Texas Instruments (TXN): Strong Performance, but Trading at a Premium

The semiconductor sector has had a crazy 2023. Texas Instruments is the leader of the pact and one of the best in the industry.  The company is off to  strong start in 2023. While the market is tanking, Texas Instruments is rising. In this economic environment, it is always great to look at strong dividend growth stocks to see if they are undervalued and a stock to buy despite the company’s strong start. It is time to run Texas Instruments through the Dividend Diplomats Dividend Stock Screener to determine if they are a stock to buy today!

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Banks Failing, Interest Rates Rising – Keep Buying Assets

We are in full-fledged crisis mode in the United States and in the World it appears.  Given the failures already of Silvergate, Silicon Valley and Signature, Credit Suisse is now being bought out by UBS within the European countries.

This is not just a U.S. problem.  The global pandemic from COVID-19 was just that, a global problem.  The contagion, as they are calling it, is everywhere.  That’s what happens when trillions of dollars of money is released out to the public and receivers banked it and the bankers invested it.  Invested into long-term, low-rate assets. Continue reading

Increasing my Investments into Vanguard ETFs – 2023 Investing

Here we are.  It’s 2023 and I experienced my first dividend cut just a meager 53 days into the year.  Intel (INTC) cut their dividend recently and it had me thinking long and hard about my investing strategy over the last 13 years.

Everything has worked just fine 95% of the time.  The other 5%, like dividend cuts or even mergers, are usually not overly material or significant, but they still are frustrating to a T.  No, not AT&T – T, but to a “t”.  A lesson is learned each time.  This time it was about not falling for an iconic company and listening to a management statement. Continue reading