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- Consider Your Dividend Payout Ratio
When growth and income investors start hunting for stocks with high dividend yields, this individual should make it a point to check out a company’s payout ratio as well. While it may not be a very sexy ratio, it deserves a quick peek.
Payout Ratio Defined
A company's payout ratio can be defined as the proportion of its earnings paid out to common stockholders in the form of cash dividends. More specifically, the number is calculated as follows:
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Переслать - Perrigo Company: Timely Buy Of The Week?
Perrigo Company (PRGO), which manufactures and distributes over-the-counter (OTC) and prescription pharmaceuticals, nutritional products and consumer products, is expanding as consumers switch from more expensive, brand-name products to cheaper items in a slowing economy.
PRGO, headquartered in Allegan, MI, has manufacturing and logistics facilities in the United States, Israel, United Kingdom, Mexico, Germany and China.
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Переслать - United States Steel Corporation: Growth And Income Buy Alert
United States Steel Corporation (x) is set to announce results for the second quarter on July 29. In addition to being rewarded with income, the most recent of which was a quarterly dividend of 25 cents per share, investors can expect growth from U.S. Steel as earnings per share are estimated to grow by 18% over the next 3 – 5 years. The industry average projection is a lower 10%.
Company Description
United States Steel Corporation produces steel, … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Headwinds Affecting Aerospace Stocks
Difficulties from many directions have put pressure on stocks in the Aerospace/Defense industry. Are there any silver linings we should be looking for, based on valuation or an improving business cycle? Zacks senior equities analyst John Nelson Simon was on hand to give us his thoughts.
Have high fuel costs also impacted suppliers to airplane manufacturing companies yet?
High fuel costs have not yet impacted the results of the … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Teva Looks To Solidify Role As World's Top Generic Drug Maker
Rumors are swirling in the Israeli press, that the world's largest generic drug maker is about to become much larger. Reports are that the Israeli based Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA) is in talks to buy US Generic maker Barr Pharmaceuticals (BRL) for as much as $7.5 billion, a 40% premium to their closing price yesterday. While Barr comes with a fat price tag, the deal would make sense for Teva, as Barr is very active in Central and Eastern Europe, … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Using Currency Investments As A Proxy For Commodities
When it comes to exchange traded fund (ETF) investing, it has become quite simple to build a narrow portfolio with these funds, with a very specific goal in mind. The choices will keep making the evolution of ETF investing quite dramatic.
Roger Nusbaum for Seeking Alpha has a few examples for investors who may wish to use a currency investment as a proxy for commodities.
His first example is the WisdomTree South Africa Currency (SZR) as a proxy for gold.
But if an … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Wind, Solar and Biofuels Made Up 85% Of New Investments In 2007
So the markets are in the pits. Earlier this week, patrons were lining up for hours—predawn hours—to withdraw money from their failing banks. And the Dow recently hit it’s lowest point since July. . . of 2006.
At this point, many portfolios are in a holding pattern. The so-called credit crunch, and the resultant housing collapse and severe stock market downturn, has led to the shrinking of savings and the defaulting of millions of mortgages.
And yet, there’s no point in … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - The Rise And Fall Of The Subprime Mortgage Market
The chart above shows the subprime share of mortgage originations from 2001 to 2007, using data from Harvard’s “2008 State of the Nation’s Housing” study, available here.
1. From … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Trading Flag Patterns, In Four Easy Steps
It has been a few months since I have discussed the procedure for how I treat any given trading strategy, today I am going to highlight how I trade flag patterns.
A flag pattern is a chart pattern that illustrates the look of a flag. You have a sharp move in prices, which is referred to as the “flag pole” followed by the flag itself. A flag can be bullish or bearish, depending on the context of the underlying trend and the shape that follows. Naturally, bear flags occur in bear trends and … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Majority Of Americans Prefer Ethanol
The Renewable Fuels Association contracted a pair of polling firms to survey voters beliefs on ethanol as a renewable fuel. Two firms were selected to get both Democratic and Republican opinion. The opening paragraph of the report, linked here, gives the results:
The on-going campaign to force the nation to revisit and reduce its commitment to ethanol has failed to … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Stock Market Close: Google And Microsoft Missed Earnings
My mistake, crude options expire today. This drop in oil prices doesn't mean the end of a “bubble”, as I've heard some say. CNBC has been all over the “is this a commodity bubble bursting?” analysis today. One day is not a sudden trend change. I knew there was a good reason why I wasn't listening to them anymore. So in this options expiration week, the market has gone from oversold to (almost) overbought in the blink of an eye. Who can take this seriously? Ok, besides … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - US Dollar Declines Against Euro and British Pound Even As Oil Is Down By $5
These past 2 days have seen a lot of choppy movements in the financial markets. US stocks embarked on the second straight day of massive gains on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up more than 200 points. The Dow is now at 11,446.66, and its two-day gain is 4.4% - the biggest in nearly six years. This 2-day rally of the … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Wells Fargo Rides To The Rescue Of The Financial Sector
Better than expected second quarter earnings news from California-based Wells Fargo (wfc) and its unexpected ten percent dividend boost helped spark a hefty rally in the overall market—particularly beleaguered financials—on Wednesday. While the bank's net income fell 21% in the quarter, this was better than forecast. Also, the bank was able to increase its net interest margin to 4.92% from 4.89% from the year-ago period. This is a pretty impressive accomplishment in a … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Homebuilder ETFs Get A Lift From Reports, But The Numbers Are Skewed
Homebuilding exchange traded funds (ETFs) are up sharply in trading this morning after reports that single-family home construction fell while a new law in New York gave a boost to apartments buildings.
Single-family homebuilding lost 5.3% in June to its slowest pace in 17 years, reports Martin Crutsinger for the Associated Press. The last time it was this bad was in January 1991, when the country was in the middle of another housing downturn.
But construction of multifamily units soared … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Euro Recovers Against US Dollar As US Optimism Fades
EURO
The euro appreciated vis-à-vis the U.S. dollar today as the single currency tested offers around the US$ 1.5890 level and was supported around the $1.5810 level. Traders erased some of the common currency's losses yesterday on concerns it will take a significant amount of time to work through this latest round of credit problems in the U.S. financial sector. The U.S. dollar was also lower on media reports that major sovereign wealth funds have … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Stock Market Is Liable For A Further Squeeze Ahead
You knew it was coming…..you knew it was coming…you knew it was coming…..BAM! Yesterday it finally came. Macro Man refers, of course, to the dreaded short squeeze, which finally arrived with a bang last night. Yesterday’s 2.5% rally was the largest since April Fool’s Day, which set the stage for the painful short-covering rally of April and most of May.
It would appear that the market is liable for a further squeeze from here. A number of of factors that Macro Man watches are … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - More On Short-Selling Of Stocks
This is some interesting stuff against the backdrop of recent actions by the SEC to curb short selling:
From the Financial Times:
“The cost of borrowing shares for short sales on Wall Street has been rising steeply in recent weeks, hampering the ability of hedge funds and other sophisticated traders to profit from market declines….
…The Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday revealed emergency action to clamp down on abusive … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Is The US Economy Just Going Through "A Bit Of A Rough Patch"?
When I first read today's post, "Mental Recession? Maybe. Economic Recession? No," by James Pethokoukis, "money and politics blogger" for U.S. News & World Report's Capital Commerce blog and the assistant managing editor of the magazine's Money & Business section,... ... [visit site to read more]Переслать - Financials Lead "False" Rally In Stock Markets
NEWS: The Dow closed the session with its best one-day point gain since 4/1. The closing numbers showed a gain of 276 points or 2.5%. The S&P rallied 30 points or 2.5% and the NASDAQ exploded for a gain of 69 points or 3.1%. The leader on the day was the Russell 2000 with a gain of 3.7%. Technically the index rallied from triple bottom and is the most attractive of the major indices.
THE BOTTOMLINE: The big news today came from the fifth largest bank … [visit site to read more]
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Переслать - Could This Be The Start Of A Bear Market Rally?
All of the news will be good, anything bad will be buried (or dismissed) as much as possible. Maybe. This could be the start of the next bear market rally, or not. Don't you just love that decisiveness! Financials certainly got a boost today. The last few weeks have seen them beaten into the ground, and then some. So it's really no surprise, on top of Wells Fargo reporting alleged good numbers, that there would be some kind of rally.
I'm not as optimistic on WFC as some people … [visit site to read more]
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