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Income Investments

Three Yields for Current Conditions

November 29, 2011
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The market was only open for three-and-a-half days last week, and it still managed to lose approximately 5% of its value. I don’t have to tell you that’s not good. I’ve been discussing the overall market a lot lately (if you didn’t catch last week’s market video, you can watch it here) so today I think we’ll ignore it–and focus on stocks that ignore it too (more or less). Below are three recommendations from the latest Dick Davis Dividend Digest. Each one of these three stocks is a conservative dividend payer with relatively low correlation to larger market moves....

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5 Great Dividend-Paying Stocks

October 20, 2011
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We recently conducted a short survey of our Dick Davis Investment Digest subscribers. Several common concerns were market volatility and economic uncertainty (which I wrote about two weeks ago here). Today, I want to address a third common refrain. As a subscriber from Texas put it: “Maximize dividend income while preserving capital.” Two other respondents complained about the low interest rates on fixed income investments. Howard B. wrote that he would like help “finding the highest possible yield with investment grade or high credit quality. I am looking for a combination of appreciation and current cash flow yields.” Charles...

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Coiled Spring Stocks

June 16, 2011
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It’s always interesting to be in my shoes during market downturns. As editor of the Dick Davis Digests, I spend the majority of my day reading what our hundreds of contributors are writing. As corrections begin to develop, they exhibit a variety of responses. The perma-bears say, “I told you so.” Advisors who were already wary, and largely in cash, may immediately sell everything and stick their heads in the sand to wait out the pain. But most of the experts will own at least a handful of stocks at the beginning of any correction, and most of them...

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Why I Expect More Stocks Will Pay Dividends Next Year

April 14, 2011
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A few months ago, we surveyed you, our Investment of the Week readers, and asked what types of investments you wanted to read about. Small company stocks, technology stocks and oil and gas stocks were all popular choices. However, the investment class with the most votes by far, with 69% of readers expressing interest in it, was dividend-paying stocks. The subscribers to my Dick Davis Dividend Digest were among those surveyed, and they’re obviously interested in income-generating investments. However, they represented far less than 69% of the sample, leading me to conclude this is a topic of broad interest...

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Three Solid Investments: AVT, PCS and TRW

February 17, 2011
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Three Solid Investments: AVT, PCS and TRW

I pulled up a list of Value Line stocks with Timeliness Ratings of one, and as usual 100 stocks popped up. In Value Line’s view, all 100 stocks will outperform the stock market indexes for the next six to 12 months. Then I downloaded all Standard & Poor’s stocks with S&P Stars Ratings of five, their “Strong Buy” rank.  Only 77 stocks came up, but all are considered by S&P to be superior investments. I use a matching program, created by my loving wife who happens to also be a computer programmer, which compares the stocks from the two...

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