How do you define a high quality stock investment?
At least for me, a high quality stock investment is the one that exhibits the following three qualities:1. High Quality Financials2. High Dividend3. High Dividend GrowthI'm a value and dividend growth...
View ArticleWhich department store stock should I buy?
A value investor is always looking for bargain stocks to buy. With the US stock market trading at a P/E of around 22, it's hard to find cheap good quality stocks.However, if you have been paying...
View ArticleA Stock Watchlist Makes A Better Investor
What is a stock watchlist?Stock watchlist is simply a list of stocks that one wants to buy when the conditions are right. Buy conditions can be triggered by a short-term company issue or industry...
View ArticleConsider These Issues Before Investing In Foreign Stocks
Market pundits and investment experts have been telling us to start investing in foreign stocks. This is mainly because the US stock market is at its all-time highs and due a major correction whereas...
View ArticleLessons To Be Learned From My Stock Sale History
I believe, there is some truth to the following investment quotes:More money is lost selling stocks than just keeping the shares and enjoying the ride through ups and downs of the market.Your stock...
View ArticleIs Apple A Buy After Recent Sell-Off?
With a market value of nearly $750 billion, Apple is by far the most valuable and well known technology companies today. In terms of its stock price, it has had a great run for the past 12 months with...
View ArticleSigns You Should Quit Your Job
Do you hate your job? Are you frustrated at work? Do you wish you could do something else with your life?Well, you are not alone. According to a new Gallup study on the American workplace, two-thirds...
View ArticleShould You Be Investing In The Current Stock Market?
We are at or near a peak of a second longest bull market in the US history. A bull market is defined by a stock market that keeps on rising without being interrupted by at least a 20% decline.So how...
View ArticleMy Half Year Stock Buy Performance Analysis
Price Performance on Stock Buys from January - June 2017 (click image to zoom)In this post, I will share with you the performance of my recent stock picks using a simple back-testing method.You can use...
View ArticleMy Dividend Stock Shopping List
Check out my stocks shopping list!I maintain a shopping list of stocks that I'm interested in buying under right buying conditions.The right buying conditions come true when certain valuation,...
View ArticleOur Utah Summer Vacation Part I
Thought, I write about our recent Utah summer vacation and take a break from usual investment related topics and "market is falling" rant.For 2017 summer vacation, we picked Utah as our destination...
View ArticleHow To Know When To Sell A Stock?
One of the most difficult decisions in stock market investing is to know when to sell a stock.I've been investing for over 20 years now, but I still struggle with this decision. It is especially true...
View ArticleA Lesson From History: Market Does Not Go Down In A Straight Line
During the 2009 market crash, we had three chances to get out before the market took a nose dive. Once you miss these chances, you better hold-on tight and make sure you don't own any low quality...
View ArticleOur Utah Summer Vacation Part II
Visitors taking a break from heat outside the Zion LodgeI wanted to finish writing about our Summer Vacation Part II before the summer ends. Well, the summer has officially ended, and I'm a bit late...
View ArticleHow I am Protecting My Credit Report
Today most Americans (about 143 million people) are waking up to the news of their personal information such as Social Security numbers, names, date-of-births, and in many instances driver's license...
View ArticleNever Ending Equifax Headache: A Fourth Credit Bureau?
Man, I thought I had it all covered after putting credit report locks across all three major credit bureaus (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) in the aftermath of Equifax security breach: How I am...
View ArticleMy Dividend Radar
Just as Air Traffic Controller tracks every incoming and outgoing airplane in his airspace or airport, I track my dividends as they come in for a landing into my account.I have built a Dividend Payment...
View ArticleMy Magic Heat Map Says: IBM Shares Ripe For Buying
The "Heat Map", which I've implemented as part of my stock watchlist system, identifies stocks that are cheap or expensive based on their 52-week trading range. I call it a Heat Map because stocks with...
View ArticleBuilding A City Of Dividend Stocks
I like to track my investments in a visually fun and appealing manner instead of just plain boring spreadsheets. Don't get me wrong, I like spreadsheets, but creating visualizations of my investments...
View ArticleAT&T: A Telecom Giant On Flash Sale (Part I)
On October 11, AT&T (stock ticker T) warned on Q3 results, which caused its share price to decline by about 6%. Such a big one day price decline is no less than a correction and could possibly be a...
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