February 2021

Procter & Gamble (PG) – in business since 1837, paying dividends since 1890, listed on the NYSE since 1891, increasing dividends since the late 1950s. Some folks call dividend investing faddish, but I love Steady Eddies like this one. Pandemics, wars, recessions, booms, busts – Procter just racks up quarter…

Michigan-based Domino’s Pizza (DPZ) is a stock that is very easy to overlook. I say that for two reasons really. One, selling pizza is obviously a fiercely competitive business. Pizza joints are relatively easy to set up, while consumer switching costs are zilch. As a result, regional and independent chains…

Exxon Mobil (XOM) stockholders have been put through the wringer in recent years. COVID and 2020 speak for themselves, but the stock largely went sideways in the years before the pandemic too. Those years include two oil price crashes and a massive bull market in equities, but we can forget…

Farmers & Merchants Bank Of Long Beach (FMBL) was last covered back in May. You may recall this is the ultra-conservative bank that operates around two dozen branches down in Southern California. Anyway, like most banks it had been hit hard by the pandemic. Its stock price had slumped down…