Today I made Kinder Morgan the second pick in my Special Report 5 Safe Dividend Stocks Paying 6% or More

Today I made Kinder Morgan the second pick in my Special Report 5 Safe Dividend Stocks Paying 6% or More

You might expect this list to be dominated by oil and natural gas producers. You might expect that–but you’d be wrong. Stocks like Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD) and Devon Energy (DVN) certainly pay dividends now high enough t qualify for this list, at 9.86% and 7.50% for the trailing 12 months, respectively, but I don’t think it’s possible to project that level of dividend payout for the 10-year period that I’ve focused on for this strategy. (Which doesn’t mean stocks like these aren’t worth owning on their dividends for the shorter term. In fact, I’m putting together a list of what I’d call current dividend outliers as an extra for this Special Report. These outlier stocks pay very attractive (better than 6% again and sometimes way better than 6%) dividends but the companies don’t have a track record or corporate culture that makes me feel certain about the longevity of this level of payout. Pioneer, for example, pays a 2-part dividend with a core rate and a variable rate depending on revenue and profits. That to me speaks to a company that doesn’t feel able to commit to the current high payout for very long. For a dividend stock with a high payout and a predictably long duration of that level of payout in the energy sector, I’m going to look at pipeline companies, especially those with big exposure to natural gas exports (specifically LNG exports) and the growing CO2 sector.

Repost and October 1 update: Special Report Your Best Investment Strategy for the Next Five Years

Repost and October 1 update: Special Report Your Best Investment Strategy for the Next Five Years

Today, September 5, I’ve gone back through this Special Report to update any parts of my calendar in light of what we’ve learned about the economy, about Federal Reserve interest rate policy, and about the global economy in the last few weeks. This update includes my take on the August jobs report and on recent Fed-speak from the Jackson Hole conference and after. It is different this time. And it’s likely to “be different this time” for the next five years or so. And you need an investment strategy for that period.

Special Report: Own the Future for Pennies with my 10 Best Penny Stock Picks–Second Pick Nel ASA

Special Report: Own the Future for Pennies with my 10 Best Penny Stock Picks–Second Pick Nel ASA

My second pick for my Special Report: Own the Future for Pennies with my 10 Best Penny Stock Picks is Nel (NLLSF), a Norwegian company that produces electrolyzers for turning water into hydrogen and fueling systems for hydrogen vehicles ranging from taxis to trucks. The stock closed at $1.20 a share on July 15. This year the shares have traded as high as $2 on March 9 and as low as $1.00 on July 7. The historic high was $4.14 back on January 4, 2021, back when everything “green energy” was soaring. What are the shares worth? Now and in, say, 2025?

Bonus Special Report: Where to Park Your Cash

Bonus Special Report: Where to Park Your Cash

The advice is sound, very sound. Move part (at least of your portfolio to cash and sit out the worst of this bear market on the sidelines. And since you have that cash in hand, you’ll be ready to snap up bargains when the market has put in a bottom (or near the bottom, or on the way up from the bottom…or something.) But right now that’s easier said than done.

Special Report: Fundamentals are back, Baby! Five fundamental value picks–Pick #1 Taiwan Semiconductor and Pick #2 Applied Materials

Special Report: Fundamentals are back, Baby! Five fundamental value picks–Pick #1 Taiwan Semiconductor and Pick #2 Applied Materials

There are bargains in this market. But how do you find them? Not, clearly, by looking to see what is cheaper than it was. The fear that’s stopping so many investors from loading up the truck now on Nvidia or Disney or Microsoft or Johnson Controls–all stocks that I really, really like for the long term–is that today’s “cheap” stocks will be tomorrow’s even “cheaper” stocks. So it’s time to dig into your investor’s toolbox and dust off those tried and true techniques for using company fundamentals to figure out the value of a stock. And for separating the real values in this sell off from those cheap stocks on the road to being cheaper.

Special Report: Own the Future for Pennies with my 10 Best Penny Stock Picks–Second Pick Nel ASA

Special Report: You Can Make Money Investing in Climate Change: Here’s How With Four Sectors and First 10 of 12 Stock Picks

All you have to do to find the high profits that will make the risk of investing in climate change stocks worthwhile is to focus on sectors (1) where the rewards are solid and the risk is quantifiable, (2) where companies are making profit the old-fashioned way by building out networks and then charging high rents to use them, by (3) carefully targeting a few technologies (wind and solar and hydrogen and electric cars) that will be part of any mix of solutions, and (4) by investing in bottlenecks that are likely to drive prices up (and provide good profits for companies that resolve the bottleneck.

My new Special Report: Your Best Investment Strategy for the Next 5 Years will go up this weekend

Special Report: “An Investor’s Guide to Selling Over the Next Four Months” with just one market “arc” left to post

I think these financial market curves will let you map out the longer stories of Federal Reserve interest rate increases and a potential recession–and then chart the shorter stories of war in the Ukraine, global oil and natural gas crunches, summer Pandemic relief, global food crisis, computer chip shortages (and whatever else you think might be important) under those longer curves. That will let you decide when to buy and sell (and what) in order to profit from short-term stories while preparing your portfolio for the longer arcs.