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Earnings Not So Hot, High Yield Dividend Newsletter Archives

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No change to newsletter portfolios. By Brian Nelson, CFA Against a backdrop of US-China trade tensions, a Fed that continues to balance the need to hike rates with caution against purposefully and meaningfully inverting the yield curve, US GDP growth humming along at 2%-3%, and news from Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, who says something big is in store for tonight. Incidentally, he changed his Twitter name to Elon Tusk. Was it to match our typo yesterday? Elon – if you’re listening, give us a shout out! We love Tesla’s future expected free cash flow! Just some housekeeping items before we get started. For our High Yield Dividend Newsletter members and our Exclusive members, we do not house the archived … Read more

7 Hidden Dividend Aristocrats in Industrials

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Image notes: The price-to-fair value ratio shows the relationship between the company’s stock price and our discounted cash-flow derived fair value estimate. Price is what you pay for the stock, while value is what you get. Price and fair value seldom equal. The savvy investor seeks to find stocks whose price is far below an informed forward-looking cash-flow-based fair value estimate of their intrinsic value. The Dividend Cushion ratio is a proprietary Valuentum measure that drives our assessment of the company’s Dividend Safety rating. The forward-looking measure assesses dividend coverage via the cash characteristics of the business. The Dividend Cushion is a ratio that sums the existing net cash (total cash less total long-term debt) a company has on hand … Read more