Special Report: 10 Greatest “Savings Account Stocks”–#3 Applied Materials
Today, September 25, I’m making Applied Materials (AMAT) my third pick in my Special Report: 10 Greatest “Savings Account Stocks.”
Special Report: 10 Greatest “Savings Account Stocks”–So far #1 Microsoft, #2 Taiwan Semiconductor, #3 Applied Materials, #4 Adobe, #5 Nvidia, #6 Visa, #7 MasterCard, #8 Intuit
You know how a savings account works, right? You deposit money in a bank. The bank uses your deposit to make a loan. Out of its profits, the bank pays you interest. That interest payment is a pittance today. 0.5% if you’re very, very lucky. But the national average is just 0.06%. What I’m calling “savings account stocks” work the same way that a bank savings account does. (Share prices do fluctuate but in the long run I’d argue that these stocks are as safe as a bank savings account.) And they pay an annual return that’s 10X–or much, much more–higher–than the paltry 0.5% now offered by the highest yielding savings accounts. How do these stocks work and why are they so much better than bank savings accounts? You–investors–give the company capital by buying newly issued shares or company bonds. The company invests that cash in making widgets or apps or whatever. And the company returns the bulk of the profits from those investments to the owners of its stock in the form of dividends, stock buybacks, and the appreciation in share price that results from the growth of the company’s business over time. I’m posting the first of my 10 Greatest “Savings Account Stocks” today and my Special Report will name a total of 10 great “savings account stocks” in posts over the next week. Today’s Greatest Savings Account Stock Pick: Microsoft (MSFT). The average annual return on Microsoft shares has been 28% over the last 10 years. Beats that 0.5% on a savings account, no?
Special Report 5 Picks and 5 Hedges for a Falling Market–Thank you market for one more (#2) cheap hedge and one more (#4) stock pick
Today’s installment includes one hedge (on the ViX) and one stock pick (Lam Research.) Now if you’ve been following along with the logic that I’ve laid out in this Special Report, you know that stocks face months of potential volatility around the Fed’s June 16 meeting (What will the Fed say about ending its $120 billion in monthly bond purchases?), the August global central bankers confab in Jackson Hole (Will the Fed use the occasion, as it has done in the past, to indicate a coming change in interest rate policy?), the Fed’s September 22 meeting (Will the Fed be content to say nothing with the next “important” meeting not until December?) and then the central bank’s December 15 meeting.) That’s a large number of occasions that could set the stock market to worrying again. And then, of course, there’s OPEC and the price of oil, the battle over the recently announced Biden budget, the continued logjam on infrastructure spending, and fact that the pandemic is still running at full speed in countries such as India (and who knows what the return of cold weather and forced winter “togetherness” will do to infection rates in the developed economies of the northern hemisphere.) At 16.74 on the VIX, you don’t need a panic to produce a profit on higher volatility. The VIX was at 22.18 on May 19. And then there are the even higher VIX levels of 27.59 on May 12, 28.57 on Marcy 4, and 28.89 on February 25.
Special Report: How to find “real” green stocks–with 10 picks to save the planet: Part 3: My first five (low-hanging fruit) stock picks
Here are my first five stock picks for my Special Report on finding “Real Green” Stocks. These are my “low-hanging fruit” stocks for climate change.
Special Reports: Profit and Protect–What you need to know about stock market stages for 2021–my first two hedges (copper and banks) for Stage #2
Hedges that can pay off on the downside and the upside are the most useful and most valuable. They also tend to be relatively rare. There aren’t a lot of these bets floating around in most markets just waiting for you to snap them up. However, I have found two hedges of just this sort in today’s market that I’m going to recommend to you today. (In this post I’m going to give you some of the nitty gritty numbers that support my recommendation for these two hedges. If you want to see some charts for copper and gold, banks and bonds check out the video I posted today.) I’m going to add these new recommendations to my standing Special Reports post tomorrow.
More stock picks today in my Special Report: Profit and Protect–What you need to know about stock market stages for 2021–Part 1 of 3 and the first 9 stock picks for Stage 1 of 2021
I’m working on Part 1–stocks that will let you profit from the continued rally in the first half of 2021 (I know it doesn’t feel like that over the last few days.) I’ve so far posted 9 picks (out of an eventual 10) in three trends for the next few months. I’ll have pick #10 posted this evening.
Adding Duke Energy to my Dividend Portfolio
Last night, I made Duke Energy (DUK) my second pick in my Special Report: “Dividend Stocks that are beating the Risky Rockets.” Today November 19, I’m adding these shares to my Dividend Portfolio.
Why buying CVS Health now is worth the risk of some market volatility–the 3.57% dividend helps
On October 27 I made CVS Health (CVS) one of my "10 Stocks for a post coronavirus world" and declared that it was the only one of the first group of five stocks that I'd buy now--even though the market looked potentially volatile. I cited the stock's 3.57% dividend as...
Special Report: 10 stocks for a post coronavirus world–first five picks for Group 1
Before the coronavirus pandemic, I used to eat breakfast a couple of times a week at the Manchester Diner a few blocks from my house. Then one day the diner just closed. Common enough in New York City where small local restaurants can go out of business over night...
Adding Puts on American Airlines tomorrow on Trump’s call to end stimulus talks
I've written in my Special Report: Your Investing Guide to the Next 6 Dangerous Months in the Stock Market that I had been waiting for shares of American Airlines (AAL) to move farther above $13 before adding Put options to the Volatility Portfolio. And over the last...
Making first picks long and short in Special Report today
My Special Report "Your Investing Guide for the Next Six Dangerous Stock Market Months with 10 investment moves for a crazy, crazy market" remains a work in progress today, October 5, but I have moved from general economic and political issues to a calendar of what...
Buying target–not a buy–for American Airlines Put options
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