McDonald's: The Highest Yielding Of The Iconic American Brands [View article]
Martinfrosa, Foreign cars are not made in America! You can build a plant in rural Ohio (Honda) or rural Kentucky (Toyota) or rural South Carolina (BMW), get full property tax exemption, pay the American autoworker $16/hour and limited benefits, and get the consumer to believe its MADE in America all you want - profits go overseas. There is a HUGE tariff for assembled cars brought into this country - the answer why foreign cars are even assembled here in the first place. Add no property tax payments on the large factory, cheap wages, and monopoly over the rural small town - makes for even juicer profits for these overseas automakers.
McDonald's: The Highest Yielding Of The Iconic American Brands [View article]
cpa28761, My name is JEFF STALLMAN, I live in America and $upport America and its citizens!
Born in generation X, I have only bought and driven GM made auto's - very proud of it too. Take it a little deeper to make my point clear - My current car was built by Texans, wife's built in Saginaw Detroit! Yea I'm sure more than a few components came from China or Korea, but the PROFITS stay in America to create JOBS!
P.S.. China accounts for nearly 60% of GM auto sales, they must know something YOU don't about cars! Support the buyers of your products! You keep driving that Japanese car, maybe they will support you by giving you a job, uh huh!
A Classic Comeback Story: The Bullish Case For General Motors [View article]
Andrew - great article with a nice personal experience. Because GM doesn't offer a dividend yet, I did not notice its 52 week low. It's on my radar either way right now.
To answer Mr. White, one major reason GM filed BK was to break its union obligation and offload the medical and dental portion of its retirement benefits package. This was costing GM nearly $2500-$3000/car. Japanese car makers don't care about its US autoworkers and don't offer any retirement package other than 401k. GM, to compete with the Japanese, no longer offers its retiree's benefits. The pension amounts to penny's on the dollar and at age 62, they require all pensioners to take social security and subtract it from GM's obligation. They are currently offloading the remaining retiree's pensions by offering a lump sum or buying an annuity to cover it, thus eliminating the entire benefits from the table ----- THUS GM can now compete on an even playing field with the Japanese. Sad what the American consumer has done to itself and all those jobs!
Funny, China accounts for about 60% of GM sales today... Maybe the Chinese now something about American made vehicles that we American's seem to forget ----i.e. they need to support Americans to keep buying Chinese stuff and vice versa.... hmmmm, is that called a trade balance? Something the Japanese failed to ever accomplish, our politicians don't care about, and the American consumer wasn't worried about until they needed a good paying job!
McDonald's: The Highest Yielding Of The Iconic American Brands [View article]
Ranch, nice article.
MCD sells KO products - showing KO needs MCD to make it's model work. I've read more than once that MCD can continue paying and growing its dividend forever just on the franchise fees they make.
Note: I'm a buy American guy all the way. We shouldn't bash only Nike for going overseas for cheap labor and I'm certainly not condoning it either. Many American icon's have not only gone overseas for cheaper labor and materials, but for growth in sales, i.e. MCD & KO. We throw tomatoes at them for doing it, but then look in your garage, is your car made in America, look at your shoes, were they made in America, look at your clothes, were they made in America, Toys your kids play with, etc. American consumers have forced the icon's to do what they did to stay in business and compete --- and continue paying dividends. Time to point the finger at the American Consumer and not the companies! We are in total control of were stuff is made and comes from.
REITs With Modest Leverage: Separating The Best From The Rest [View article]
Brad, nice piece today. I'm sure if you were asked, most of your list is at 52 week highs and better entry points with increased yields will be available to patient investors for these great REITS.
2 REIT Dividend Machines Hit New 52-Week Highs This Week [View article]
Brad, nice article and you are by far my favorite author in the REIT space. To many authors focus on NLY and mortgage related trusts in this space. Their dividends are way to inconsistant as the landlord related REITS you write about!
I like that fact you offered an earlier commenter entry points for both O & OHI . I agree, the market has run these two up a bit and better entry points will come for the patient investor.
OHI is especially volatile as Obamocare news is a big driver on this one recently. Last year, OHI crashed (over 25% from high) over Medicare cutting reimbursement benefits to long term care operators and landlords that rent to them. The stock recovered, - I guess scared investors soon realized people would not be moving in with their relatives instead of staying at OHI rented facilities...
I'm long on OHI, and love it's volatility for better entry points when making new investments. This Dividend investor hates stocks that go up in price on a straight line.
Dividend Growth Investing: Reflections On What I've Learned, Part 2 [View article]
Bob, your personal touch to writing makes it much more enjoyable to read.
I love this quote at the end: "Remember, you haven't had to sell a single stock and your family got a raise in income." This should be every DG investors fight song and every capital gain traders nightmare!
Sell This Dividend Blimp Right Now: Requiem For A Philip Morris [View article]
richjoy403, shhhh, we agree on something, although I'm more than sure your Y.O.C. on PM makes you smile too and the shares are not going sideways in this example :)
U.S. Financial Services Stocks: Just Say No [View article]
AgAuMoney, not going to disagree with your comment.
Funny you should mention AT&T, they had become a monopoly back in 1984, better known as Ma Bell, pretty much controlled everything telephone. In 1984, Justice dept came in and broke it up into separate components.
The financial services cases they are being allowed to combine sectors to become to big to fail, whereas AT&T and Oil pretty much stick to what they know ----- As a side note, I'm all for small business ownership getting a fair shake, especially in this economy AND government regulation is crushing financial services "small business" ownership. It wasn't small business that blew up in 2008, it was the big banks being allowed to do what they did to compete, small business just fed the big banks to stay alive.
Yield On Cost Vs. 4% For Your Retirement Income Stream [View article]
Smarty_pants, Either way, if you add a share price increase in calculator OR not, one that invests in quality DG stocks, reinvests the dividends, and is patient will win - win... If share price were to increase proportionately over time, based on JNJ history, we most likely will see another 2/1 split or two!
AND if I'm wrong....
If Joe Saver ends up with $1,000,000 share price gains and no splits and only $32,000 annual income in 32 years OR $275,000 and $53,000, thank god he read this article and TRIED!
Building An Intelligent REIT Portfolio With 'Wide Moat' Revenue Streams [View article]
I will, I just checked out HTA, very new stock, pays its first ex div next week too! And better yet still priced close to its initial offering, makes for an interesting "young" play. With your knowledge, you should consider an article on HTA, its dividends are just ramping up and could really play out strong for those "early" investors that like newborns!
Building An Intelligent REIT Portfolio With 'Wide Moat' Revenue Streams [View article]
Thanks Brad, Your answers to my questions would make for another interesting REIT article for you - stuff I and others most likely didn't know about, this knowledge is what brings me to SA daily! HTA, hmmm, as I moved from Phoenix, AZ last year- I'm putting it on my watch list for investigation - thanks!!!!
Dividend Growth Investing: Reflections On What I've Learned [View article]
Bob, one question - what do you weigh your individual stocks by? I either misunderstood or missed it. I weigh my stocks on "dividend income" - no more than 5% per a stock or it's overweight.
P.s. I love the fact how you spread your money out over 50 stocks! Your now a full fledged Equity Income Mutual Fund manager :)
McDonald's: The Highest Yielding Of The Iconic American Brands [View article]
Foreign cars are not made in America! You can build a plant in rural Ohio (Honda) or rural Kentucky (Toyota) or rural South Carolina (BMW), get full property tax exemption, pay the American autoworker $16/hour and limited benefits, and get the consumer to believe its MADE in America all you want - profits go overseas. There is a HUGE tariff for assembled cars brought into this country - the answer why foreign cars are even assembled here in the first place. Add no property tax payments on the large factory, cheap wages, and monopoly over the rural small town - makes for even juicer profits for these overseas automakers.
McDonald's: The Highest Yielding Of The Iconic American Brands [View article]
My name is JEFF STALLMAN, I live in America and $upport America and its citizens!
Born in generation X, I have only bought and driven GM made auto's - very proud of it too. Take it a little deeper to make my point clear - My current car was built by Texans, wife's built in Saginaw Detroit! Yea I'm sure more than a few components came from China or Korea, but the PROFITS stay in America to create JOBS!
P.S.. China accounts for nearly 60% of GM auto sales, they must know something YOU don't about cars! Support the buyers of your products! You keep driving that Japanese car, maybe they will support you by giving you a job, uh huh!
A Classic Comeback Story: The Bullish Case For General Motors [View article]
To answer Mr. White, one major reason GM filed BK was to break its union obligation and offload the medical and dental portion of its retirement benefits package. This was costing GM nearly $2500-$3000/car. Japanese car makers don't care about its US autoworkers and don't offer any retirement package other than 401k. GM, to compete with the Japanese, no longer offers its retiree's benefits. The pension amounts to penny's on the dollar and at age 62, they require all pensioners to take social security and subtract it from GM's obligation. They are currently offloading the remaining retiree's pensions by offering a lump sum or buying an annuity to cover it, thus eliminating the entire benefits from the table ----- THUS GM can now compete on an even playing field with the Japanese. Sad what the American consumer has done to itself and all those jobs!
Funny, China accounts for about 60% of GM sales today... Maybe the Chinese now something about American made vehicles that we American's seem to forget ----i.e. they need to support Americans to keep buying Chinese stuff and vice versa.... hmmmm, is that called a trade balance? Something the Japanese failed to ever accomplish, our politicians don't care about, and the American consumer wasn't worried about until they needed a good paying job!
McDonald's: The Highest Yielding Of The Iconic American Brands [View article]
MCD sells KO products - showing KO needs MCD to make it's model work. I've read more than once that MCD can continue paying and growing its dividend forever just on the franchise fees they make.
Note: I'm a buy American guy all the way. We shouldn't bash only Nike for going overseas for cheap labor and I'm certainly not condoning it either. Many American icon's have not only gone overseas for cheaper labor and materials, but for growth in sales, i.e. MCD & KO. We throw tomatoes at them for doing it, but then look in your garage, is your car made in America, look at your shoes, were they made in America, look at your clothes, were they made in America, Toys your kids play with, etc. American consumers have forced the icon's to do what they did to stay in business and compete --- and continue paying dividends. Time to point the finger at the American Consumer and not the companies! We are in total control of were stuff is made and comes from.
REITs With Modest Leverage: Separating The Best From The Rest [View article]
2 REIT Dividend Machines Hit New 52-Week Highs This Week [View article]
I like that fact you offered an earlier commenter entry points for both O & OHI . I agree, the market has run these two up a bit and better entry points will come for the patient investor.
OHI is especially volatile as Obamocare news is a big driver on this one recently. Last year, OHI crashed (over 25% from high) over Medicare cutting reimbursement benefits to long term care operators and landlords that rent to them. The stock recovered, - I guess scared investors soon realized people would not be moving in with their relatives instead of staying at OHI rented facilities...
I'm long on OHI, and love it's volatility for better entry points when making new investments. This Dividend investor hates stocks that go up in price on a straight line.
Dividend Growth Investing: Reflections On What I've Learned, Part 2 [View article]
I love this quote at the end: "Remember, you haven't had to sell a single stock and your family got a raise in income." This should be every DG investors fight song and every capital gain traders nightmare!
Building A Do-It-Yourself Dividend Portfolio: Critical Rules To Follow (Part 3) [View article]
Look forward to checking out your new website on 7/1 and getting your investment letters via email!
Jeff
Building A Do-It-Yourself Dividend Portfolio: Critical Rules To Follow (Part 2) [View article]
Sell This Dividend Blimp Right Now: Requiem For A Philip Morris [View article]
U.S. Financial Services Stocks: Just Say No [View article]
Funny you should mention AT&T, they had become a monopoly back in 1984, better known as Ma Bell, pretty much controlled everything telephone. In 1984, Justice dept came in and broke it up into separate components.
The financial services cases they are being allowed to combine sectors to become to big to fail, whereas AT&T and Oil pretty much stick to what they know ----- As a side note, I'm all for small business ownership getting a fair shake, especially in this economy AND government regulation is crushing financial services "small business" ownership. It wasn't small business that blew up in 2008, it was the big banks being allowed to do what they did to compete, small business just fed the big banks to stay alive.
Yield On Cost Vs. 4% For Your Retirement Income Stream [View article]
Either way, if you add a share price increase in calculator OR not, one that invests in quality DG stocks, reinvests the dividends, and is patient will win - win... If share price were to increase proportionately over time, based on JNJ history, we most likely will see another 2/1 split or two!
AND if I'm wrong....
If Joe Saver ends up with $1,000,000 share price gains and no splits and only $32,000 annual income in 32 years OR $275,000 and $53,000, thank god he read this article and TRIED!
Building An Intelligent REIT Portfolio With 'Wide Moat' Revenue Streams [View article]
Building An Intelligent REIT Portfolio With 'Wide Moat' Revenue Streams [View article]
Dividend Growth Investing: Reflections On What I've Learned [View article]
P.s.
I love the fact how you spread your money out over 50 stocks! Your now a full fledged Equity Income Mutual Fund manager :)