🔥Don't forget - SeekingAlpha.Com is holding a special BLACK FRIDAY sale... see details below!👇 📖 YOUR FREE READ THIS WEEK 📖 Inside Our Portfolio: The Investments We Plan To Own For Life Millennial Dividends share their actual portfolio (with real returns that beat the S&P 500) and explain exactly which stocks and ETFs they're holding forever—plus why they rarely buy or sell anything. [Link To Article] Normally requires a paid SeekingAlpha subscription - I'm gifting you access! ** Some readers...
5 days ago • 3 min read
📖 YOUR FREE READ THIS WEEK 📖 SeekingAlpha.com GPIQ Is Becoming The King Of The Covered Call ETFs You know my dislike for covered call ETFs, but many investors have been asking about GPIQ. This FREE article dives into how this ETF pays you 9.5% every month AND your money still grows. Most income funds make you pick one or the other - this one found a way to do both. Normally requires a paid SeekingAlpha subscription - I'm gifting you access! 💡 QUOTE OF THE WEEK 💡 "The stock market is a giant...
12 days ago • 3 min read
📖 YOUR FREE READ THIS WEEK 📖 Avoid These 3 Dividend Traps Before They Wreck Your Retirement Income Three dividend mistakes that could quietly ruin your retirement - find out which stocks look safe but aren't. Normally requires a paid SeekingAlpha subscription - I'm gifting you access! 💡 QUOTE OF THE WEEK 💡 "We look at the business to see what we're worth, not the stock price."— Warren Buffett, 2000 Annual Shareholder Meeting Remember that focusing on the business economics (sales, profit...
19 days ago • 2 min read
October brought some awesome news - 5 of my holdings announced dividend increases! These raises mean I'll earn an extra $46 every single year without doing anything except holding my shares. Check out which companies are paying me more: AbbVie (ABBV) +5.5% 💊 New amount: $6.92 per share SimplySafeDividends.com Exxon (XOM) +4.0% ⛽ New amount: $4.12 per share Visa (V) +14% 💳 New amount: $2.68 per share McDonald's (MCD) +5.1% 🍔 New amount: $7.44 per share Agree Realty (ADC) +2.3% 🏢 New amount:...
26 days ago • 2 min read
It’s Almost Halloween — and I’m Thinking About Tootsie Roll Industries (TR) SimplySafeDividends.com But not because I’m craving candy. There’s a really interesting “trick or treat” happening with this stock every single year, and I think you’ll find it pretty cool once you understand what’s going on. What Makes Tootsie Roll Special? Tootsie Roll is what’s called a Dividend King. That means they have raised their dividend for at least 50 consecutive years. Think about that for a second. Fifty...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
You know that creepy scene in The Sixth Sense where the kid whispers "I see dead people"? I had an experience in Las Vegas after midnight I gotta tell you about. It's hard to make out, but I have photographic evidence: See it? It's a digital billboard owned by Lamar (LAMR)! Spooky, right?! I think investors develop a sixth sense. Except instead of seeing dead people, we see investment opportunities everywhere. And once you develop it, you can't turn it off. Here's what happened: We're in...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
I did something this week I haven't done since June of 2020: I bought shares of McDonald's (MCD). My entire MCD purchase history I accumulated 10 shares in 2019-2020, with an average cost basis of $177. Then I just... stopped. Not because anything was wrong. I got stuck waiting for the "right price." Big mistake. I was sitting at a red light this week around 8 AM here in the Chicago suburbs staring at a corner McDonald's. I counted 5-6 cars parked in the lot and another 6-7 in the drive-thru....
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
🚨A quick word: I'll be a guest speaker at the Blossom Investor event in Chicago on Tuesday, October 7th. I have 5 FREE tickets if anyone wants to go! Reply to this ASAP and let me know.🚨 A random DM conversation about the VIX reminded me of something I wanted to share with you... Lots of people misunderstand what the VIX actually is and why it doesn't matter much to us as long-term investors. The VIX measures how volatile traders expect the S&P 500 to be over the next 30 days, based on...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
🚨A quick word: I'll be a guest speaker at the Blossom Investor event in Chicago on Tuesday, October 7th. Grab a 15% discount with DAPPER15.🚨 I bought more Ares Capital (ARCC) stock while many are selling it. ➡️You can watch the VIDEO version of this too.⬅️ What's ARCC? It's basically a company that lends money to other businesses and pays us dividends from the profits they make. Think of it like being a bank, but for medium-sized companies. Investors are selling because the Fed is cutting...
2 months ago • 3 min read
🚨A quick word: I'll be a guest speaker at the Blossom Investor event in Chicago on Tuesday, October 7th. Grab a 15% discount with DAPPER15.🚨 This week is homecoming at my daughter's high school, and funny enough, my portfolio is having its own homecoming with a stock I've been watching for years. [Quick side note: My original draft was 7 pages long. Huge shoutout to Claude.AI for helping me turn my novel into something people might actually read without needing a bathroom break!] So, I heard...
2 months ago • 4 min read