again, and naysayers told him not to risk his reputation. He went on to win once again, out-trading every other competitor and coming top of the podium in the $1 million+ category.
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George Soros had an old rule: invest first, investigate later. When a great opportunity seemed ripe for the picking, he would buy it, and figure out later if he was right.
It’s actually the opposite of what most funds do, which is to spend many months researching and dotting all their “i”s and crossing all their “t”s before patiently waiting for the price to get to the level they think is right.
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History may not repeat but it sure does rhyme and right now there are echoes of pandemic era euphoria. Roaring Kitty’s first tweet in 3 years led to Gamestop share price soaring. And now the public is giddy to know where the trader who turned tens of thousands into tens of millions is turning his attention next.
When Facebook first grew to prominence, a lot was made of how much attention per day Mark Zuckerberg’s company captured among users. It was common to see the average daily usage was close to a full hour per day per person.
Over time the scale of Facebook’s base proved astonishing. A full 1 billion users tapped into Facebook,
Speculation has been rife for some time about why Berkshire Hathaway requested special exemption from disclosure of a holding that most likely it has been building a position in.
Buffett knows as well as anyone that his holdings are carefully observed and many followers plough into them with abandon when revealed.
He also has admitted that so few purchases will move the needle for Berkshire now that it’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
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If you’ve been around the investing block a few times you know the old jokes about stocks falling the second you buy them. Peter Lynch, the legendary investor who averaged a 29.2% return from 1977 to 1990 doesn’t shy from plunging stocks like most others, though. Instead he embraces it and calls corrections for what they truly are.
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Five years ago when I last visited Saudi Arabia, the kingdom closely resembled the image many westerners might imagine.
First, it was challenging just to figure out how to get a visa. The answer lay in a dark room in a difficult-to-access New York building. Upon arrival, there was no such thing as socializing with women.
