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Mar 19, 2018
     
        
      Market Overreacts to Facebook News 
  Image Source: Christopher. The headline news seems concerning, but we’re taking a long-term perspective with Facebook. We doubt the news will meaningfully impact the trajectory of growth of its long-term free cash flow, and we’re not reading too much into events that seem heavily-influenced by the overheated political environment. Mar 16, 2018
     
        
      Saying Good Bye to Boeing…For Now 
  There probably hasn’t been a better large-cap call in the Dow Jones Industrial Average than Boeing during the past couple years, and we have been all over it. But shares have now “rolled over,” and its valuation isn’t as attractive as it once was, both dynamics pointing to reasons for removal from the simulated Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio. We continue to peruse our coverage universe for an adequate dividend growth replacement. Mar 16, 2018
     
        
      Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending March 16 
  Let's take a look at companies that raised/lowered their dividend this week. Mar 15, 2018
     
        
      Dollar General: A Model of Consistency 
  Dollar General’s fiscal 2017 marked its 28th consecutive year of positive same-store sales growth, and we couldn’t be more impressed with the consistency of its operational performance in the past three decades, as well as its share price performance since its addition to the simulated Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio. Mar 15, 2018
     
        
      Nearly 60 Distribution Cuts Later, We Maintain Our View on the Hazards of the MLP Business Model 
  Image Source: Brian Cantoni. Valuentum has been highlighting the inherent risks associated with the master limited partnership (MLP) structure for some time now, but we are not alone in acknowledging the limited sustainability of such structures. Internal simplification transactions may only become more common moving forward as management teams seek to optimize the structure of their entities. Mar 15, 2018
     
        
      Cigna, Express, and the Unwinding of the PBM Market 
  Image Source: Cigna. Given its track record of creative destruction, when Amazon plans to enter a particular line of business, it presents an ominous threat to incumbents. What is often overlooked, too, is that Amazon is more than willing to try new verticals—if they prove promising, additional assets will be devoted to the new line of business, often with fawning media coverage. If Amazon is unsuccessful in its endeavor, however, then it seems as though it will “fail fast” and shut down the project and move on. We found the recent announcement of a joint venture to tackle the healthcare industry as particularly noteworthy. Mar 13, 2018
     
        
      Our Ideas Are Performing Awesome So Far in 2018!!! 6 of the Top 7 of the Dow! 
  We’ve done a fantastic job identifying some of the top performers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average during 2018 (6 of the top 7!), but to be fair, a couple haven’t panned out that well either. In any case, we couldn’t be more pleased with the simulated newsletter portfolio ideas. Mar 13, 2018
     
        
      Don’t Just Look at the House; Examine the Foundation 
  Image Source: Lindsay Holmwood. Let’s examine how we derive the forecasts in our stock and dividend reports. "Buying a stock after reading an article without examining its valuation model is like buying a house without examining the foundation." -- The Valuentum Team Mar 12, 2018
     
        
      The "Luck" and "Randomness" of Index Funds 
  If the year-to-year performance of active funds relative to index funds can be considered “random,” so then is the year-to-year performance of index funds relative to active funds, regardless of fees and expenses. Image shown: page 1 of 14. 
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Image Shown: The performance of Oracle since the March 2009 bottom. Oracle reported in-line fiscal third-quarter results March 19, but its outlook for cloud revenues came in just a bit short relative to consensus expectations. The market seems to be overreacting.