A Beginners Guide to the Dividend Growth Rate
The following is a guest post from Blaine Watkins at Dividend Geek. Blaine is a voracious reader of investing books and has been educating himself about the subject for decades. His philosophy aligns with much of what I teach, mainly finding stocks at a discount to intrinsic value and reinvesting the growing dividend. One of […]
5 Dividend Investing Success Stories
History can teach us a lot. I’ve shown just how much we can learn from mistakes past with the bankruptcy research, and now I want to flip the script. Let’s examine 5 case studies of the most successful dividend investing stories from the last 2.5 decades. While we can’t expect to follow these guidelines exactly, […]
IFB347: Listener Q&A – Exploring Amazon’s Stake in Rivian and Strategic Investment Insights
Welcome to episode 347 of The Investing For Beginners Podcast! Today, hosts Andrew and Dave discuss key investment topics for all levels of investors. We’ll start by examining the importance of SIPC insurance in protecting investments and the strategy behind holding multiple IRA accounts. We’ll then discuss transitioning from growth to dividend-paying stocks as retirement […]
What is Capital Structure and How is it Related to Credit Health?
Updated 1/5/2024 A company’s capital structure and credit health can drive the company forward regarding revenues, earnings, and cash flows. How the company funds growth goes a long way toward ultimate success. When investors search for investment quality, starting with the story, a balance sheet tells investors about the capital structure and how the company […]
Predicting the Possibility of New Market Entrants Using ROIC
Analyzing the future success of a company involves creating an industry map of current competitors, but should also account for the possibility of new market entrants. This is especially important if analyzing a company who is a “small fish” in a much bigger pond. Of course, industry analysis is so important because of the nature […]
Summary of the John Burr Williams Formula – The Basis of Intrinsic Value
What is the equation for value? Warren Buffett defined it in his 1992 annual shareholder letter. He referenced the formulas in the classic, The Theory of Investment Value by John Burr Williams. This post will present and explain this exact formula published by John Burr Williams and help modernize it in today’s terms. Nobody has […]
What is the Ideal Investing Timeframe? Long vs Short!
Coming out of the right corner, we have the newcomer, the up and coming, short-term investments, all set to face the current heavyweight champion of the world, long-term investments! This is going to be an epic battle for the ages, so who is going to win – long vs short! Everyone knows that investing for […]
The H-Model Discovered – CFA Level 2
As a type of Dividend Discount Model (DDM), the H-Model is a valuation tool that has its core methodology based on discounted cash flows, which are approximated here with dividends. The end result is a Net Present Value (NPV) calculation of the future dividends of the company. The H-Model is a popular variation of the […]
IFB65: Listener Q&A: Stop Loss, Fractional Shares & Tesla
Welcome to Investing for Beginners podcast this is episode 65. Tonight Andrew and I are going to answer some readers’ questions, we’ve gotten some fantastic questions over the last few weeks and Andrew and I wanted to take a few minutes to go ahead and answer those. I’m going to go ahead and start off […]
IFB12: The Validity of Scuttlebutt Investing and Qualitative Analysis
In today’s session, we are going to talk about quantitative versus qualitative analysis of stocks, this should be an interesting go around. I know how I feel about this, but I am not sure how Andrew feels about this, but I have an idea, but I think this could be interesting. Phil Fisher was the […]
