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Safeway (SWY) Dividend Stock Analysis
Safeway (SWY) is one of the largest food and drug retailers (better known as supermarkets) in North America. SWY has about 1700 stores mostly located on the West Coast but also in the Southwest, Chicago and Mid-Atlantic. They even have stores in Canada. In order to support all of these stores, SWY has its own network of distribution, manufacturing, and processing facilities. … Read entire article »
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Weekend Link Love: The coming market correction edition
This weekend link love is brought to you by the upcoming market correction. That’s right, you heard it here first – there will be a market correction. Right now, stocks are crazy overvalued. Either company’s fundamentals (earnings, dividends, etc) will have to rise to justify the increased stock prices OR the stock prices will have to drop to align with the fundamentals. I don’t know when this correction will happen, maybe this week, maybe this month, or maybe this year. But it’ll happen eventually. Until then, go check out the following links of awesome. … Read entire article »
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Portfolio Status: May 2013
Continuing with my goal of financial transparency, I’m posting my portfolio as it is at the beginning of May of 2013. … Read entire article »
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Grow Your Career to Achieve Financial Independence Faster: Part 2
Welcome to the next part of our career development series. We’ve already covered the rules of the working world. Now, we’ll begin delving into specific activities that will help grow your career. Specifically, we’ll focus on how to document our achievements and how to ensure that we look good and that people like us. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Career, Reflections
PPL Corporation (PPL) Dividend Stock Analysis
PPL Corporation (PPL) is a holding company for electric utilities in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and the United Kingdom. Though it’s various subsidiaries, PPL is involved in power generation, transmission, and distribution. PPL provides electric service to around 1.4 million customers. In 2011 PPL completed its acquisition of Central Networks, the second largest electric distribution company in the U.K. … Read entire article »
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Blog Update: April 2013
I can’t believe I’ve survived four months of blogging. So let’s take a look back at the month of April and see how things fared for the blog. As usual, I’ll try to make this blog update post short, so that I can focus my time on writing actual content. … Read entire article »
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Weekend Link Love: New Market Highs edition
This weekend link love is brought to you by the crazy market run up. Everything seems to be hitting new highs, which makes my job finding value that much harder. Largely because market performance seems rather disconnected from how the actual economy is doing, or ho much a company is actually earning. PE over 20? Sorry, not interested. … Read entire article »
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What’s your financial independence (retirement) number?
Did you ever see those commercials where people walk around carrying a giant number under their arm? This is supposed to represent their magic retirement number, or how much money they need to have saved up in order to retire comfortably. Apparently, “comfortable” is a very relative term because the numbers these people were toting around seemed to vary by a couple of log orders. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Reflections, Retirement
Grow Your Career to Achieve Financial Independence Faster: Part 1
What does growing your career have to do with achieving financial independence? The short answer is: everything! Even if you’re an early retirement aspirant who wants nothing more than to make a permanent escape from the daily grind, growing your career is something that I would strongly suggest. I’ve already written about how having a higher income will help you save more money, and the more money you save, the faster you can achieve financial independence. Yes, you could concentrate solely on frugality, but you can only reduce your lifestyle down so far before life ceases to be any fun and savings becomes nothing more than a chore. Below, I begin a discussion about a variety of techniques and strategies to help you maximize your career potential. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Career, Reflections
