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Fundamental data is updated weekly, as of the prior weekend. Please download the Full Report and Dividend Report for any changes.
May 4, 2018
Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 4
Let's take a look at companies that raised/lowered their dividend this week.
May 2, 2018
Apple’s Quarter Brings a Bushel of Positive News
Image Source: Aaron Yoo. Apple’s strength was on full display in its second quarter of fiscal 2018 as it beat expectations on a number of quarterly measures and delivered a significant dividend increase. The company remains one of our favorites on the market today. Our fair value estimate currently sits at $201 per share.
Apr 26, 2018
What’s Working (or NOT Working) in Today’s Market?
Image shown: Crude oil continues to lead gainers while consumer staples, REITs, and energy MLPs continue to get shellacked. Let’s take a look at what’s been working and what’s not been working in the market thus far in 2018. To little surprise, in our opinion, commodity prices have been the leaders, while interest-rate sensitive equities have been the laggards. We’ve been expecting this.
Apr 20, 2018
Reiterating Our Positive View on Apple
We continue to include Apple in both newsletter portfolios. Very few companies have the balance-sheet strength and free-cash-flow generation that Apple does.
Apr 17, 2018
IBM’s Free Cash Flow Short of Expected Annual Pace
Image Source: andrew cooke. With other fantastic ideas in technology, we see no reason to be interested in IBM’s shares.
Apr 2, 2018
Trump Knocks Air Out of Amazon; Intel Investors Overreact to Apple News
Only fools, or worse, are saying that our money losing Post Office makes money with Amazon. THEY LOSE A FORTUNE, and this will be changed. Also, our fully tax paying retailers are closing stores all over the country...not a level playing field! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 2, 2018 President Trump continues to move markets, and his messages about Amazon haven’t gone unnoticed. Apple seems to be targeting wider gross margins in coming years, as it looks to bring in-house a part of its supply chain. Intel’s shares overreact.
Apr 2, 2018
Why Some Investors Fail -- Worms!
Image Source: crabchick. When you read our research, we’re not just providing financial metrics -- Valuentum is striving to provide an answer to the most important question in investing: what is a company worth? Though there are varying opinions about which underlying factor is the most important investment consideration, at the end of the day, the process of valuation collects every investment consideration to provide a conclusion. It is the answer after all other considerations, the final outcome of analysis. It is why we say that investors that don't pay attention to valuation may be doomed to fail...eventually. Not seeking valuation is not seeking the answer.
Mar 20, 2018
Avoiding Troubled Equities Such as General Electric
The Valuentum process waits for a stock’s price to be moving higher before it is considered. The stock must not only be undervalued on both a discounted cash-flow basis and relative value basis, in our view, but the market must also believe that its true intrinsic value should be higher, too, as evidenced by a rising share price. The process is symmetrical. We also would wait for a company’s share price to break down before we may consider removing an overpriced stock. In some cases, the information contained in prices can even provide clues when to remove an underpriced stock, as in the case of General Electric.
Feb 27, 2018
Buffett’s Berkshire, Corporate Buybacks on Pace for Record; Lithium, Steel Prices on the Move
Image Source: Berkshire Hathaway, Shareholder Letter (2017). “Fifteen common stock investments at year end that had the largest market value.” “The less the prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we must conduct our own.” – Warren Buffett, Shareholder Letter (2017)
Feb 15, 2018
Cisco Rallies Big Time!
Image shown: Performance of the S&P 500 (SPY) since August 2017. As US equities continue their newly-found volatility, let’s take a look at some recent earnings reports and other developments around the markets. Cisco, the workhorse of both simulated newsletter portfolios, put up a fantastic report and upped its dividend. Berkshire continues to love Apple, and we maintain the view that the 10-year Treasury rate may be the greatest determinant of how well stocks perform in the coming decades. Airlines, garbage stocks, the “gas tax,” and more.



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