As I type, authorities in China have placed tens of millions of people in a de-facto state of lockdown in an effort to contain the spread of a novel coronavirus. Shops have been shuttered, public transportation cancelled and even Disneyland in Shanghai has been closed. The price of oil has also been hit hard, which is hardly surprising given the…

Back in the summer of 2010 then-POTUS Barack Obama signed the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. Though certain elements have since been rolled back by now-POTUS Donald Trump, the stress tests mandated by Dodd-Frank are still ongoing. If you are ever worried about investing in a large US bank stock because of what happened in…

There are a handful of stocks I follow that are almost impossible to justify in terms of valuation. Think York Water Company for instance – a regional utility stock that has the distinction of racking up over two hundred years of consecutive dividend payments. It trades for 45x net earnings! Another company that looks like it qualifies for that basket…

For a lot of folks, the experience of Citigroup (C) during the global financial crisis is enough to automatically disqualify the bank as a serious long-term investment proposition. Unfortunately, it is just the nature of things that buying a bank stock means accepting the fact that it is easier for a management team to blow up a Citigroup than it…

The founder of the ‘Dogs of the Dow’ value investing strategy posited that the reason the strategy works is because stodgy blue chips have more room to navigate their issues compared to smaller peers. In the meantime you typically get to pick up a higher than usual dividend yield (because the stock price has been beaten down or gone sideways…

So, less than a couple of months after deciding to mix things up on the site I’ll be making some more changes! The posts covering our dividend millionaires and other general investing articles won’t change – at the moment you can find a link to those articles at the top of the website. I’m going through the article archive, slowly…