Earnings Brief: BOX, CRM, WMT, TOL, HD/LOW

Image Source: Toll Brothers. Iron Oak at Alamo Creek, Danville, CA.  By Brian Nelson, CFA Let’s cover some trends that may emerge out of the COVID-19 pandemic, including accelerated e-commerce proliferation and its impact on brick-and-mortar giants, as well as an increased likelihood of suburban sprawl that may propel some names while leaving others behind. Box, Inc. According to its website, Box (BOX) is “a leading Cloud Content Management platform that enables organizations to accelerate business processes, power workplace collaboration, and protect their most valuable information, all while working with a best-of-breed enterprise IT stack.” The company’s balance sheet isn’t as clean as we would like given its operating lease liabilities, but it does hold more than $270 million in cash … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending January 4

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending January 4. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week Bank OZK (OZK): now $0.22 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.21. Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN): now $0.19 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.18. Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY): now $0.41 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.40. Owens Corning (OC): now $0.22 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.21. Preferred Bank (PFBC): now $0.30 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.25. Templeton Emerging Markets Income Fund (TEI): now $0.0655 per share … Read more

Podcast: REITs, Interest Rates and Beyond!

The Valuentum analyst team talks REITs and the reasons why REIT investors should pay close attention to changes in Treasury rates. Various secular themes across the data center, healthcare, office, and mall REITs are discussed, and an explanation for the sector’s systematically poor raw, unadjusted Dividend Cushion ratios is covered. ~8 mins. Tickerized for various ETFs and the holdings in the VNQ. Brian Nelson, CFA: In September, REITs were officially broken out from the financial sector to their own sector of the S&P 500 — some 30 or so stocks with $600 billion in market capitalization, or about 3% of the S&P 500. Could this change have marked a peak in performance for equity and mortgage REIT stocks? Are investors … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 27

Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending May 27. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week Bank of Montreal (BMO): now C$0.86 per share quarterly dividend, was C$0.84. Brandywine Realty Trust (BDN): now $0.16 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.15. Bunge (BG): now $0.42 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.38. Cabot (CBT): now $0.30 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.22. Canadian Imperial Bank (CM): now C$1.21 per share quarterly dividend, was C$1.18. Donaldson (DCI): now $0.175 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.17. … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending December 8

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending December 8. The dividend reports of covered firms on this list will be updated shortly with the new information. To access our dividend reports use the ‘Symbol’ search box in our website header. Firms Raising Their Dividends This Week Agree Reality Corporation (ADC): now $0.52 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.50. Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE): now $0.90 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.86. Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (APYRF): now CAD 0.13 per share monthly dividend, was CAD 0.1275. Axis Capital Holdings (AXS): now $0.39 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.38. Bank of Montreal (BMO): now CAD 0.93 per share quarterly dividend, was … Read more

Stock Market Outlook for 2021

By Valuentum Analysts February 8, 2021 2020 was one for the history books. We covered our thoughts and reflections on the past year in our “2020 Won’t Soon Be Forgotten” article (link here), and now we are looking towards the future. Global health authorities should be able to bring an end to the ongoing coronavirus (‘COVID-19’) pandemic sooner than many had expected as several vaccines have already been improved for emergency use and several others appear increasingly likely to get approved. Global vaccine distribution activities are currently underway, and this should allow the world to slowly return to pre-pandemic activities. Before then, immense stimulus measures launched primarily in developed nations should support global economic activities until the public health crisis … Read more