"We are seeing quality names at fire-sale prices, and I think you must take advantage of that," says income expert Nilus Mattive in Dividend Superstars. Here's a trio of favorites.
"Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) recently reported great third-quarter results. The company tripled its profits from the same period a year ago. While last year's results were hurt by a one-time charge, Pfizer is obviously seeing continued demand for most of its drugs.
For me, today is a day of great optimism. I'm immensely relieved that Obama was elected President and I expect great things from him. In fact, I think his win could increase optimism about the future of America enough to give the economy a much-needed boost.
Years from now, historians may look back and see Obama's election as kicking off a new virtuous cycle where people feel more upbeat, so they buy a few more items, and businesses do a bit better and hire more and...
Okay, I'm getting ahead of myself here. But while pondering w...
I don't know what I was thinking when I turned and decided it was time to buy GE. I just figured that with so much money coming into support financials that GE would find the liquidity they need to keep GECC afloat. So far that just hasn't happened. Indeed the credit markets are still frozen and even the best companies out there cannot get short term credit. GE will probably survive ( a month ago I didn't think it would) but it will be a smaller and less profitable GE.
Both candidates in the upcoming election are bullish on Health IT spending as part of their healthcare reform proposals, with an estimated savings of $88B to the country over 10 years. However, details of these plans are lacking; although Obama's proposal would include a $50B investment in Health IT, divided evenly over a five-year period. The accompanying table presents an overview of the ETFI Global Health IT Index, which includes a total of 38 companies.
Trends in favor of Health IT include a push toward ele
We have finally reached a point where all denial is gone and we are ready to admit the error of our ways. Sure, there were plenty of folks ringing the alarm bells years ago, but universal acceptance of the fundamental economic calamity that faces us from every corner of the world, and every person with two cents to rub together, has just now ...
My colleague (sort of) James Cramer has suddenly turned into a giant, growling bear. He has been moving in that direction for a few months and now he thinks we all should go into hibernation for five years. He is so wrong!
First of all, it is never a good idea to make decisions while you are in panic mode. Second, Jim's guidance is moving with the market so he is not making any serious prognostication, ju
There is a lot of bad news affecting the stock market and prices are falling for some very important reasons. These include reduced expectations for earnings, higher unemployment, a lack of liquidity, a housing market that has not bottomed yet, federal spending gone wild, and the collapse of some venerable financial institutions to name a select few.
The market is bouncing around with every bit of news leaked from the Congress as well as company warnings and Federal reports. 'My pal Warren' is frequently being asked his opinion about the stock market and his 'stock answer' is that he ignores the overall market and its daily gyrations and focuses on individual investments and price (value).
Buffett drew plenty of attention this week when he invested $3 billion dollars in General Electric (NYSE: GE) preferred shares s...
How about that GE, what a beating it has taken. People are looking around and asking how low can we go, I don't know but the yeild should help GE from going much lower. The fundamentals are OK. I think people are a little more nervous,and maybe we should be but don't be foolish and give this stock away at this price. This is a buying time not a crying time. If GE delivers what it has promised this quarter we are going to have a nice return on our money by years end.
Summary: General Electric (GE) appears to be a good buy—for both price and dividend growth—at its current price of around $28.
Type of Company and Stock: GE is a conglomerate, and its participation in several very different industries makes it almost impossible to categorize into my usual Type A, B, or D classifications. If I had to pick, I'd call it an A-B company. Morningstar places GE in its Large Value style box, describes its industry as Diversified Industrial Materials, and its type as Classic Growth. As we will see, these categories do not begin to truly describe GE's breadth.
The following two-part article puts forth ten stock ideas that I believe would be better off in your investment portfolio than one comprised primarily of Certificates of Deposits (CDs) or bonds, or even government treasuries. This is not to say that these do not have value or offer some level of security, but they are long term losers.
A basket of high yielding-high quality stocks can offer a higher return
Earlier this week we looked at my top 5 high fliers for 2008. Unfortunately, for every up, there is a down and that is certainly true for my portfolio. As before, we will look at results through July 31, 2008. Here they are my cellar dwellers with comments: #5 - General Electric (GE) -19.3% Total 2008 Return Of my cellar dwellers, GE is the one I am most bullish on. I liked it at $38 when I bought my first tranche in July/2007, and liked it even more at $29 when I bought my last tranche this month.
The table above (click on image for full-screen view) presents a 53-stock NationCapShares exchange-traded fund [ETF] proposal that I have developed based on the proliferation and commercial success of single-country ETFs (e.g. iShares has over two dozen single-country ETFs with over $40 billion in net assets). The NationCaps Global Stock Index presented above includes the largest market cap company from each nation which must also be over $7 billion US Dollars in market cap and have a trailing 52-week stock price performance of greater than -25% in order to screen out the wea
Hey Guys I feel GE is under valve because of thier banking section, the news here is that geGE other section are doing well to strong. The yield is nice and in time the PE should in proveto better. Maybe not tomorrow but 6 or 8 months down the road stock holder should be rewarded. The big note is the banking is not as bad as some believe.
Wind power should account for 20% of U.S. energy needs within a decade – compared with virtually nothing now – as the country’s energy needs are increasingly taken care of by sources of alternative energy, former Texas oilman-turned-wind-power-entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens told Congress last week.
If it has leverage....Sell it
- The melt down seems to have begun. The Commercial paper market has totally frozen up. The freezing of the CP market has major ramifications. Only the...
Looking for the bottom?....Keep looking.
- Why you should own gold. Historically, Gold has been a safe haven in distressed times, during high inflation times, at times when there was distrust o...
Dividend Freez GE, HD, RY
- The following stocks have frozen their dividends at the current rate per share (yields as of 10/24/08):
General Electric Co. (GE) - 6.95%
C...
For me, today is a day of great optimism. I'm immensely relieved that Obama was elected President and I expect great things from him. In fact, I think his win could increase optimism about the future of America enough to give the economy a much-needed boost. 
We have finally reached a point where all denial is gone and we are ready to admit the error of our ways. Sure, there were plenty of folks ringing the alarm bells years ago, but universal acceptance of the fundamental economic calamity that faces us from every corner of the world, and every person with two cents to rub together, has just now ...
My colleague (sort of) James Cramer has suddenly turned into a giant, growling bear. He has been moving in that direction for a few months and now he thinks we all should go into hibernation for five years. He is so wrong! 
There is a lot of bad news affecting the stock market and prices are falling for some very important reasons. These include reduced expectations for earnings, higher unemployment, a lack of liquidity, a housing market that has not bottomed yet, federal spending gone wild, and the collapse of some venerable financial institutions to name a select few.
The market is bouncing around with every bit of news leaked from the Congress as well as company warnings and Federal reports. 'My pal Warren' is frequently being asked his opinion about the stock market and his 'stock answer' is that he ignores the overall market and its daily gyrations and focuses on individual investments and price (value).
The following two-part article puts forth ten stock ideas that I believe would be better off in your investment portfolio than one comprised primarily of Certificates of Deposits (CDs) or bonds, or even government treasuries. This is not to say that these do not have value or offer some level of security, but they are long term losers.
