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- Big Lots, Wal-Mart and Costco: 3 Musketeers of the Pooring of America [view article]
- Starbucks Tells Walmart:: "Here, You Take Them." [view article]
- Jason Busch on Wal-Mart's Sustainability: (Still) Missing the Point [view article]
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- Wal-Mart Keeps Growing Globally [view article]
- New Lows For the Dow [view article]
- Wal-Mart's Expands $4 Drug List, Puts Pressure on Drug Store Chains [view article]
- Retailers' Online Strategy a More Important Rating Factor - Moody's [view article]
- Deere Is No Bambi - Cramer's Lightning Round (6/20/08) [view article]
- Wal-Mart's Prescription Drug Plan Could Impact Entire U.S. Health Care System [view article]
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- Big Lots, Wal-Mart and Costco: 3 Musketeers of the Pooring of America
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- Starbucks Tells Walmart:: "Here, You Take Them."
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- New Lows For the Dow
- Jason Busch on Wal-Mart's Sustainability: (Still) Missing the Point
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Wal-Mart vs. Target [view article]
I shop WAL MART.....LUCKILY it is placed about a mile from my million dollar home(whcih flucuates like all California real estate). We also have a LONGS DRUGSTORE which is very nice to have.WALMART has everything that my wife needs IMMEDIATELY on SATURDAY. IT MAKES MY DAY WORK BETTER. IT IS SOMETHING LIKE COSTCO -a warehouse and people are reasonably friendly. I do not know why so many people attack WALMART.
My Mom worked in a 5 and 10 cent store and barely bought food for us in the 50's. These WALMART employees are lucky for what this company provides. Life is hard and when a Harvard Law School Graduate looks at minimum wage it is easy to be a critic and write a book about evil and make ROYALITIES from promotions by elite mega media anchorpeople.
My wife shops at WALMART when she has time from putting out fires in the corporation she works for. The plants are great, hardware is stocked, cleaning supplies are stocked...more food is there...some electronics and clothes. My wife buys plants and garden supplies,Roses, trees and patio chairs, tables. We mix them into the teak furniture also in our yard.
Thank you WALMART!!!!When this recession really hits you will be even more important.
Diego
Southern California
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Will Wal-Mart's Drug Price Cuts Affect Other Pharmacies? [view article]
Three cheers for Wal-Mart. And now they've started selling 3 months of those generics for $10. Wow! For my other meds that aren't generic I use the prescription discount card that I found at rxdrugcard.com. Low membership fee. Drug prices posted to check before you join. ReplyDoes Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
The dividend discussion is critical here since many of these companies work hard to raise dividends every year. A $1,000 investment in something like GE isn't just going to give you 4% for the next 10 years. That dividend is going to grow, year after year and after 10 years the yield is likely to be the equivelent of 10% based on your original investment. When you compound that with dividend re-investment, you're looking at safe investments that hold the potential of building a rather nice nest egg without a lot of trading fees or volitility. While I understand the appeal of picking nothing but fast moving winners, it's a riskier game with as many winners as losers. I believe a well diversified portfolio should contain both blue chips that are buy and hold investments (with dividend reinvestment, of course) and small caps with explosive growth. However, if you're not the type of have the patience and discipline to watch the small caps, then for gawd's sake, stay away from them. Reply5
Inflation: No Longer a Notion to Be Ignored [view article]
Isn't it more accurate to say that central banks do not raise interest rates but that they quit suppressing them so much with fiat money? Replyitarist
Does Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
I've held (and still do hold) 3 of the 4 mentioned. True they've been flat. Others (YUM, PEP, MCD, RPM) have made up for the forest-like horizon line of my blue chippers. Though I am up on WMT about 130%. ReplyNixing Onyx - Cramer's Lightning Round (6/11/08) [view article]
Watch for another chance to get the AES PfC below $47.50. In the mean time own the common. They are all over the world. They just got spanked in Kazakstan or some other Stan on a power plant appropriation. See if the turds can keep it running? AES and BG Group the British energy conglomerate are in LNG power plants and projects all over the place. AES will rock. Add some of that preferred on price weakness to get some income stream in line with the common appreciation potential. The "C" is well past it's call date, so a purchase below the $50 par price means a good dividend with a great opportunity for capital gain. ReplyHawthorne
Lehman's a Lemon - Fast Money Recap (6/9/08) [view article]
The banks have bottomed???? Yeah, right!I'll let you guys snap them up, okay? Reply
Does Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
Your chart shows nothing more than the slow re-alighment of price & value. With regard to Microsoft at least, you need to consider how the PE has changed over this period too. Its fallen across this time from a very high multiple (think Google today) to mid teens, which for a stock of this quality is significantly undervalued, and will start to march up in tandem with EPS (as ideally all stocks should, if they perform as a function of the business's underlying value, not of over-optimistic projections of future growth). ReplyDoes Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
buy and hold old blue chips that raise dividends every year. ReplyDoes Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
It would also be interesting to add in the dividends etc., and then scale that against the purchasing power of the dollar. Thats the story of how you can go broke making money. ReplyDoes Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
I think the point is well taken, there are NO "ONE DECISION STOCKS", as was so often espoused in the 60s and 70s. Every investment should start with a performance plan. If it doesn't perform "fire it".Reply
Does Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
I was going with 2000 for all charts, but changed GE and C to show their significant lows just before 2000.Also, what got me thinking of this story was that the "Consensus Top Buy Blue Chips" of the early-mid 1990s were stocks like MSFT, WMT, GE, and C. Also names like KO, PG, CSCO, ORCL, etc. It was widely said and thought you could just buy these and put em away and make money -- obviously there have been better places to be in the 2000s than these big names. I was thinking of what are the names today that most everyone loves and think have almost neverending upside: GOOG, AAPL, MCD, XOM, CHL, & Materials/Commodity type Sectors. Reply
Does Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
One postscript along the selected statistics line...why does one company's chart start in 2000 and another in 1998? ReplyDoes Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
When one selects the Blue Chips and the time period they want to prove a pre-determined point, it is hardly a surprise that the point is "proven". (BTW, since when is 7+years considered "long-term"?...An analysis of all the Blue Chips as a group, over at least 15- 20 years, which includes dividends might be more revealing of the truth than a selective analysis that starts at an overheated market peak. Reply
Does Buy-and-Hold Work on Major Blue Chips? [view article]
Agreed on some your points. Sorry I left dividends out of the article, I had meant to mention them. However, my data shows MSFT and WMT with about a 1.6% yield currently -- GE and C yields are higher, but that is due to their share prices being around multi-year lows. Reply