Dividend Increases/Decreases for the Week of September 5

Below we provide a list of firms that raised their dividends during the week ending September 5. 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                          Brady (BRC): now $0.245 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.240. BrilliA Inc (BRIA): now $0.133 per share quarterly dividend. Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited PFD SHS SER G (FFH.PR.G:CA): now CAD 0.1852 per share quarterly dividend, was CAD 0.1851. FFW (FFWC): now $0.31 per share quarterly dividend, was $0.30. MFA Financial Cum Red PFD Shares Series C (MFA.PR.C): now $0.6395 per share quarterly dividend, was … Read more

ALERT: Bull Raids, Short Squeezes and Highly Unusual Market Activity

We are putting short investors on high alert! By Brian Nelson, CFA In late 2018, Valuentum published Value Trap, a book that warned to all that would heed its warning that a collapse in the traditional quant value factor was coming and that excessive volatility in the markets caused by price-agnostic trading–or those that aren’t paying attention to fair value estimate calculations–would only build and build to eventually reach extreme and irrational levels. The book, while hugely successful winning award after award, was largely ignored by the media, despite our best efforts to get the word out. Now, the chickens are coming home to roost. Image Shown: The book Value Trap warned about the impending collapse of the value factor, … Read more