How Some Members Use Valuentum’s Investment Services

By Brian Nelson, CFA Thank you for your membership to Valuentum. We serve a wide variety of investors, including dividend growth investors, value investors, and pure Valuentum investors, among others. Many different types of investors and professionals use our research and financial analysis in a whole host of applications from individual stock-selection to the evaluation of closed-end funds to an overlay in a money-management setting and beyond. We wanted to make sure that you know that, if you’re a dividend growth or income investor, that there are others that use our website to utilize the Valuentum process, fair value estimates and other metrics. Similarly, if you’re a practitioner of the Valuentum system, I wanted to make sure that you are … Read more

DGN Holding Microsoft Continues to Deliver

We continue to like Microsoft in our Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio and think the firm is well positioned to ride out any storm that may arise due to the synchronized slowdown in global economic growth. As a true free cash flow king sitting on a pile of (net) cash, there’s a lot to like about Microsoft’s income growth story. By Callum Turcan On September 18, Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio holding Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) announced it was increasing its per share dividend by 11% on a sequential basis, good for forward-looking yield of 1.4%. Microsoft’s dividend coverage is great, and we give the firm a Dividend Cushion ratio of 4.0x which supports our income growth thesis. The company generated $38.3 billion … Read more