Aug
24
2011
Exchange-traded funds offer a convenient solution to put money into sectors or niches that interest you. In the event you expect telecommunications companies to thrive within the coming years, the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Telecom ETF (NYSE: IYZ ) could prevent numerous trouble. In place of attempting to work out which companies will perform best, you …
Aug
24
2011
{“s” : “ctl”,”k” : “a00,a50,b00,b60,c10,g00,h00,l10,p20,t10,v00″,”o” : “”,”j” : “”} Press Release Source: CenturyLink, Inc. On Tuesday August 23, 2011, 11:55 am EDT MONROE, La., Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE:CTL – News) today announced that its Board of Directors voted to declare a quarterly cash dividend of $.725 per share, payable on September …
Aug
24
2011
Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN ) can be cheaper than you believe. In the daily noise machine of CNBC, analyst estimates, and quarterly announcements, investors are inundated with talking heads obsessing over earnings-per-share figures. Earnings, or net income, is an accounting construction that’s the basis for the cost-to-earnings ratio, the most well-liked way of measuring how …
Aug
24
2011
The market dump during the last two months have been both swift and brutal, but for investors trying to build a position in dividend stocks, it has been a present. Falling prices create higher dividend yields, and better dividend yields can offer protection against further market declines. With that during mind, I created a listing …
Aug
24
2011
However hard the market slams a stock, there’s always the likelihood it’ll come bouncing right back. We’ll consult our Motley Fool CAPS community to locate shares at the rebound, examining one specific sector of the economy looking for companies with rising CAPS ratings. There are 173 stocks listed under “telecommunications” within the CAPS’ screener, …
Aug
24
2011
Although business headlines still tout earnings numbers, many investors have moved past net earnings as a measure of a company’s economic output. That’s because earnings are quite often less trustworthy than cash flow, since earnings are more open to manipulation in line with dubious judgment calls. Earnings’ unreliability is definitely one of the reasons …
Aug
24
2011
As investors, we always want our investments to generate a healthy return. However, investors often forget that returns stem from two, not one, very important factors: 1) the business’ ability to generate income and 2) the worth you pay for one share of these profits. This idea of price versus returns …
Aug
24
2011
Because the stock market has slid and volatility has surged over the last several weeks, using combinations of puts and calls has worked well and continues to have merit. An identical holds for purchasing calls that expire in a month or less within the expectation that, if the stock market tanks, snapback stock rallies will …
Aug
24
2011
Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes one of the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (AMEX: SDY) where we now have detected an approximate $117.3 million dollar inflow – that’s a 2.1% increase week over week in outstanding units (from 114,953,658 to 117,403,658). Some of …
Aug
24
2011
We prefer high dividend stocks over long-term Treasuries. The ten-year Treasury bond has an exceptionally low yield to maturity at this moment. The bonds are performing spectacularly during this down market, but over the following 10 years they are not good investments. An investor who bets $100 on a high dividend stock that yields greater …
