Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway outperformed the S&P 500 by 11.1% per year from 1965-2015, generating an overall gain of 1,598,284% compared to the market’s total return...
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May 18 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
That’s when Warren Buffett began building a position in International Business Machines Corp (IBM).
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May 18 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis, Tech
AFLAC Incorporated (NYSE:AFL) is one of only 2 insurance stocks in the Dividend Aristocrats Index.
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May 17 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
Once I realized the benefits of dividend growth investing from an assortment of blogs, Sure Dividend being one of my favorites, I decided I too would become a dividend growth...
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May 17 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
The company scores well for Dividend Safety and Dividend Growth, has paid dividends every year since 1923, generates excellent free cash flow, and has a relatively high dividend...
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May 15 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
Wexford Capital LP is an investment firm with $2.7 billion of assets under management founded by Charles Davidson and Joseph Jacobs in 1994.
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May 14 - Commodities, Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
I was fortunate enough to start learning about personal finance in my early twenties as I started my career in 2009.
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May 14 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
It is generally believed that insider buying and selling metrics can provide clues about companies’ future stock price direction.
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May 13 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Royce & Associates LP, a widely-known small-cap equity specialist, was founded by highly-regarded mutual fund manager Charles M. Royce in 1972.
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May 13 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
A handful pay their dividends semi-annually while a there is a larger population of monthly dividend stocks.
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May 12 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
Most market participants usually perceive insider buying much more informative and important than insider selling, and rightly so.
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May 11 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Pzena Investment Management is a value-oriented investment management firm founded by Richard S. Pzena in 1995.
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May 11 - Commodities, Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Among the smart money investors tracked by Insider Monkey, billionaire Ken Fisher's Fisher Asset Management owns 3.64 million shares of Chevron Corporation as of the end of March...
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May 10 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
Quarterly 13F filings are required to be submitted with the U.S.
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May 10 - Commodities, Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Last week’s dollar value of insider purchases decreased significantly from the massive volume of insider buying recorded during the week prior to that, which was primarily driven...
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May 9 - Commodities, Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Jeffrey Furber's AEW Capital Management focuses on real estate and its latest 13F filing disclosed an equity portfolio worth $4.87 billion, 92% of which was allocated to the ...
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May 7 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News
The ten S&P 500 companies that have increased their dividend payout by the highest average annual rate during the last five years are analyzed in this article.
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May 6 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
Archer-Daniels-Midland, one of the world’s largest agricultural processors and food ingredient providers, is an excellent candidate to be included in diversified large-cap dividend...
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May 6 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
With an increase in the usage of equity-based compensation, company executives and Board members sell shares for a variety of reasons beyond just their companies’ current developments...
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May 6 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
What exactly are financial ratios? For the purposes of this article, we define financial ratios as any number or calculation used by dividend investors to better understand an...
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May 5 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
Some retail investors track insider trading behavior as part of their broader stock selection and analysis process, and rightly so.
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May 5 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Insider Monkey was in attendance at the Next Wave Sohn Conference in New York today and we have all the details from Jeffrey Smith's presentation, in which the head of Starboard...
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May 4 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis
Although much research concludes that securities purchases on the part of insiders tend to beat broader market benchmarks by a wide margin, there is little fresh evidence showing...
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May 4 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
There are various reasons why corporate insiders might sell shares of their own companies.
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May 4 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
The aggregate dollar value of insider buying in April was lower than the value recorded in any other month in the past year or so, mainly owing to the first-quarter earnings season...
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May 3 - Commodities, Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
The reasoning is simple: dividend stocks with a track record of raising dividends for many years represent strong businesses with wide economic moats, capable management teams...
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April 30 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
There aren’t so many things that can spur more anxiety among investors than witnessing their high-conviction stock picks register massive insider selling.
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April 29 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Does it make sense to track insider selling activity? It depends! (One of the most commonly used answers in economics).
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April 28 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
There is much more detail to Warren Buffett’s investment philosophy than the quote above provides.
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April 26 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway outperformed the S&P 500 by 11.1% per year from 1965-2015, generating an overall gain of 1,598,284% compared to the market’s total return...
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April 26 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
National-Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV) surprised many dividend investors with its decision to slash its dividend by 90% on April 11.
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April 26 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
Falling crop prices have caused demand to drop sharply for Deere’s tractors and combines, but the best time to buy high quality dividend stocks is usually during periods of ...
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April 26 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
The investment community is well-aware that corporate insiders can sell shares in their own companies for a wide variety of reasons, so insider trading watchers should mostly ...
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April 26 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Although no one knows how many investors pay close attention to insider trading behavior when making investment decisions, there is good reason to believe that a high number of...
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April 25 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Billionaire Daniel S. Loeb founded activist hedge fund Third Point LLC in 1995.
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April 24 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Sprott Asset Management is a Toronto-based alternative asset manager founded by billionaire Eric Sprott, a widely-knowninvestor usually bullish on the resource sector, particularly...
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April 23 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Murray Stahl founded Horizon Asset Management LLC, an investment firm under the umbrella of Horizon Kinetics LLC, in 1994. Mr.
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April 23 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
According to fresh data from CNBC, the dollar value of all insider purchases in April has been the lowest in the past 11 months or so.
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April 22 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Most insider trading watchers believe that insider buying is much more informative than insider selling, and rightly so.
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April 20 - Commodities, Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Yet for the long-term net buyer, it’s lower prices that can provide the ultimate benefit.
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April 19 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
During the last three months of 2015, the number of funds long Omega Healthcare Investors (among those tracked by Insider Monkey) slid to nine from 14, while the total value of...
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April 19 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
It doesn’t have that quality aspect of your typical well-known dividend growth company. It’s not like a Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) or PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP).
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April 19 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is on track to reach a new all-time high after registering the worst five-day start to a year in its history.
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April 18 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
Founded in 1981, Boston-based AEW Capital Management is one of the leading real estate funds on the Street today.
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April 16 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News
Some analysts and investors believe that value investing will achieve a comeback in the foreseeable future, as growth stocks have outperformed value stocks by a wide margin in...
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April 15 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Officers and directors of publicly-traded companies have two means of buying or selling their companies’ shares: on the open market, or via pre-arranged trading plans, which...
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April 14 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News
When you’re talking about dividend paying companies (and specifically dividend growth), you’re likely to think about the normal host of characters – The Coca-Cola Co's (...
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April 13 - Dividend Stocks, News, Stock Analysis
Insider trading activity has been relatively weak this week, as the first quarter earnings season kicked off on Monday.
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April 13 - Dividend Stocks, Insider Trading, News