I invite you to read my Genuine Parts Company – A Slightly Overvalued Dividend King article at Dividend of Stocks. Genuine Parts Company (GPC) is a distributor of automotive replacement parts and industrial parts and materials operates in the United States, Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, [...]
Fresenius Medical Care: A Slightly Undervalued Global Leader is a Guest Post provided by Value of Stocks, an independent financial information provider focused on analyzing stocks with a value investing approach. Its main goal is to help investors make better investment decisions. Global Leader Overview In this article, I provide my reasons for why I [...]
Introduction A Dividend Champion, defined as a company that has increased its dividend at least 25 consecutive years regardless of whether it is included in the S&P 500 or not, can be a good potential investment to create long-term wealth. Investors, however, must not lose sight of the company's valuation when acquiring shares. In this [...]
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) operates through three segments: Exchanges, Fixed Income and Data Services, and Mortgage Technology. It owns and operates regulated exchanges such as the NYSE, clearing houses, and listings venues for commodity, financial, fixed income, and equity markets in the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Singapore, Israel, and Canada. In [...]
This is my February 2021 FFJ Portfolio report. The portfolio was created in January 2017 for the purpose of demonstrating how investing in high quality companies with competitive advantages and with a record of consistently increasing dividends can assist investors in reaching their long-term financial goals without the need to speculate or to chase dividend [...]
Thomson Reuters Corporation (TRI) is a leading provider of business information services whose products include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals. Woodbridge Company Limited, a Canadian private holding company based in Toronto, Ontario which is the primary investment vehicle for members of the family of the late Roy [...]
In recent articles (here and here) I disclosed that I had written covered calls on Chevron Corporation (CVX) and Nike, Inc. (NKE) in an effort to merely skim additional income. The NKE covered calls are working out so far but they expire March 19th and anything can happen between now and expiry (especially [...]
PepsiCo Inc. (PEP) is a leading global food and beverage company with a complementary portfolio of brands, including Frito-Lay, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Quaker and Tropicana. Through its operations, authorized bottlers, contract manufacturers and other third parties, PEP makes, markets, distributes and sells a wide variety of convenient beverages, foods and snacks, serving customers and consumers in [...]
Heico Corporation (HEI) is a successful and growing technology-driven aerospace, industrial, defense and electronics company. Business is comprised of two operating segments: Flight Support Group (FSG) and Electronic Technologies Group (ETG). HEI's performance has been negatively impacted in recent quarters because of the challenges its FSG customer base is experiencing due to the the COVID-19 [...]
Danaher Corporation (DHR) has completed several acquisitions and divestitures over the years and now operates 3 business segments: diagnostics, life sciences, and environmental and applied solutions. DHR consists of ~69 associates employed at 20+ operating companies and it has research & development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service and administrative facilities located in 60+ countries. In March [...]
