Six Dividend Stocks For Current Income

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:26:55 GMT

Most novice dividend investors typically are under the impression that successful dividend investing entails finding and purchasing the highest yielding stocks.[More...]

Another Aristocrat Raising Distributions

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:47:24 GMT

With the market up strongly year to date after hitting a multi year bottom in March, it is hard for investors to get excited about current dividend yields of 3%-4%.[More...]

Q2 Growth Report - Part 2

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:45:40 GMT

Earnings or dividends: which is more important? Which provides more of a clue to the outlook for this market? Earlier this week I released the first part of this series entitled "Q2 Growth Report - Part 1". In that post I presented some of the data compiled by[More...]

Q2 Growth Report - Part 1

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:48:21 GMT

Today's Wall Street Journal had an article that asked the question "Can Rally Run without Revenue?" Is the revenue situation really that bad? Let's take a quick look at some the data compiled through the Alert HQ process. After each quarter's earnings season, I try to pull together what I am now calling the Growth Report. Part 1 compiles the list of stocks that have shown a year-over-year increase in both revenue and earnings AND a sequential quarter-over-quarter increase in both revenue and earnings. Given the severity of the economic downturn, very few companies have been able to to pull off this trick. The following table presents a comparison of the last two quarters: [More...]

MLPs Dominate Distribution Increases

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:17:00 GMT

Checking the pulse of dividend increases is an exercise whose goal is to uncover potential dividend growth plays that I might have otherwise missed out on. Another reason for that is to refute the idea that dividend investing is dead. It is also interesting to look for trends in the data, while browsing through the[More...]

General vs Limited Partners in MLP's

Wed, 20 May 2009 13:40:00 GMT

There are two types of partners in a Master Limited Partnership structure, a general partner and limited partners. The general partner manages the master limited partnership and typically holds a 2% economic interest in it. The general partner also receives a percentage of the profits off the top, before the[More...]

Eleven Companies Bucking The Dividend Cuts Trend

Mon, 11 May 2009 16:11:00 GMT

Legg Mason (LM) is the latest financial stock to drastically cut dividends after reporting a large fourth quarter loss for 2008.[More...]

Chrysler Bankruptcy, Stocks Wobble

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:26:34 GMT

The third largest US auto maker filed for Chapter 11. Chrysler announced it will temporarily halt most vehicle production while it completes a deal with Italian car maker Fiat to resume car production. The failure of Chrysler was expected, but when it happens it always a shock. Chrysler will still sell cars (they have plenty in inventory) & the gov would back its auto warranties. Its plants will be idled during the legal proceedings. A giant business will have its fate decided by a judge. •Chrysler Files for Bankruptcy Protection to Shed Debt, Seal Fiat Alliance Markets absorbed the news fairly well. Dow had been up 100 or so in the AM & fell, not badly, in the PM, staying near break even. Dow closed down 17, advancers ahead of[More...]

Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) – An Island Of Stability For Dividend Investors

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:23:00 GMT

Master Limited Partnerships are limited by US Code to only apply to enterprises that engage in certain businesses, mostly pertaining to the use of natural resources, such as petroleum and natural gas extraction and transportation. They combine the tax advantages of a partnership and higher dividend yields with the day to day tradability of common stocks.MLPs consist of a general partner who manages the operations and limited partners who own the rest of the units for the partnership. Unlike corporations MLPs are not subject to double taxation.Their stocks are called units, while their dividends are called distributions. The units are very easy to buy and sell, as they trade just like any[More...]

54 Stocks Returning 15%+ in January

Sun, 01 Feb 2009 18:18:00 GMT

As we exit the worst January ever, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the best performers of the past month. Before we do, courtesy of Dshort.com this is a chart that has been passed around a lot in the investing community so I thought I'd share it. Two ways to read this - of the 4 great bear markets the past 100 years, 3 "ended" roughly where we are now... about a 50% loss in value from peak. That's the bullish view i.e. "can't get worse than this" and if we fall to S&P 750 (November lows) but never break through they will be correct. The bearish view is - the 4th bear market ended in a 90% drop, and if you plot the velocity of the decline, what happened to us in Sep - Nov caused us to be in lockstep with the worst of the 4. I'm not calling for a 90% drop[More...]

Pocketbook Power Boost

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 21:49:00 GMT

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Six Dividend Stocks For Current Income

Another Aristocrat Raising Distributions

Q2 Growth Report - Part 2

Q2 Growth Report - Part 1

MLPs Dominate Distribution Increases

General vs Limited Partners in MLP's

Eleven Companies Bucking The Dividend Cuts Trend

Chrysler Bankruptcy, Stocks Wobble

Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs) – An Island Of Stability For Dividend Investors

54 Stocks Returning 15%+ in January

Pocketbook Power Boost

Pocketbook Power Boost

Depot Solar Project Wins Important Nod

Energy Partners Ltd. Restructuring Creates Industry Gap in N.O.

Depot Group Balks at Solar Agreements: The Reuse Authority Said the Agreement Goes Beyond What the Group Can Do.

Solar Company Eyes Pueblo: The Firm Proposes a Big Solar Power Field on Unused Pueblo Chemical Depot Land.

OGE Energy Ends Pipeline Joint Venture Agreement

Wexford Orders Change at Energy Partners: Greenwich Firm Urges Board to Fire Management

$1.1 Million for SGLP Top Execs: The Year-End Payments to the CEO and Four Others Come As the Company's Parent Fights for Life.

USGS: 2.4 Tcf of Gas Beneath Eastern Oregon, Washington

EPL Reports Third Quarter 2009 Financial and Operational Results

EPL Announces Recently Placed Hedging Program

EPL Announces Common Stock Trading Update

EPL Announces Listing Change

EPL Provides Financial and Management Update

EPL Restructures Board of Directors

EPL Provides Operational and Financial Update

Wexford Capital Urges Changes at Energy Partners Ltd.

EPL Provides Production Update and Announces Commencement of Its First Deepwater GOM Production

EPL Announces Reaffirmation of Its Borrowing Base at $150 Million

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