Sometimes You Just Have to be Patient

This global fintech leader provides investor communications and technology-driven solutions to banks, broker-dealers, mutual funds and corporate issuers. Long-term shareholders have generated significant returns but its current valuation appears to be somewhat stretched. Summary This company has doubled its revenue since being spun off as a separate legal entity in 2007. Growth has been such [...]

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Broadridge – Sometimes You Just Have to be Patient

Summary This company has doubled its revenue since being spun off as a separate legal entity in 2007. Growth has been such that within a span of 11 years this company has reached the stage where it recently became a member of the S&P500 (SPY). There is not much variance between Free Cash Flow and [...]

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Price is What You Pay. Value is What You Get.

This company has increased its dividend for 35 consecutive years and its total return to shareholders over the 10 year period ending December 31, 2017, including reinvested dividends, was 80.2%. An investor who acquired 100 shares for $1,110 when the company was founded in 1955 and never sold them would now have 375,960 shares. Summary [...]

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Aflac – Price is What You Pay. Value is What You Get.

Summary This company has increased its dividend for 35 consecutive years. An investor who acquired 100 shares for $1,110 when the company was founded in 1955 and never sold them you would now have 375,960 shares. The company’s total return to shareholders over the 10 year period ending December 31, 2017, including reinvested dividends, was [...]

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A Long-Term Wealth Creation Machine

This company's Cash Return on Investment (‘CRI’) key operating metric is used to measure the performance and value of the company's operating businesses and potential acquisitions. By applying CRI principles throughout the organization, Roper can focus investment on areas that will increase shareholder value, drive cash flow growth, and minimize physical assets. Summary The company’s [...]

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Roper Technologies – Excellent Company but Too Richly Valued

Summary The company’s total investment return since going public in 1992 grossly exceeds that of the S&P 500. Consistently increases its dividend but is more of a growth stock than an income stock. Unique business strategy enables it to generate free cash flow that is fairly similar to operating cash flow. Business model now allows [...]

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Alimentation Couche-Tard – A Canadian Success Story

Summary Alimentation Couche-Tard released its Q4 and FY2018 results at the close of business July 9th. On March 22nd, I wrote that the pullback in the company’s stock price presented investors with a window in which to acquire shares in the world’s 2nd largest convenience store operator at an attractive valuation. The company is now [...]

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The Importance of a Power of Attorney

A Power of Attorney for Property and a Power of Attorney for Personal Care are critical documents yet so many people never put them in place. This article touches upon their importance and why they should be kept current.   I strongly suspect you have heard or read about an individual who is no longer [...]

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Get Paid to Wait for This Undervalued Company to Appreciate in Value

This publicly listed partnership generates substantial cash returns. The units are currently undervalued but you receive a yield of ~6.65% while you patiently wait for the stock price to more accurately reflect the value of the underlying assets. Summary Making money in equities involves finding well managed companies that are undervalued. As at the end [...]

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Get Paid to Wait for This Undervalued Company to Appreciate in Value

Summary Making money in equities involves finding well managed companies that are undervalued. As at the end of Q1 2018, this entity had a ‘unitholder equity per unit’ value roughly 1.6xs that of the market price per unit. Sometimes companies can remain undervalued for extended periods, and therefore, an attractive and sustainable dividend yield allows [...]

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