My weekly review of how my portfolios did this bumpy week. You can review my Trading account, which is my aggressive portfolio where I buy individual stocks, my ROTH IRA retirement account which is my dividend investing portfolio (to which I am focusing the most right now) and my Lending Club account, P2P lending investment which is growing very well.
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Stocks fall after disappointing Cisco (CSCO) earnings and jobless data for the third day and extending loss by 1% shortly after opening. If the markets close with this drop on high volume, the rally will be over.
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During this volatile market we can see a lot of stocks being driven by the market up and down. Many with no particular reason or based on short term look. Recently I was reviewing Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) because it was running up and down and today it again loses ground quite a lot. As a dividend investor I am trying to ignore these days and stick with the stock, hold it and if I can get some money buy more. But I need an assurance that I am holding the right stock. So I checked the overall picture of this stock and its chart with splits and I could see steady growth in value. Combined with roughly 45 years of growing dividend I do not see an issue to hold this stock.
This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net May 17, 2010.
Linked here is a detailed quantitative analysis of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ). Below are some highlights from the above linked analysis:
Company Description: Johnson & Johnson engages in the manufacture and sale of various products in the health care field worldwide.
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Conclusion: JNJ earned one Star in the Fair Value section, earned three Stars in the Dividend Analytical Data section and earned one Star in the Dividend Income vs. MMA section for a total of five Stars. This quantitatively ranks JNJ as a 5 Star-Strong Buy (as of May 17, 2010).
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Shareholders count on dividends more than ever these days to protect their portfolios against volatile markets. Companies hoarding cash since the start of the recession are beginning to pass on some of it to their shareholders in the form of increased dividends, but it’s unlikely to match the boom of a decade ago.
Moody’s Investors Service estimates that US nonfinancial corporations were sitting on $1.84 trillion in cash in the first quarter of this year—a 27-percent increase from early 2007.
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Stocks retreat as Fed grows more cautious. Yea, who else pays attention what Fed feels these days? As usually, investors are running up and down when panicking or being greedy…
Stocks and interest rates are tumbling with investors worldwide growing concerned about the health of the U.S. economy after the Federal Reserve said the recovery was slowing down. We may expect this month to be a bit bumpy.
I am changing the status of the market into “Under pressure” since the morning’s drop is quite substantial and may end this rally. Let’s see a few next days.
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I am stunned how easy it is to invest with Lending Club. However, I do not say it is easy money, so do nothing when investing with Lending Club. An investor still should do the due diligent work, study the loans, diversify as much as possible and reinvest. If you plan to throw your money in the Lending Club account, be greedy and act stupid way, you probably lose. I am trying to find as many information as possible about how to invest better using this investing vehicle to maximize my return and I am glad I was able to find articles out there which confirmed that my strategy is going in the right direction.
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Investors freaking out based on Bloomberg’s Boo-boo news about AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) who announced development of their own mobile payment processing expecting to displace Visa’s (V) debit cards and thus threatening Visa and Mastercard (MA) and who were then selling those stocks – now be ready to buy them back. AT&T and Verizon are late in their effort.
Visa Europe has announced today the launch of In2Pay, a system which uses a microSD card inside a mobile phone to make transactions. The contactless payment system uses near field communications (NFC) technology via a microSD card called In2Pay, developed by DeviceFidelity. Not many mobiles have NFC technology built-in, which would allow contactless mobile phone payments, but the majority of smartphones, iPhones excluded, include microSD slots.
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Another weekly review of my investing effort. You can review how my portfolios were doing this last week, review my Trading account, which is my aggressive portfolio where I buy individual stocks, my ROTH IRA retirement account which is my dividend investing portfolio (to which I am focusing the most right now) and my Lending Club account, P2P lending investment which is growing very well.
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The Bloomberg article says that AT&T and Verizon are “planning a venture plan” that is to displace credit and debit cards with smartphones, and such plan is posing a new threat to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. The trial would be the carriers’ biggest effort to spur mobile payments in the U.S. and supplant more than 1 billion plastic cards in American wallets. The system would allow consumers to pay at stores with a contactless wave of a smartphone. Oh, really?
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Recently Visa (V) was pushed down several times and mostly because of boo news. Somebody is clearly manipulating the stock. Somebody is scared of Visas prospect. Why? Who knows and who cares. The best of all this is, that Visa is still a 100 dollars stock. Buying at these levels we experience today provide you with a chance to make some 40% profit within a year.
I searched on the Internet for articles to find out more about this stock and all I could ever find strengthen my own belief in this stock. Even more I am convinced to hold or buy more (but now I do not have enough funds to buy more).
Who’s Afraid Of Visa?: Get In on Today’s Market Action!
Visa had a blow out quarter and will continue to do so, –DEBIT IS KING and will remain King. Investing in Visa is like investing in money—-If you believe people will still be using money to buy things, then Visa is a winner because DEBIT IS Money–which is why Transaction volume was up 14% this past quarter–And for the rest of the year? Expect it to rise past 20%. And get this–Payment volume was up 27%in the euro region, and as Ben Thomas over at Real Money.com said that ”looks nice”. It sure does Ben. But why is the Stock down over 4% today? Well, the big reason is, as Settembrini once told me–
–” Most stock market prognostics are bound up with everything that is despicable, fultile,…..They are sprits who see only the minute, day to day facts, and who are utterly incapable of stimulating great universal ideas, of understanding the clashes and fusions of politics, or the soaring of the bright, flaming ideal and it’s effects on individuals or whole peoples, into the long term heights.”
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