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- When Year-Over-Year Growth Doesn't Apply
- David I. Templeton submits: Over 70% of companies reporting second quarter earnings during this reporting period have beat analyst earnings expectations. Year-over-year top line revenue growth has been anything but nonexistent. And this focus on lack of revenue growth is an often-sighted issue with the bearish market participants. The...
- External links 2009-07-26
- Eye on Stanley Works Earnings, Dividend
- David I. Templeton submits: Stanley Works SWK supplies industrial tools and security related products to a broad range of customers each representing about 1/3rd of company sales: professional, industrial and consumer. Many of the company's products are tied to construction and home improvement related segments of the economy.Earlier this week...
- External links 2009-07-22
- Dividend Increases Are Harder to Come By
- David I. Templeton submits: If dividend increasing stocks were fish in a pond, the catch would be harder to come by. For the first six months of 2009, 65 companies in the S&P 500 Index either cut or suspended their dividend payment. This compares to 20 for the same...
- External links 2009-07-07
- Dividend Contribution by Sector for the S&P 500 Index
- David I. Templeton submits: Probably not much of a surprise, but dividends paid by companies in the financial sector of the S&P 500 Index now account for only 9.08% of the index's total dividends. This is down from nearly 30% for the year ending December 2007. The leading contributor...
- External links 2009-06-02
- S&P Dividend Payers Did Well in April
- David I. Templeton submits: For the month of April, the dividend payers in the S&P 500 Index ($INX) generated a return of 17.87% versus the S&P 500 return of 9.57%. The non payers in the index did outperform the payers by generating a return of 20.21%. Over time though, dividend...
- External links 2009-05-02
- Kellogg and Johnson & Johnson: Dividend Increases Continue
- David I. Templeton submits: Not all dividend paying companies are reducing their dividend or forgoing dividend increases.Today Johnson & Johnson JNJ announced a 6.52% increase in the company's quarterly dividend. The new quarterly dividend is 49 cents per share versus 46 cents per share paid in the same quarter last...
- External links 2009-04-24
- J.M. Smucker: Another Dividend Growth Stock
- David I. Templeton submits: Today, The J. M. Smucker Co. SJM announced a 9.38% increase in the company's quarterly dividend. I am highlighting the stock due to its connection to Procter & Gamble PG. In the 4th quarter of 2008, SJM acquired Procter & Gamble's Folgers coffee business. Around that...
- External links 2009-04-22
- Market Volume Continues Downtrend, Despite Recent Higher Move
- David I. Templeton submits: The market's recent move higher since March 9th has certainly been impressive. A number of technical indicators are supporting this positive trend; however, volume continues in a downtrend. The more pronounced volume decline can be seen on the below chart of the weekly S&P 500 Index...
- External links 2009-04-12
- Home Prices from the 70s: A Good Investment?
- David I. Templeton submits: On an inflation adjusted basis, homes prices have fallen 33% from the peak in 2005. The below chart shows single family home prices are now back in a range that existed from the late 1970s into the mid-1990s. Chart of the Day notes, "...a home...
- External links 2009-03-29
- Contemplating Benjamin Graham's Relevance Today
- David I. Templeton submits: A few years ago, Jason Zweig worked with the publisher of The Intelligent Investor in order to update the classic investment book. Zweig made it clear to the publisher that he would not rewrite any of what Graham had written. Zweig outlines some of the...
- External links 2009-03-23
- Dividend Payers' Respectable Performance in July
- David I. Templeton submits: For the month of July, dividend payers in the S&P 500 Index generated an average return of 9.56%. This compares to the return of the non-payers of 9.76%. The return for the payers is certainly respectable given they have been laggards this year. On a year...
- External links 2009-08-04
- Dover Corporation Increases Dividend
- David I. Templeton submits: Today, Dover Corp. DOV announced it was increasing its 3rd quarter dividend by 4%. The new quarterly dividend increases to 26 cents per share versus 25 cents per share in the same period last year. The estimated payout ratio on the new dividend increases to 57%...
- External links 2009-08-07
- Cooper Industries: Another Co. Fleeing High U.S. Taxes
- David I. Templeton submits: Cooper Industries CBE is being removed from the S&P 500 Index after the close of trading on September 8th. S&P Midcap 400 constituent, Airgas ARG, will replace Cooper.Source: Standard & Poor's PDF CBE becomes another of what is becoming a longer list of U.S. firms that...
- External links 2009-08-31
- Carry Trade Risk: Overstated?
- David I. Templeton submits: In early November Nouriel Roubini wrote in the Financial Times that the Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust. Roubini states the rise in risky asset values: equities, high yield bonds, etc. has been driven by the carry trade with the U.S. Dollar. ...
- External links 2009-11-22
- Relative Valuations of Small Caps Look Stretched
- David I. Templeton submits: Historically, small cap stock returns coming out of a bear market have outperformed large cap stocks. The performance of small caps relative to large caps since the March 9th lows has been no different. The small cap outperformance tends to run for a period of around...
- External links 2009-11-06
- A Low Price-to-Book Stock: Highway Holdings
- David I. Templeton submits: One of the American Association of Individual Investors' better performing stock screens over the long run is the Piotroski Price to Book Screen. Of late the number of companies passing the screen's criteria has been slim to none. The criteria of the screen are: by...
- External links 2009-11-01
- Markets Look Short Term Oversold
- David I. Templeton submits: In looking at the percentage of S&P 500 Index stocks trading above their 50 day moving average, the market looks to be near a short term oversold position. Click to enlarge: by David I. Templeton
- External links 2009-11-01
- Stryker Ups Its Dividend by 50%
- David I. Templeton submits: On Friday Stryker Corp. SYK announced the company's dividend payment would be transitioned to a quarterly dividend from an annual one. In order to accommodate this change, SYK will pay a 10 cent fourth quarter dividend for 2009. This will bring total 2009 dividends to...
- External links 2009-11-01
- Bullish Investor Sentiment at Lowest Level Since July
- David I. Templeton submits: This week's release of bullish investor sentiment by the American Association of Individual Investors shows bullish sentiment fell to 33.65%. This is the lowest level for the bullishness reading since the bullishness reading was reported at 28.68% for the week of July 16, 2009. The eight...
- External links 2009-10-30
- Consumer Staple Co Supervalu Cuts Dividend
- David I. Templeton submits: Last week Dividend Aristocrat Supervalu SVU cut the company's dividend by 50%. SVU becomes the first consumer staples stock to reduce its dividend. The new quarterly dividend is reduced to 8.75% from 17.5%.The company's second quarter earnings came in at 35 cents per share versus...
- External links 2009-10-26
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