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#14? You Can’t Control The Market

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Image shown: Wall Street Journal front pages from the Financial Crisis — a reminder that an investor cannot control the markets.

Should this be added to the “13 Steps…” piece?

5 Shocking Stock Market Predictions for 2017

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Image Source: Claudia Dea  Valuentum: 2017 Is the Year of Evangeline Adams By Brian Nelson, CFA “Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.” – J.W. Marriott My Inbox Was Overflowing with Kindness Your positive replies to my last email, “Words Cannot Express How I Feel” were simply incredible. My inbox was flooded with so many emails, so many kind words. There were so many that I’m still working through them. If you haven’t received a personal reply, plan on getting one. You’re very important to me. It’s quite possible that I may very well be the luckiest man to have such wonderful … Read more

Podcast: Markets In Motion

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The Valuentum analyst team covers market moving information that is top of mind from consumer staples valuations, the political election cycle, utility valuations, energy resource pricing, biotech considerations, Brexit uncertainty and beyond. ~8 minutes. Tickerized for several consumer staples entities and ETFs, several companies in the energy sector, emerging market vehicles and more.

EVERYTHING DIVIDENDS + 3 TOP IDEAS

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The Valuentum analyst team explains the difference between the adjusted Dividend Cushion ratio and its unadjusted counterpart. The success of the Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio is covered, and Valuentum’s top 3 dividend growth ideas are unveiled. ~13 minutes. If you are unable to view the video below, please select the link here or view the transcript below. Kris Rosemann: Hello and welcome to the Valuentum Securities podcast. My name is Kris Rosemann and with me today is Chris Araos and Brian Nelson, the president of equity research and ETF analysis here at Valuentum, and today we’re going to be discussing the Dividend Cushion ratio, the Dividend Growth Newsletter portfolio, and some of our favorite dividend ideas on the market today. So … Read more

A Kleenex? Consumer Staples Trading At Nosebleed Levels

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Image Source: Alan Levine “The forward 12-month P/E ratio is 17.0. This P/E ratio is based on Thursday’s closing price (2170.06) and forward 12-month EPS ($127.93). The P/E ratio of 17.0 is above the prior 5-year average forward 12-month P/E ratio of 14.6, and above the prior 10-year average forward 12-month P/E ratio of 14.3. It is also above the forward 12-month P/E ratio of 16.6 recorded at the start of the third quarter (June 30).” – FactSet Earnings Insight, July 29, 2016 Kleenex anyone? Because we’re at nosebleed valuations in the consumer staples (XLP) sector! At arguably no time in the history of the stock market have investors been willing to pay so much for each unit of earnings … Read more

What’s Working in Today’s Market?

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By Brian Nelson, CFA As emerging markets around the world suffer from commodity-price-led economic weakness, capital continues to find a safe-haven in US government bonds (TLT, TBT), but for those equity-oriented funds that mandate a fully-invested status, not something we’re particularly advocates of, assets within US equities have favored “lower-beta” utilities (XLU) and consumer staples (XLP) sectors while cyclically-dependent and credit-levered sectors such as the financials (XLF) and materials (XLB) have suffered thus far in 2016. The industrials (XLI) and energy (XLE) sectors have also encountered higher-than-normal selling pressure in the first few weeks of the New Year, as investors evaluate the global economic landscape and what a prolonged period of low energy prices may mean for the lowest quality … Read more

ICYMI: 5 Concerns About Impending Rate Hikes

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The first Fed rate hike in nearly a decade came and went December 16, putting an environment of ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) to an end, a policy that grew out of the Financial Crisis and the depths of the Great Recession late last decade. The Fed had paused plans to hike the federal funds rate for much of 2015 as a result, in our view, of getting a more informed read on the potential implications of emerging market developments–namely dislocations in the local Chinese equity markets (FXI) and recessionary conditions in Brazil (EWZ)–and the stock market crash (SPY) in the US in August that sent equities of some of the most well-known stocks including Apple (AAPL) and General Electric … Read more

Consumer Staples Giants Demonstrate Pricing Strength

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The strengthening US dollar continues to muddy quarterly results for multinational corporations. Coca-Cola (KO), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), and Procter & Gamble (PG) were no exception in the calendar third quarter. The consumer staples giants demonstrated the strength of their scale and pricing power in the quarter, though reported results could not overcome the significant pressure of foreign-exchange headwinds in economies around the globe with varying growth levels. Coca-Cola, Kimberly-Clark, and Procter & Gamble hold some of the most well-known consumer staples brands in the world. Coca-Cola, for one, has perhaps the most-recognizable soft-drink portfolio of any company, Kimberly-Clark boasts a wide range of trusted consumer staples brands from Huggies to Kleenex, and Procter & Gamble has one of the most diverse … Read more

Dividend Increases for the Week Ending February 20

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Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending February 20. 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 Analog Devices (ADI):  $0.40 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.37. Argo Group (AGII): now $0.20 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.18. Autoliv (ALV): now $0.56 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.54. Coca-Cola (KO): now $0.33 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.305. Colgate-Palmolive (CL): now $0.38 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.36. Corrections Corporation of America (CXW): now $0.54 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.51. CVR Partners … Read more