Investment Principles
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World – #5
Let’s take a deeper look into the first ETF WisdomTree Cloud Computing (WCLD). To give you context let’s jump into the exactly what this ETF is made of and look at its holdings. There are 52 individual companies that comprise this fund. ETF Style Objective Expense Ratio Return Yield Dividend Growth Economic Moat P/E Ratio […]
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World – #4
Continuing from the previous post (How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World #3) let’s check to see if my new investment strategy satisfies objectives #4 and #5: #4 -High performance by taking advantage of future growth industries via concentration, but still provide diversification against business risk From my research I selected two aggressive growth […]
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World – #3
Continuing on the question of diversification vs. concentration from my previous post… My dividend growth investing strategy for income, income growth and value using individual stocks put me clearly in the diversification camp, which reduces what’s called unsystematic risk or business risk. The other type of risk is systematic risk. Systematic risk affects the market […]
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World – #2
First I’m going to focus on the ‘What’ I plan on investing in going forward in this post pandemic world. Then I will cover the ‘How and When’ to invest. I’m not sure how many posts this will take, so let’s get started. First let me give you a little background. I am and have […]
Your Investment Survival Tool
In the old west your daily survival literally depended on the reliability and power of your most closely held tool – your rifle. In 1873 a new popular rifle was produced. Buffalo Bill called it “The Boss” but Winchester called it, simply, the new model of 1873. The “Winchester 73” was born. Its lever action that […]
Step 2 – Use the Best Source of Passive Income
This post is the second of a four step ‘Financial Freedom Kick-Starter Tutorial’ that I am working on. The objective is to provide everything you need to know to start your journey to financial freedom. What is Passive Income? According to Wikipedia: “Passive income is income resulting from cash flow received on a regular basis, […]
What does Trump, OPEC and the Fed have in common?
They are all market drivers that are currently causing major sector rotation. The various market sectors of the economy rotate in and out of favor throughout the business cycle. Here are some of my thoughts on the matter, I’m not 100% sure this is accurate and most likely not the whole picture, but this is […]
Latest Purchase Polaris Industries
In my last post on April 28 I mentioned that it looked like Polaris Industries (PII) had some near term support in the $96 range, which would help raise the dividend yield. At the time it was trading around $100 a share. Well yesterday (5/3/16) just 5 days later PII opened at $98.50 and pulled […]
10 New Dividend Growth Stocks Worth Watching
After recently looking over the the list of 50 Dividend Aristocrats. I decided to look over all companies that have raised their dividends for 17 or more years in search for companies that I’m not already watching that would make good dividend growth stocks. Companies that I would be willing to purchase at the right […]
Watchlist Tips & Tricks
Tip #1 At the bottom of the Watchlist there are four tabs that you can click on to sort the Watchlist by, they are Yield (the default screen), Dividend Growth rate, % Fair Value, and Quality Score. These are four important qualities to begin your search when looking to purchase a dividend growth stock. I […]