Is This 8.6% Yield Too Good to Ignore?
If you’re the kind of investor who wants steady income, especially the kind that drops into your account every month like clockwork, the JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF (JEPI) is tough to ignore.
The headline number is eye-catching, an 8.6% trailing yield, paid monthly. That’s not just high, it’s more than four times the yield of the S&P 500 and well above what most high-grade corporate bonds are paying right now.
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Why Is Buffett Pouring Into This High Yield Bet
2024 has been a surprising year for Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway. The company became the first American business outside of the tech sector to achieve a $1 trillion valuation, and an unusually buoyant stock market has caused many of its holdings to gain substantially in value.
Despite these successes, Buffett personally appears to be turning bearish.
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When Will Walmart Join The Trillion Dollar Club?
At today’s $673 billion valuation, Walmart’s metrics track remarkably close to Microsoft’s pre-trillion phase, though through a distinctly retail-centric lens.
Where Microsoft achieved its milestone through software margins expanding from 28% to 35% over five years, Walmart charts its course through scale economics and business mix evolution, as evidenced by its operating margin expansion from 4.6% to 4.7% year-over-year.
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The Pet Care Powerhouse Flying Under Wall Street’s Radar
With the S&P 500 having advanced by about 23.7% year-to-date, deals among large-cap companies appear few and far between.
One stock that may be attractive, however, is Idexx Laboratories (NASDAQ:IDXX). This company specializes in veterinary diagnostic devices as well as poultry and livestock testing, among other animal-care essentials. Idexx also makes water testing supplies to monitor and maintain water quality.
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Is Coca-Cola The #1 Stock During the Next Market Meltdown?
The recent market rebound feels more like a shaky truce than a confident comeback. Sure, stocks have climbed back from bear territory since April, but between persistent inflation and rising geopolitical tensions (hello, Middle East), the whole thing still feels like a house of cards.
So what do you do if you’re worried the next leg down is coming?
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A Flying Bet on the Future of Urban Mobility
Instead of building Jetsons-style flying cars, Archer is focused on eVTOLs, electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
These battery-powered machines seat four passengers, can travel at speeds up to 150 miles per hour, and are designed to fly with less noise and turbulence than a traditional helicopter.
While they won’t end traffic jams on the ground,
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IBM’s Quantum Breakthrough Could Be a Turning Point
IBM has been tinkering with quantum computing longer than most of today’s retail investors have even been in the market. For decades, the company’s message has been quantum is coming, and when it arrives, it will change everything from chemistry to finance. The problem? The finish line has always felt just out of reach, perpetually ten years away.
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Why Buffett Thinks Most Investors Make It Too Complicated
Key Takeaways
- Warren Buffett’s key to investing is simple: own good businesses or index funds and hold them for the long term.
- Avoid trading in and out of positions.
- Costs, taxes, and churn are stealth portfolio killers.
Warren Buffett’s key to successful investing is deceivingly simple.
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