Occasionally on the site I like to profile real life dividend millionaires. The cases that I find most interesting are those drawn from the lower and middle-income brackets: folks like Margaret Dickson, Paul Navone, Ronald Read and Anne Scheiber. The case of Agnes Plumb is a slightly different one, but before I get on to that let’s start with some…

21st Century Fox (NASDAQ: FOX) shareholders have had a brilliant seven months or so. It started back in December when Disney agreed to buy a whole bunch of assets from Fox for over $50 billion. These included the TV and movie studios as well as certain cable channels like FX and the regional Fox Sports Networks. In total, said assets…

It has been a very quiet few years for Walt Disney’s (NYSE: DIS) share price. In fact, Disney shares were changing hands for somewhere between $110 and $115 each at this point back in 2015. Right now they are going for around $106.25. Chuck in roughly $4.50 per share paid out as cash dividends in the intervening period, and we…

Last week was a big one for shareholders of AT&T (NYSE: T). After what seemed like an eternity, the telecommunications behemoth finally got permission to close on its purchase of media giant Time Warner. Shareholders of the latter will receive $53.75 in cash plus 1.437 shares of AT&T for every Time Warner share they own. As for AT&T shareholders, they…

There are three characteristics that, to me at least, constitute the perfect business. The first would be consistently high profitability metrics, ideally demonstrated over a period of decades spanning multiple business cycles. The second would be a large runway for future earnings growth. The final one would be a timeless business model immune from changing technological and societal trends. I think…

It is very difficult to discuss Exxon Mobil’s (NYSE:XOM) business in any detail in a single article. The sheer scale of the company’s operations make it next to impossible to do that. We’re talking about an enterprise that, in its most recent financial quarter, reported total assets worth around $350 billion on its balance sheet. It produces four million barrels…

In theory midstream players such as Magellan Midstream Partners (NYSE: MMP) should be great for conservative minded folks seeking income. You typically get ownership of a bunch of transport and storage assets that charge fees based on the volume of commodities like crude oil, natural gas and refined products such as gasoline. The cash flow is stable and, in theory,…

Food stocks such as Kraft Heinz have had a tough time of it in recent months. There is a bunch of negative sentiment in the sector, most of which boils down to three main issues. The first is that consumers, particularly younger ones, are increasingly turning away from processed foods. The second is that supermarkets are laying on increased competition…