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Target (TGT) Dividend Stock Analysis
Target (T) is a major retailer with approximately 1,800 stores across the US and Canada. Target stores generally cater to middle- and upper-income consumers, carrying a broad assortment of fashion apparel, electronics, home furnishings, household products and other general merchandise. Super-Target stores also carry a full line of groceries. CityTargets are slightly smaller and tailored toward urban markets. Target also offers a credit card to qualified customers. Target has been aggressively building new stores and working to increase … Read entire article »
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Weekend Link Love
Another week, more links. Read the below and consider yourself a bit more educated about investing and finance. … Read entire article »
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Tracking Forward Dividend Payments
In the past I have written about how I am tracking the growth of my investment portfolio as a whole over time. Total returns are great, however as a dividend investor there is another metric that I need to be concerned about – namely dividends. As I’ve mentioned before, it is my desire to build a large enough dividend stream that can cover all of my basic expenses. Once that happens, I’ve achieved financial independence. … Read entire article »
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AT&T (T) Dividend Stock Analysis
AT&T (T) provides telecommunications services to consumers, businesses, and other providers in the United States and internationally. AT&T has three main business segments. 1) Wireless, which includes local voice and data services and roaming services. It also includes the sale of handsets, wireless data cards for PCs, and other accessories. 2) Wireline includes land line phone service, dial-up internet, broadband services, and U-verse (T’s fiber optic service). And the aptly named 3) Other business segment … Read entire article »
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Weekend Link Love
Another light week for linkage. I’m guessing most people are trying to get some last minute summer vacation time in. Regardless, here’s my recommended reading for this weekend. … Read entire article »
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A Brief Primer on Business Development Companies (BDC) Part 1: What are BDCs and why should you invest in them?
Business development companies (BDCs) are companies that specialize in investing in private companies – similar to how private equity or venture capital investors operate. BDCs make loans and often take ownership stakes in their client companies and supply managerial assistance. When the client company makes money, the BDC makes money. Investing in BDCs can be a great way to dip into the exciting venture capital world without having to become an accredited investor and pony … Read entire article »
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Portfolio Status: September 2013
Continuing with my goal of financial transparency, I’m posting my portfolio as it is at the beginning of September of 2013. … Read entire article »
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Happy Labor Day
I would like to wish all of my readers a happy Labor Day. I hope that you’ve been enjoying the 3 day weekend (assuming you’re lucky enough to get a 3 day weekend). In honor of the holiday, and because I’d like to pretend that I was doing something fun over the weekend instead of working, there will not be the usually scheduled stock analysis today. Those will resume next monday. And you shouldn’t be reading blogs on Labor Day. Go out and do some grilling. Drink a lot of beer. Have some fun. Then write about it in the comments later. … Read entire article »
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Weekend Link Love
Labor Day weekend is upon us, which means that almost everyone(*) is on vacation. So today’s link love is short. Enjoy! (*) I’m not on vacation. I’m working a bit over this weekend, because yeah…. I’m kind of pathetic like that and I’m also in charge of a mission critical project with ultra short deadlines. … Read entire article »
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13 Ways to Maximize Your Employee Benefits
Career development and management can rapidly accelerate your path to financial independence, by both increasing your income and decreasing your expenditures. Today, I’d like to cover some of the more and less obvious ways that I (and others) leverage my employer to get far more than just my base salary and bonus. … Read entire article »
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