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

June Dividend Growth Newsletter & Intrinsic Value Investing

“But how, you will ask, does one decide what [stocks are] “attractive”? Most analysts feel they must choose between two approaches customarily thought to be in opposition: “value” and “growth,”…We view that as fuzzy thinking…Growth is always a component of value [and] the very term “value investing” is redundant.“  —                — Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway annual report, 1992 — By Brian Nelson, CFA — To add our new options commentary to your membership, please register here ($500/year). — Hi everyone!  — We remain unequivocally bullish on the markets and intrinsic value investing. We believe value today rests within companies that have strong net cash positions (all cash less short- and long-term debt) and solid expected future free cash flows … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 17

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending May 17. 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 Adams Resources (AE): now $0.24 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.22. Business First Bancshares (BFST): now $0.10 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.08. Chubb (CB): now $0.75 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.73. CoreSite Realty (COR): now $1.22 per share quarterly dividend, was $1.03. Curtiss-Wright (CW): now $0.17 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.15. Extended Stay America (STAY): now $0.23 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.22. … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 25

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending May 25. 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 American Tower (AMT): now $0.77 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.75. Apollo Tactical Income Fund (AIF): now $0.104 per share monthly dividend, was $0.10. B&G Foods (BGS): now $0.475 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.465. Bunge (BG): now $0.50 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.46. CoreSite Realty (COR): now $1.03 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.98. Cracker Barrel (CBRL): now $1.25 per share quarterly dividend, was … Read more

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week Ending May 26

Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending May 26. 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 Advanced Drainage Systems (WMS): now $0.07 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.06. Agree Realty (ADC): now $0.505 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.495. Bank of Montreal (BMO): now CAD 0.90 per share quarterly dividend, was CAD 0.88. Bunge (BG): now $0.46 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.42. China Yuchai (CYD): now $0.90 per share annual dividend, was $0.85. Clipper Realty (CLPR): now $0.095 per share quarterly … 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 20

Below we provide a list of firms that raised/lowered their dividends during the week ending May 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 Blue Hills Bancorp (BHBK): now $0.03 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.02. Burberry Group Plc ADR (BURBY): now £37 per share annual dividend, was £35.2 Carriage (CSV): now $0.05 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.025. Cato (CATO): now $0.33 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.30. Chubb (CB): now $0.69 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.67. Cineplex (CPXGF): now C$0.135 per share monthly dividend, was C$0.13. Clorox … 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

Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week September 17

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending September 17. 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 AFC Gamma (AFCG): now $0.43 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.38. AG Mortgage Investment Trust (MITT): now $0.21 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.07. American Financial Group (AFG): now $4.00 per share special dividend, was $2.24. American Tower (AMT): now $1.31 per share quarterly dividend, was $1.27. BIOQUAL (BIOQ): now $1.25 per share annual dividend, was $1.10. BRT Apartments (BRT): now $0.23 per share quarterly dividend, … Read more