Not all dividends are cut from the same cloth. If you’re going to buy a high dividend-yielding stock, top of the list of questions to ask is how sustainable is the dividend? Is it safe? Or will it be slashed?
Investment Alert: Buy Cenovus Energy (CVE) Under $15.30/share
There is a reason Stanley Druckenmiller did not have a down year in the 30 years he managed money. And it’s the same reason he generated returns north of 30% annually on average. He is really, really good at…
Investment Alert: Buy Lending Club (LC)
Like other lenders. Lending Club is susceptible to credit and interest rate risk. But the share price has fallen to the point that the cash on its balance sheet now…
In 2018, Tesla share price spent most of the year hovering around the $500 level. Cathie Wood made a bold prediction then that Elon Musk’s car manufacturer would reach $4,000 per share, implying a trillion dollar market capitalization.
It seemed preposterous. The only companies that flirted with such a market cap were Microsoft,
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I like a good dividend as much as the next investor but, after you’re been around the block for a while, you learn to be a bit skeptical of sky-high dividends.
When a company pays a dividend of…
When Tesla shares were priced in the thousands of dollars, it didn’t take long before a stock split was authorized. So too, the same happened at Apple and Alphabet. But one company…
It’s no surprise that the top position in Bill Gates’ portfolio is Microsoft. As co-founder and former CEO, he led Microsoft to enormous success and the current CEO, Satya Nadella, picked up the baton and added hundreds of billions of more value to the firm when he transformed it to a cloud-focused business.
Over this past weekend news came out that JP Morgan had acquired “a substantial majority of assets” and all deposits of First Republic Bank.
The second largest bank failure in US history had threatened to cause a contagion that would spread like wildfire throughout the banking system but Papa Jamie Dimon came to the rescue with the proverbial firehose.
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Seasonal trends in the stock market are powerful. From the January Effect and The Santa Claus Rally to The Halloween Effect and perhaps the most famous of all Sell in May and Stay Away (until Labor Day). But can these seasonal trends really be trusted?
