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Retail investors borrowing money to buy stocks
I don’t think this is a good development. When individual investors are borrowing in order to increase their stock holdings it feels like the stock market bubble is ready to pop. It’s like gamblers using their credit cards or home equity lines of credit in order to roll the dice a few more times. I […]
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I’m fully invested now
Today I updated my Portfolios Page. There you’ll see every single stock and fund I’ve purchased and there is a brief description at the top of each portfolio. I completed the sale of my house in Illinois and have used those funds to fully dive into income investing. I’m a little uneasy about the whole […]
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Weighing the risks of 3 potential new portfolios
As I’ve posted before I have two stock portfolios right now. One is fairly conservative and is an IRA. I’m investing that one for long term growth since I can’t touch it until I hit 59 1/2 years old. The second one carries a little more risk and is invested to bring me monthly income. […]
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Dividend Yield Theory and why I use it
Dividend Yield Theory is the idea that a Blue Chip company’s dividend yield should hover around it’s average over some long period of time. Blue chip companies are boring, stable, and have business models that don’t change much. They are not necessarily growth companies like tech stocks but should maintain a stable stock price and […]
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Another logo to try out
The logo I created before was a bit too busy. It was also very literal and I didn’t like it. This one is maybe off the mark but it’s simpler.
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My strategy on energy stocks
Oil prices have rebounded post-pandemic. Oil prices have staged a rapid recovery since the biggest crisis to strike the energy industry in decades. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies stepped in last spring to backstop the market by slashing production in the teeth of a collapse in crude prices. This week, […]
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Why I don’t invest with a concentration on stock price
I don’t understand why a company’s stock prices moves up or down. I’ve never understood it. I watched Microsoft’s stock hover at $26.00 for a decade until Steve Ballmer stepped aside. It didn’t make sense to me because Microsoft at the time was way larger than Apple and they were making money hand over fist. […]
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Dividend movers of the month
The month of February was pretty good for my portfolio. All in all my annual income increased by $113.00 from investments in 8 companies. T. Rowe Price (TROW) was by far my biggest mover. They increased their dividend by 20%. It’s dividend went to $1.08 per share from $0.90 per share. Coca-Cola (KO) announced a […]
