Owens Corning Larger Than S&P 500 Component SAIC + MORE

Dividends are great, not only because you get cash in your pockets. It’s also a symbol for the ability of a company to share its profits with the shareholders of the company. Dividends are good but they are better when the company is cheaply priced. This month, I started a screen serial of the cheapest stocks from several major sectors…

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In a previous article I wrote on when to sell dividend stocks, many investors were absolutely furious that I would not even think about selling after a stock I own goes up 1000% in value. The reality is that this would depend on the circumstances, but since I am a long-term investor, I expect that at least some of the stocks I purchase today would become tenbaggers over the next 30 years or…

This is going to be a quick morning post as I arrived early today as I taught a colleague was going to take another sick day. But since she arrived on time I decided to escape and I will go there at my usual time.This is not something fresh and new from Susan Brunner blog, but a time ago, I read about her investing in Barrick Gold Corporation (ABX), so I decided to do the same! LOVE U DEAR SUSAN…

A little while back, Kraig from Young Cheap Living reached out to me by email to say hi and strike up a conversation. It seemed that we have a lot in common – we both save over half of our net income, invest regularly in the stock market (he through index investing), we’re both young guys (I’m 31, he’s 29) and both of us are intently looking forward to a future full of time and free of any recurring obligations that do not bring us great joy…

I’ve been very impressed by how quickly things have moved in Japan. I read about the fact that markets rarely move smoothly because as soon as they anticipate something happening, they’ll move as quickly as possible. I guess the same will happen in the US when the market ends up believing that interest rates will rise…

In the latest look at stocks ordered by largest market capitalization, Russell 3000 component Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) was identified as having a larger market cap than the smaller end of the S&P 500, for example SAIC Inc (NYSE: SAI), according to The Online Investor. Click here to find out the top S&P 500 components ordered by average analyst rating »