My third reason for my disdain is who heads GE. When Jack Welsh left in 2000, he left a massive conglomerate with vast cash reserves,...
My second point is GE's stock repurchase program. GE over the past few years has followed a very aggressive course to repurchase shares. They tout...
Let me start by saying my portfolio is very heavy in GE. Anything with a high cost basis (bought in high school) I sold to harvest the losses and...
These are not really Apps per say but they are great to do some analysis. Google Finance (great for looking back to see what stocks have done...
Very interesting point. I'll look into this analysis (if I'm skilled enough). It was official on Friday, bought shares of Disney. I'm already...
Read your post CFACPAman and believe you missed some of the point of my post but adjusted my analysis hopefully to meet your concerns. You point...
I've looked into buying a rental but never taken the plunge as I'm scared of debt, bad renters, real estate crash, etc., though still interested...
If people have read a few of my posts they'll see I put a lot of weight in dividend reinvestment for dollar cost averaging and building...
Back in February when the President made his State of the Union address, one item he discussed was limiting the size of people's 401k's. One...
Good point Onionman. Up until yesterday I think they were the best performing stock on the DOW. You're explanation also makes a lot of sense....
I think it depends on how the share buyback program is implemented. Most companies use it as financial engineering to inflate stock price. Or they...
Hi Zander. Like you I just joined this site. As a beginner stock investor, the Trade Journals and Stock Tips seems to have a lot of threads to...
Briefly read over a few comments about my plan and wanted to clarify. People have pointed out Social Security income taxes and I rechecked the ACA...
I've never really dabbled with Apple for some of the reasons MNyte mentioned. Apple had many innovative products that carried a "cool factor"....
The stock prices over the last few months, with the exemption of Amazon's, I've found wer pretty easy to understand. By understand I mean I can...
Missed some items on Lyondellbasell. If you look at their EBITDA for the last two quarters, both times it broke company records. This is highly...
Sorry in advance that this is really long winded. I have retirement plan that I've shared with several people though most poo-poo it. Let me know...
As JR mentioned in a previous post, a stock that pays dividends a great choice. It's somewhat like a hybrid bond. It pays a percentage of its...
JR, sounds like you used the proverbial 4% Rule? I think its a great start but you later mentioned one item that needs to be accounted for,...
As everyone has mentioned above, your old company/holding company must keep records of it. However, what they did with it is up in the air. If...
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