Good enough earnings from Coke and Pepsi, adding both to additional portfolios
Neither company crushed Wall Street earnings expectations, but both reported good enough news in a very tough environment. I own PepsiCo in my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio, where it was up 220.4% from my initial December 30, 2008 pick as of the close on April 26. I...
Please watch my YouTube video: Quick Pick Utility ETF XLU
My one-hundredth-and seventeenth YouTube video “Quick Pick Utilities ETF XLU”” went up today. This week’s Quick Pick is a utilities ETF. Utilities are a good place to turn to for the next few months before we hit a full recession slowdown. This...
Please watch my new YouTube video: Quick Pick Pioneer Natural Resources
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My one-hundredth-and sixth YouTube video “Quick Pick Pioneer Natural Resources” went up today. This week my Quick Pick is Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD). I don’t like...
Performance report for Dividend Portfolio for 2021–total return for 2021 was 18.59% and dividend yield was 3.13%
One of my many New Year’s resolutions (I get pretty granular. Poor Richard has nothing on me when it comes to goal setting for self-improvement) was to do a better job of keeping the performance reports of my portfolios up to date. I’ve fallen two years...
CVS Health raises dividend and 2022 revenue guidance
CVS Health (CVS) will raise its annual dividend by 10% to $2.20 from $2.00 effective with the dividend payout scheduled for February 1. The company has also authorized a $10 billion share buyback program. The company also raised guidance for the full 2021 year to...
What are the effects on stocks of China’s economic slowdown? Doing some selling of copper ETFs today
On Monday the Chinese government reported that the country’s economy slowed more than expected in July. Retail sales were crimped by tough new virus restrictions introduced toward the end of the month to contain fresh outbreaks. Retail sales rose by 8.5% near...
With Fed stress test behind them, banks announce deluge of dividend increases and share buybacks
That didn’t take long. On Thursday the Federal Reserve reported that all 23 big banks tested in its annual stress test, passed. Which means that the last remaining restrictions on dividend increases and share buybacks are now history. Yesterday big banks started...
Wednesday copper price played a little catch up with copper stocks
Copper stocks have been moving steadily higher recently in anticipation of a turn in the eight week downward trend in the price of copper itself. Now the price of copper is showing some of the upward movement that the rally in copper stocks anticipated. For example,...
Two stock picks that are both growth and value to add to the Millennial Portfolio for long-term investors
Sure looks like a market struggling with rotations between growth and value stocks. One day the growth stocks sell off on fears of higher interest rates and rising inflation or something–and because after such a strong rally in the style growth stocks are very...
NextEra Energy acquires four wind farms for $733 million
NextEra Energy Partners (NEP), a subsidiary of utility NextEra Energy (NEE), will buy wind farms in California and New Hampshire from Brookfield Renewable Partners. The wind turbines have a combined capacity of 400 megawatts and have long-term contracts for their...
Fed to end restrictions on bank dividends, share buybacks at end of June
U.S. banks that pass their next stress tests will allowed to raise their dividends after June 30, the Federal Reserve said yesterday, March 25. The Fed will also lift any remaining restrictions on stock buybacks. Limits on dividend payouts to investors and share...
Bank stocks were just about the only thing in the green yesterday–which is why I added U.S. Bancorp to Jubak Picks on Friday (plus some thoughts on bank stock option plays)
Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLK) was up 0.52% yesterday, March 18, when almost everything else finished in the red. The Invesco KBWB Bank ETF (KBWB) was ahead 1.14%. Citigroup (C) gained 0.33%. Bank of America (BAC) was ahead 2.61%. U.S. Bancorp (USB) added...
Yield on 10-year Treasury climbs to 1.16%–time to rethink some bond market assumptions and to start some selling
A year ago, the yield on the 10-year Treasury note stood at 1.59%. From that point yields fell, leading to big gains for Treasuries and other bonds. (The Shares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF) gained 10.01% in 2020, for example.) Yields were down to 0.73% as of the...
2020 was a great year for dividend stocks: my Dividend Portfolio showed a return of 15.71% for 2020
It’s unusual, to say the least, to have a dividend portfolio match the returns on the Standard & Poor’s 500–especially in a year when the S&P 500 was setting an all time high–but that’s what happened in 2020. My Dividend Portfolio...
Buying Dow tomorrow in my Dividend Portfolio, Pick #8 in my Special Report on Dividend Stocks on JubakAM.com
Dow (DOW) certainly fits the dividend template that I’ve explained in my Special Report: “10 Dividend Stocks that are beating the risky rockets” on my subscription site JubakAM.com. The stock yields 5.26% after a 0.20% gain today December 9. That...
Dividend Portfolio ahead 14.19% for 2020…so far
While I was calculating (finally) the much delayed performance numbers for my Dividend Portfolio for 2018 and 2019, I thought I’d use the momentum to do the numbers for 2020 to date. For 2018, as I reported, the portfolio lost 15.52% and showed a dividend yield...
The returns for 2018 and 2019 for my Dividend Portfolio show the challenge facing dividend income investors during this period of extremely low interest rates.
In 2018 my Dividend Portfolio showed a yield on 3.60%. That produced $6,483 in dividend income that year. (In this portfolio I put an equal $10,000 into each position and rebalance each year.) The goal of this portfolio is to beat the yield on the 10-year Treasury. On...
Adding Duke Energy to my Dividend Portfolio
On the night of November 18, I made Duke Energy (DUK) my second pick in my Special Report: “Dividend Stocks that are beating the Risky Rockets” on my JubakAM.com subscription site. On November 19, I added these shares to my Dividend Portfolio. Duke Energy...
Why buying CVS Health now is worth the risk of some market volatility–the 3.57% dividend helps
On October 27 I made CVS Health (CVS) one of my “10 Stocks for a post coronavirus world” on my JubakAssetManagement.com subscription site and declared that it was the only one of the first group of five stocks that I’d buy now–even though the...
Pfizer says it will be ready to file for an emergency use application for its coronavirus vaccine by the third week in November
In a public letter Pfizer (PFE) CEO Albert Bourla wrote that the company hopes to have initial data from its Phase 3 clinical trail of a coronavirus vaccine by the end of October and that it will wait until the third week in November to file an emergency use...
Adding Southern Copper with its 3.33% dividend to the (what else?) Dividend Portfolio
In my just completed Special Report: “Your Investment Guide for the Next 6 Dangerous Stock Market Months” on my JubakAM.Com site I wrote that I’d look to add some coronavirus recovery stocks to my portfolio during weakness in the November time...
Pfizer to deliver first vaccine efficacy results as soon as September 27–but what, if anything, will they mean?
Pfizer (PFE) and its partner BioNTech (BNTX) plan to take a first look at the efficacy results from their 44,000 personal vaccine trial as soon as September 27. But that first look will be after just 32 coronavirus infections have accumulated in the two...
Adding Pfizer to my Dividend Portfolio today
In Special Report: Meeting Your Retirement Challenge on my subscription site JubakAM.com, I suggested that when temporary factors created an opportunity to buy the shares of a solid, predictable, cash flow generating company, with a yield of 4% you should jump at the...
Adding AES to my Dividend Portfolio
Yesterday I named AES (AES) as my seventh pick in my Special Report: 10 Global Warming Stock Picks on my subscription JubakAM.com site. I also added the utility stock to my Dividend Portfolio on all three of my sites. Hence this post. I wrote: “Reducing...
Dividend Portfolio member Hanesbrands pops 9.51% today on analyst upgrade
Last time I visited Hanesbrands (HBI) on May 11 in my Dividend Portfolio it was down 37.66% from my February 21 pick. But it was worth holding on, I argued, for the hefty 6.69% dividend and an eventual turn in the share price. Well, today, July 14, the shares yield...
Selling Illinois Tool Works out of my Dividend Portfolio to make room for new dividend strategy and new picks
My second sell of the day. Way back in November 2019–if you remember a period when projected earnings growth was strong and before the coronavirus recession–I argued for a dividend strategy that focused on companies with fast growing and solidly...
Selling Visa out of Dividend Portfolio to make room for new dividend strategy and picks
Way back in November 2019–if you remember a period when projected earnings growth was strong and before the coronavirus recession–I argued for a dividend strategy that focused on companies with fast growing and solidly predictable earnings that were, in my...
Adding Coke to my Dividend Portfolio
Today’s shocking announcement from Royal Dutch Shell (RDS-A) that it would cut its 10% dividend, to 16 cents a share is a brutal reminder of one of the big challenges facing dividend investors. Royal Dutch shares were down 12.02% as of 3 p.m. Nw York time today,...
Selling ONEOK out of my Dividend Portfolio ahead of earnings and after ex-dividend date
The greatest danger of any dividend position right now is from a cut to the dividend payout. That kind of cut would send even an already crushed stock lower. I think that’s the possibility facing shares of ONEOK (OKE) when it reports earnings on April 28. The...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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