Thursday, November 7, 2024
Many of us have heard this old chestnut, usually attributed to Mark Twain: “Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.” A number of America’s richest people understand this, and are now among the country’s largest landholders. The list includes Jeff Bezos, the Ford family, Dr. Peter Buck (co-founder of Subway), Ted Turner, John Malone, and […]
While market sentiment is discussed all the time, it is rarely defined. That’s why in today’s Hidden Profit Report, I sat down to talk with Ray Micaletti of Relative Sentiment Technology. Ray has developed an approach that compares retail investor sentiment to institutional investor activity that gives valuable and actionable information about the condition of […]
There are a host of leading indicators out there investors can use to gauge the market, and one I like to watch in particular is the price of copper. So what I’ve done is compare two assets on a chart – the price of copper and the New York Stock Exchange. What the naked eye […]
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the idiom “to live off the fat of the land” this way: “to live very well by enjoying the best things that are available without having to work hard to get those things.” Investors can do this literally and sit back and watch their money grow, without doing much work, by […]
Last year, investors and savers rushed to buy Series I savings bonds as their inflation-linked yields approached 10%. Now, the yield on I bonds is much, much lower. If you purchased these bonds for the high yield last year, it may be time to cash them in and invest elsewhere. Let me explain why – […]
In our 48-Hour Income service, we sold a put on Fastly (FSLY) last week. The goal of the service is to generate 1% to 3% returns per week by selling 2-day puts in certain stocks. FSLY had earnings coming out so its options premiums were higher than normal. We chose a strike that gave us […]
It does not matter which metric or statistic you use. Stocks are not cheap based on any empirically proven valuation metric. The S&P 500 P/E ratio is over 25—not the highest level ever recorded, but certainly on the high end of the historical scale. And the average P/E ratio of the stocks in the tech-heavy […]
A secondary stock offering comes with a sharp drop in a company’s stock price. Rapid price declines make investors nervous, wondering if the company is facing troubles. The recent sale of 6.5 million new shares by one of my favorite high-yield dividend stocks highlights how this type of transaction can benefit investors. Let me show […]
Stability can be a virtue in any economic climate. Consumer staple stocks are the very epitome of stability. An analysis by Verdad Research found the sector had the lowest income statement volatility of any listed sector between 1996 and 2023. Most companies that make consumer staples have reliable cash flows and steadily growing dividends—and history […]
In the past year and a half or so, there’s been lots of talk about the U.S. yield curve essentially inverting. So today, I wanted to make a couple of important points about it that’s important for you to see. As you know, the yield curve visually depicts how bond maturity dates and interest rates […]
