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15 Blue-Chip Dividend Growth Stocks: Love The Businesses Hate The Stocks

2021-05-24

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Blue-Chip Dividend Growth Stocks I love blue-chip dividend growth stocks that consistently grow their businesses and their dividends year after year.  However, as much as I love blue-chip dividend growth stocks, I simultaneously hate their stocks when they become overvalued.  With this video I am going to cover what I consider to be some of […]

Beware the Valuations of The Dividend Kings Fortress Portfolio

2019-07-24

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One of the great benefits for subscribing to The Dividend Kings service are the carefully-selected portfolios presented in our portfolio tracker.  However, I want to caution the subscriber that these portfolios should not be looked at as simply cut-and-paste investment options.  Instead, I believe our subscribers should understand that these portfolios are suggested research candidates […]

Demo 6 FAST Graphs FUN Graphs – Financial Underlying Numbers

2018-10-08

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FUN is an acronym for Financial Underlying Numbers. FUN Graphs are designed to empower premium subscribers the capability to quickly and efficiently engage in a comprehensive and deep dive into each company’s historical fundamental results.  There are 4 separate but comprehensive and powerful FUN graphing options available to premium subscribers.  Each of these graphing options […]

Why F.A.S.T. Graphs™ Reports Five Versions Of Earnings

2017-08-25

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F.A.S.T. Graphs displays five separate earnings mnemonics. These include: Adjusted (Operating) Earnings (Default mnemonic) Normalized Basic Tax-Adjusted Earnings Normalized Basic Earnings Basic Earnings Diluted Earnings (GAAP) Each one describes the underlying profitability of a company in a slightly different manner. Keep in mind that these metrics are often more similar than different, but they do […]

The Active versus Passive Performance Debate Is Nonsensical

2017-05-18

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Introduction One of the most hotly contested debates in finance is the argument over which is better – active or passive investing.  Moreover, this debate has spurred numerous academic studies that claim to identify whether passive outperforms active investing or vice versa.  As a result, the current popular opinion suggests that passive outperforms active investing […]

Happy 8th Birthday Bull Market! Has the S&P 500 Become Dangerously Overvalued?

2017-03-10

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Introduction According to an article in Quartz today, March 9, 2017, marks the 8th birthday of the US bull market which started on March 9, 2009.  According to the article, this is the 2nd longest and 4th strongest bull market in history for the S&P 500.  However, before we celebrate too excessively, we should pause […]

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