It’s nice to be paid money—a dividend—to own a stock, but not all dividends are created equal. Some are safer than others. When a company cuts a dividend, the stock usually plummets. Not good. Think of dividend yield as an interest rate. The fictional company Flotsam, which makes Jetsam (in several delicious flavors), sells…
(Photo Credit: Charis Tsevis) Along with some major tech companies including Twitter (TWTR), LinkedIn (LNKD) and Yelp (YELP), Facebook (FB) will also report its FQ2 ’15 figures after the closing bell tomorrow. Year-to-date (YTD) Facebook’s stock has outperformed the NASDAQ with a capital return of 20.70% compared to the index which has appreciated by 6.41%. For the upcoming…
There are a number of great companies in the market today. By using the ModernGraham Valuation Model, I’ve selected the five highest dividend yields among the undervalued companies reviewed by ModernGraham. Each company has been determined to be suitable for Enterprising Investor according to the ModernGraham approach. This is a sample of one screen that is included…
Merck & Co. (MRK – Analyst Report) reported second quarter 2015 earnings of 86 cents per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 80 cents and increasing 1.2% from the year-ago period. Merck & Company Inc. – Earnings Surprise | FindTheBest Revenues for the quarter declined 10.5% to $9.785 billion but were above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of…
Question time: When’s the last time you saw a 13-week T-bill yield with a handle that wasn’t a zero? Need a clue? Think of the current occupant of the White House. Remember when he earned the lease? Yup, November 2008. It’s been seven miles of bad road for cash returns ever since. Income fund manufacturers have…
It would be best if you’ll click the chart and blow it up to its full size. It’s fairly huge and it’s fun to look at. This chart was produced last year in NFTRH as MACD was rounding into a topping situation. What I found interesting was that in the last two instances (Humps 1 & 2)…
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For the past week we’ve been up at Glacier National Park and the surrounding towns. We’ve been meaning to make our way up here for years and finally got to it this year. While we were on our flight the Reynold Creek Fire broke out in the eastern portion of the park and quickly escalated…
With this morning’s release of the May S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices were down fractionally month over month and rose across the country over the last 12 months but at a slower pace. The adjacent column chart illustrates the month-over-month change in the seasonally adjusted 20-city index, which tends to…
British energy giant, BP plc (BP – Analyst Report) reported second-quarter 2015 adjusted earnings of 43 cents per American Depositary Share (ADS) on a replacement cost basis, excluding non-operating items. The bottom line came below the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 55 cents and saw a drastic decline from the year-ago earnings of $1.18. BP’s total revenue was $61,800 million…
