Hold on tight everyone on this ride — the week has brought a tremendous downturn, which really, the week has brought us tremendous new opportunities! The S&P 500 is down 2.43% since Monday’s close and even more so on a few stocks I’m going to talk about… Continue reading
Category Archives: Stock Analysis
Mattel (MAT) Stock Analysis
Do you know what Hot Wheels, Matchbox Cars, Barbie, Polly Pocket and American Girl have in common? They are all owned by a company called Mattel (MAT) and I am here to dive into this playful stock to see what bin of hopefully positive findings come from it. They are one of the world’s most renowned toy products seller and their portfolio is very expansive. Let’s take a look…
Kraft Stock Analysis
Kraft Foods Group (KRFT) is one of the smaller holdings in my portfolio. I purchased my initial position in the company several months after the spin-off. A year and a half later, I wanted to perform an updated stock to assess whether I should maintain my current position or purchase additional shares. It was time to run Kraft through the Dividend Diplomats Stock Screener!
Aflac (AFL) Stock Analysis
Aflac (AFL) is one of the dividend aristocrats and have taken a small hit year-to-date of about 6% to their stock price. The one tough thing to swallow is it’s heavy operations in Japan and then the remaining portion in US. This may cause currency translation fluctuations, as well as having too many of your eggs in 1/few baskets. Let’s dive into this stock, as I actually have a position in them already, they are a nice aristocrat (increasing dividends for 25+ years) and are one of few stocks to be on the downside Year-To-Date.
FirstEnergy (FE), AEP (AEP), and Dominion (D) Stock Analysis
I am getting ready to move into a new apartment on July 1st. It is going to start the beginning of an amazing new chapter in my life. I cannot wait. One of the pre-move chores is to set up your new place’s utilities. I shopped the price around to eventually settled on the lowest cost provide. This got me thinking, why not spend some time and run each of the companies I shopped around through the Dividend Diplomats Stock Screener? Continue reading to see how FirstEnergy (Ticker: FE), AEP (Ticker: AEP) and Dominion Resources (Ticker: D) measure up against each other.
Target Stock Analysis
Target has obviously been a part of some very intense headlines this year – Data breach on credit cards, as well as CEO stepping down from the company. I have actually had this analysis in draft form and then last Tuesday – provided even more great news for me to hold off on publishing the article. Here is my Target (TGT) stock analysis and my decision to purchase or not to purchase:
Stock Analysis – SBSI & OABC
A few days ago, I found myself at Dividend Mantra’s blog reading about stocks on his watch list and became very enthralled at his attention to the financial institution industry and a stock within there that he is observing. The financial institution industry has been ever-so changing over the last 5-6 years, with the financial crisis, increased transparency, regulation, increases of capital, consolidation of companies/institutions and the dramatic line of – “Acquire or become Acquired” mindset over the last 2 years – it has been a very exciting time for smaller community banks. I’m going to perform an evaluation of Southside Bancshares (SBSI) and OmniAmerican Bancorp (OABC), as SBSI is acquiring OABC. See below: Continue reading