John Dobosz
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The Forbes World’s Most Influential CMOs List: 2023
This annual Forbes list recognizes the 50 Most Influential CMOs in the World. → Read More
A Florida Billionaire’s Investment Playbook
Tom James built Raymond James Financial into a regional brokerage and banking powerhouse, now encompassing $1.25 trillion in assets. After sixty years of successfully navigating bull and bear markets, he shares his investment wisdom. → Read More
Forbes Dividend Investor
Forbes Dividend Investor's stories. → Read More
Wisdom And Courage For A Wall Of Worry From Warren Buffett And Charlie Munger
Berkshire Hathaway’s billionaire chieftains are proof-positive that there is big money to be made buying good companies in tough times. → Read More
Forbes Dividend Investor
Gray Television (GTN +8.4%) provided our best weekly return. The Atlanta, Ga.-based television broadcast company reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings on May 5, and the stock staged a nice rally last week. → Read More
RUTH Gets Bought: Forbes Dividend Investor
By a wide margin, the biggest weekly winner was Ruth’s Hospitality Group (RUTH +32.3%). Darden restaurants is buying the steakhouse operator for $21.50 per share, which is just a few nickels higher than Friday’s closing price. → Read More
Forbes Dividend Investor
Medical device maker Medtronic (MDT 6.1%) reported that the Food and Drug Administration approved its insulin pump, and the stock was our biggest weekly winner. Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD +4.6%) and Verizon Communications (VZ +4.1%) jumped after reporting better than expected earnings. → Read More
Adding Advance Auto Parts (AAP): Forbes Dividend Investor
Priced at 11.2 times year-ahead earnings, Advance Auto Parts trades 33% below its five-year average forward price-earnings ratio of 16.6. If the company earns the expected $10.67 per share this year and trades at 16.6 times earnings, it would be a $177 stock, compared to Friday's close of $121.61. → Read More
Taking A Seat With Steelcase: Forbes Dividend Investor
Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Steelcase (SCS) has been in business since 1912 and designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of furniture, particularly ergonomic task chairs, desks and storage products. It just topped earnings estimates and boosted its profit outlook. → Read More
Forbes Dividend Investor
Last week’s American Association of Individual Investors survey showed 19.2% of members bullish and 48.4% bearish. The 29.2-percentage point difference between bulls and bears is the widest since the week before Christmas as stocks suddenly took flight. → Read More
Dropping TSE, DEI, FMNB; Adding GEF.B, VLGEA: FDI Portfolio
We are removing three stocks from the FDI portfolio: Douglas Emmett (DEI), Trinseo (TSE) and Farmers National Banc Corp. (FMNB). We are adding two former members to the portfolio: container maker Greif (GEF.B) and New Jersey-based grocery chain owner Village Super Market (VLGEA). → Read More
Forbes Dividend Investor
The KRE Regional Bank (KRE) ETF fell 16.1% on the week, and the Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF) fell by 8.5%. It may be cold comfort, but for what it is worth, our four regional banks in the FDI portfolio— ATLO, TRST, NWBI, and FMNB—declined an average of 7.4%. → Read More
Life Lessons And 17 Stock Ideas From Billionaire Value Investor Mario Gabelli
The Bronx-born mutual fund maven explains the value of education and hard work, along with a trove of his best ideas for the current market. → Read More
Forbes Dividend Investor
The Forbes Dividend Investor portfolio’s year-to-date total return is 6.7%. Among dividend-focused funds in 2023, only the VanEck BDC Income (BIZD +10.5%) and WisdomTree US SmallCap Dividend ETF (DES +10.0%) have performed better. → Read More
Thanksgiving Week Brings Gains: Forbes Dividend Investor
The FDI portfolio gained 1.62% this week, and our year-to-date total return is 2.61%. Our best weekly performer was recently-added Coterra Energy (CTRA +3.8%). Also up more than 3% were Los Angeles REIT Douglas Emmett (DEI +3.3%) and packaged food giant Conagra Brands (CAG +3.3%). → Read More
Trinseo Taken Out: Forbes Dividend Investor
Three of our top weekly performers reflect strength in consumer staples stocks: Campbell Soup (CPB +5.3%), Conagra Brands (CAG +4%), and drug giant AbbVie (ABBV +3.2%). We’re quite pleased with the 25.1% return from Trinseo (TSE) over the past 46 days but we are parting with the stock. → Read More
Tapping Coterra Energy For Tuesday Dividend: Forbes Dividend Investor
Last week’s Forbes Dividend Investor portfolio of 17 stocks gained an average of 3.22%, pushing the 2022 total return back into the black by 1.19% year-to-date. Pulling the wagons for us were food, furniture, and plastics. → Read More
FDI Stocks Gain In Down Week: Forbes Dividend Investor
Last week’s FDI portfolio of 17 stocks gained an average of 1.71%, producing the highest weekly total return among the 30 dividend-focused funds we track each week. We benefitted from a surge in shares of plastics outfit Trinseo (TSE +29.5%) and furniture maker Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD +12.5%). → Read More
Riding The Rebound: Forbes Dividend Investor
Our top weekly performer was restaurant chain Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL +13.7%), Ethan Allen Interiors (ETD +12.5%) rewarded us with a massive rally following the furniture maker reporting better-than-expected third-quarter results on Wednesday. → Read More
Dividends And Premium In The Pipeline With Kinder Morgan Buy Write
With an ex-dividend date coming up on Friday for $0.2775 per share, Kinder Morgan looks ripe for a buy write that offers total return potential of almost 7% over the next five weeks. → Read More