Sunday, November 24, 2024
Self-storage real estate investment trusts (REITs) have an excellent long-term track record. However, the pandemic shutdown, followed by the reopening of the economy, produced a boom and then a bust for self-storage operators. The year-and-a-half decline for these REITs is over, and it’s time to add some self-storage to your portfolio. Let’s take a look […]
The current economic cycle has been, in a word, unusual. Housing stocks have remained strong even as banks have failed and mortgage rates have skyrocketed. Infrastructure stocks have done very well, and there is currently a bidding war breaking out over U.S. Steel (X – Get Rating). And consolidation in the steel industry should further lift the industry […]
Last week, in my 48-Hour Income service, we decided not to sell a cash-secured put on meme-stock favorite, Gamestop (GME). In 48-Hour Income, the goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. GME was up big with retail traders active ahead of earnings […]
Last week, we received word that Charlie Munger had died. Now, Charlie was about a month away from his hundredth birthday, so I couldn’t describe his passing as a surprise. It was, however, a cause for reflection. Everyone pays attention to what Munger’s business partner, Warren Buffett, does and says when it comes to business […]
Preferred stock issues can include a lot of specific features, such as whether they are cumulative or not, convertible or not, and whether there are extraordinary call provisions. With the massive increase in interest rates, preferred stocks with fixed-to-floating coupon rates are poised for significant, locked-in yield increases. That’s a massive 2024 profit opportunity just […]
My experience has been that it is best to be cautious when everyone else is piling into a trade. A consensus on Wall Street often turns out to be completely wrong. The latest example of this occurred a year ago, after a bad year for both stocks and bonds in 2022. Wall Street was telling […]
It’s time to put the November 2023 stock market rally into perspective because I’m seeing investors make the mistake of getting too bullish too fast. For all I know the rally can certainly squeeze a bit higher, but ultimately high interest rates will slow down the economy. What’s important to note about the November rally […]
It’s Christmas come early. Not really, but with Thanksgiving behind us, I wanted to start the Holiday season off with a bang. As everyone is making precise predictions about what stocks are going to do in 2024, I am using math to answer one simple question. Is this a good time to buy stocks? The […]
This doesn’t happen as often as it did even a few years ago (because it’s done automatically in the background now), but do you remember when you would get an alert on your computer that you needed to “Update Drivers”? Did you ever wonder exactly what a driver was and why they always seemed to […]
The era of zero and negative interest rates globally is drawing to a close, creating a major investment opportunity—including for dividend investors. More on that in a moment. The last bastion of negative interest rates is Japan, where the Bank of Japan (BOJ) first introduced negative interest rates to the world in January 2016; however, […]
