Clorox Hikes Dividends, but is it a buy at current levels? + MORE

Finding high-quality dividend stocks doesn’t have to be difficult or time consuming. By looking for stocks with underlying financial strength and reliable payouts, even beginning investors can unlock exceptional returns for years on end. Today, let’s look at two dividend stocks with low risk and high dividend growth — an ideal combination for even the most novel investor…

One aspect of dividend investing that is very appealing to me is the consistency of dividend increases for many of the dividend champions I own. I realize how I take these raises for granted, in the rare event when a stock I own freezes or cuts distributions.

Over the past week, Clorox (CLX) boosted dividends by 10…

It’s been a little while and I’ve certainly missed it. Today, I’m starting off by closing 2 trades done earlier in the year. First off,
Long Google (GOOG) & Short Valueclick (VCLK): +24,79%

 

 
Long AOL (AOL) & Short Demand Media (DMD) -26,66%

Today, I am opening a new trade that involves 2 stocks trading at comparable forward P/E ratios…

I recently wrote about the difficulties that us value/dividend investors face in allocating capital to equities right now. The S&P 500 is up 17% YTD and we’re only a little more than five months into the year. Are many companies worth 17% more now than they were five months ago? Were many stocks 17% cheaper than they should have been five months ago? As always, it’s not really my focus to answer questions like these as at that point you’re trying to value an entire market which is impossible…

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Driven by computers that cost more than the average person will earn in their lifetime the investment markets move at light speed. To keep pace hedge funds, mutual funds, institutional investors and multi-billion dollar money managers spend large sums of money on high-tech tools to give them an edge…