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The increase in the stock prices of companies that have strong cash flow and high dividends almost certainly will continue as investors look for safe havens that pay investors an actual return....
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Jon OggNews that activist investor Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square is going after Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) has certainly rekindled interest in what was growing (or declining) into nothing more...
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Investors cannot make any money in the bond market right now merely by buying and holding Treasury bonds forever. The problem is that Treasury yields are at record lows. In some parts of the...
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AG Mortgage Investment Trust, Inc. (NYSE: MITT) could soon be much larger if its most recent shelf registration statement (S-3) with the Securities and Exchange Commission gets used to its fullest...
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There is good news for defensive consumer products and high dividend investors: change is likely coming in some form at Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG). The market value as of yesterday was a...
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The ongoing calls to bring change at Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG) are growing. The company’s shares have become stuck and many investors feel that the company has grown too large to be...
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Income investors need to be careful with some of the best companies in America. A dividend bubble appears to be forming in many great stocks. Dividends have been one of the great drivers of...
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The earnings warnings are spreading. Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) tried to masquerade a negative 2012 outlook update by hiking its dividend 25% to $0.50 per share per quarter. The engine-maker talked...
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When the market is stable or when shares are strong, many companies choose to unload shares to raise capital. It may hurt the shareholders today but these moves can help grow a company down the road...
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Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) has been one of those REITs we have loved for some time, but one where we feel the price has grown too excessive. Now the company which we call “The Landlord of...
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The world of the high-payout Master Limited Partnerships, or MLPs, has help up rather well against the drop in oil prices. That should be somewhat expected since these are generally not directly...
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Chinese solar panel maker JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd. (NASDAQ: JASO) this morning announced an ADS repurchase plan for up to $100 million by the end of September. The strangeness of this announcement...
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JP Morgan Alerian MLP Index ETN (AMEX: AMJ) is one of the most liquid instruments out there in the world of MLP investing, but another competing interest is a closed-end fund that employs some...
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Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) did manage to deliver on a dividend hike today. It is not very fun to claim, but the 20% hike creates a small analysis situation when you consider that Target wants to grow...
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Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE: CAT) has just done exactly what we expected with a dividend hike. We recently highlighted that it was one of only a few remaining DJIA stocks which will hike their dividends...
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