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Stocks Going Ex Dividend in July 2020

The following is a short list of some of the many stocks going ex dividend during the next month.

Many traders and investors use the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the strategy of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend.

TOP DIVIDEND STOCKS

This technique generally works in bull markets and flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the strategy during bear markets. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date.

The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and many with yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the periodic dividend amount.

American Express Company (AXP) 7/1/2020 0.43 1.76%
Mastercard Incorporated (MA) 7/8/2020 0.40 0.54%
Campbell Soup Company (CPB) 7/14/2020 0.35 2.82%
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW) 7/21/2020 0.55 1.67%
Clorox Company (CLX) 7/28/2020 1.11 2.07%
Hasbro, Inc. (HAS) 7/31/2020 0.68 3.87%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found HERE . (If you have been to the page before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists HERE . Most of the lists are free.

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

TOP DIVIDEND STOCKS

Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written, and affiliate links.

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The Top Three Age Reversal and Age Extension Stocks

by Fred Fuld III

The baby boomers are getting older, and as they age, they become more concerned about their health, living as long as they can, and living as healthy as they can. The boomers get concerned about age related illnesses and diseases that can affect them.

Fortunately, there are a few companies involved in targeting human aging and degenerative diseases. There are many companies involved in developing treatments and cures for many diseases, such as cancer, and may have a small part of their business involved in age reversal. But there aren’t many companies involved age extension as a pure play. Here are a few longevity stocks worth doing further research on.

Cohbar (CWBR) is a clinical stage biotechnology company which concentrates  on the research and development of mitochondria based therapeutics, an emerging class of drugs for the treatment of chronic and age-related diseases. CohBars therapeutics offer the potential to treat a broad range of diseases, including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, obesity, fibrotic diseases, cancer, acute respiratory distress syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. The company is even in a pre-clinical program for COVID-19 associated ARDS. This  Menlo Park, California based company was founded in 2007. The stock has a market cap of $97 million and has been generating negative earnings. It has $12.5 million in total cash and long term debt of $3.4 million.

AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. (AGE) is an Alameda, California based biotechnology company founded in 2017, with a great stock ticker symbol.The company develops and commercializes novel therapeutics targeting human aging. The company’s two major proprietary technologies are PureStem® and induced Tissue Regeneration (iTR™). PureStem® can generate pluripotent stem cell-derived young cells of any type for potential application in a range of degenerative diseases of aging with a high unmet medical need. iTR™ is the company’s longevity platform with a goal of unlocking cellular immortality and regenerative capacity to reverse age-related changes in the body. The stock has a market cap of $32 million and has been generating negative earnings. It has $2.3 million in total cash and $1.5 million in long term debt.

resTORbio, Inc. (TORC) is a Boston, Massachusetts based company founded in 2016, which is involved in developing innovative medicines that target the biology of aging to prevent or treat aging-related diseases. The company’s lead clinical program is selectively targeting TORC1, an evolutionarily conserved pathway that contributes to the age-related decline in function of multiple organ systems, including neurologic function. Inhibition of TORC1 has the potential to improve the function of aging organ systems and address multiple aging related diseases. The stock has a market cap of $77 million and has been generating negative earnings. It has total cash of $91 million and virtually no long term debt.

Please be aware that these are extremely low cap stocks and should be considered very speculative.

Disclosure: Author owns CWBR.

Are Rock and Roll Collectibles a Good Investment?

by Fred Fuld III

Last week, a Cloud 2 Blue Angel guitar that was owned and played by Prince was sold at auction for $563,500 by Julien’s Auctions in Beverly Hills, California.

If you think that’s a lot of money, Kurt Cobain’s 1959 Martin D-18E guitar which he played on Nirvana’s “MTV Unplugged” performance had an estimated value of $1,000,000 to $2,000,000, but was hammered at an incredible $6,010,000.

Of course, there were a few lower priced items you could have purchased, such as the Fender Stratocaster guitar signed by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, which went for $15,625.

But you aren’t just limited to guitars. You could have bought a poster signed by Bob Dylan for $4,480. Or The Who album poster for just $192. Or a Jimi Hendrix Experience Band album signed by Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, and Mitch Mitchell which went for $7,680.

If you are an Elvis Presley fan, you could have bought his army patches or his deputy sheriff badge or his scarf, his tie, his hat, or his ring.

So if you are wondering, should you be putting some of your stock market profits into rock and roll collectibles, the answer is maybe.

Over time, entertainment collectibles can appreciate in value, but the decision on whether to purchase and what you purchase should not be based on resale value but on which entertainer or musician you are a fan of and what you really want to collect. The value you receive should be the knowledge that you own something that a famous person has played, or held, or wrote.

Happy collecting!!!

Disclosure: Author does not own any of the above.

 

The Top Ten Infrastructure Stocks

by Fred Fuld III

Just one week ago, President Trump’s administration announced a $1 trillion infrastructure proposal to stimulate the economy. Then just four days ago, the House Democrats came up with a $1.5 trillion infrastructure bill.

This huge amount of money should not only help the economy but should also benefit certain stocks involved in the infrastructure business. Here is a list of ten infrastructure stocks that could show an increase in revenues, earnings, and stock price due to the money flowing into this arena.

Arcosa (ACA) provides infrastructure-related products and solutions for the construction, energy, and transportation markets, including commercial, industrial, road and bridge, and underground construction. The stock has a price to earnings ratio of 17 and pays a yield of 0.5%.

Construction Partners, Inc. (ROAD) is an infrastructure and road construction company, providing products and services to public and private infrastructure projects, such as highways, roads, bridges, airports, and commercial sites. The stock has a price to earnings ratio of 22 and does not pay a dividend.

Primoris Services Corporation (PRIM) is a specialty contractor and infrastructure company, which provides construction, fabrication, maintenance, replacement, and engineering services, including highway and bridge construction, airport runway and taxiway construction, and demolition. The stock has a P/E ratio of 11 and pays a yield of 1.4%.

Tutor Perinin (TPC) is a construction company that provides diversified general contracting, construction management, and design-build services. The company has been generating negative earnings and does not pay a dividend.

Nucor (NUE) manufactures and sells steel and steel products used in numerous infrastructure projects. The stock has a P/E ratio of 16.5 and pays a yield of 3.8%.

Vulcan Materials (VMC) produces and markets construction aggregates, asphalt mix and ready-mixed concrete for highways, airports, and government buildings. The stock has a P/E ratio of 26 and pays a yield of 1.1%.

Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) is a major supplier of aggregates and heavy building materials. The stock has a P/E ratio of 22 and pays a yield of 1.0%.


Aecom (ACM) is a provider of design, engineering, and construction services. The company has been generating negative earnings and does not pay a dividend.

Caterpillar (CAT) is a heavy equipment manufacturer with products used in infrastructure. The stock has a P/E ratio of 13 and pays a yield of 3.2%.

Granite Construction (GVA) is an infrastructure contractor and a construction materials producer. The company has been generating negative earnings but pays a dividend of 2.7%.

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.

Do You Have Trouble Remembering Passwords?

by Fred Fuld III

If you are like me, you have hundreds of different passwords, and if you are doing what you are supposed to for protecting your accounts, those passwords should all be different.

Just as one example, I have 31 different accounts that just begin with the letter A, including Amazon, AT&T, American Stock Transfer, AAA, American Express, Apple, and many others. I have even more accounts that begin with the letter C.

I used to write down all the passwords on a list but with hundreds of passwords, it took forever to find the one I want. In addition, I never wanted to type my passwords on a file on my computer, in the event the computer got hacked. I figured writing them down would be easier.

Now I have a book called Email and Website Password Logbook which is set up in sections by letters of the alphabet. In other words, all the accounts with the letter A, all the accounts with the letter B, and so forth, making it easier to find the password I am looking for. It is much easier than looking down a list where everything is scrambled in terms of the alphabet.

The Email and Website Password Logbook is currently available on Amazon for less than $7, and I highly recommend it.

 

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Top Tech Short Squeeze Stocks

by Fred Fuld III

Many technology stocks are making all time highs, whereas others are sinking. Several of these tech stocks are heavily shorted.  When stocks rise quickly in price for whatever reason, short sellers scramble to cover their positions by buying shares, and causing the price of the stock to increase even more.

Traders and investors can make money on the long side from short squeezes. One technique that stock traders utilize is buying short squeeze stocks, companies have been heavily shorted. Here is a more extensive explanation of  short squeezes.

When you short a stock, it means that your goal is to make money from a drop in the price of a stock. Technically, what happens is that you borrow shares of a stock, sell those shares, then buy back those shares at a hopefully lower price so that those shares can be returned. This all happens electronically, so you don’t actually see all the borrowing and returning of shares; it just shows up on your screen as a negative number of shares.

Short sellers can be profitable, but sometimes when the stock moves against them, and begins to rise, the short sellers jump in right away to buy shares to cover their positions, creating what is called a short squeeze. When a short squeeze takes place, it can cause the share prices to increase fast and furiously. Any good news can trigger the short squeeze.

Some traders utilize this situation by looking for stocks to buy that may have a potential short squeeze. Here is what a short squeeze trader should take into consideration:

Short Percentage of Float ~ The float is the number of freely tradable shares and the short percentage is the number of shares held short divided by the float. Amounts over 10% to 20% are considered high and potential short squeeze plays.

Short Ratio / Days to Cover / Short Interest Ratio -This is probably the most important metric when looking for short squeeze trades, no matter what you call it. This is the number of days it would take the short sellers to cover their position based on the average daily volume of shares traded. This is a significant ratio as it shows how “stuck” the short sellers are when they want to buy in their shares without driving up the price too much. Unfortunately for the shortsellers, the longer the number of days to cover, the bigger and longer the squeeze.

Short Percentage Increase ~ This is the percentage increase in in the number of short sellers from the previous month.

Here is one example from the list below.  Ebix Inc. (EBIX) is a stock that is heavily shorted. As a matter fo fact, 32% of the float is shorted. Plus, the short interest ratio is 11.7. That means it would take the short sellers over eleven days to cover their positions, based on the number of shares that trade each day on average.

So what technology stocks are heavily shorted that may be worth a closer examination? Check out the following list, but be aware, that often some stocks are heavily shorted for a reason.

All these stocks have significant short metrics, but they also have price to earnings ratios less than 15 and price to earnings growth ratios of less than 2..

Possibly a short squeeze will cause a few of these to rise sharply, turning lemons into lemonade.

Stock Symbol % of Float Days to Cover
3D Systems DDD 31% 14
Ebix EBIX 32% 11.7
Inseego INSG 34% 5.1
iRobot IRBT 32% 8.1

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.

Marijuana Cannabis Stocks that Pay Dividends

by Fred Fuld III

In case you missed the MoneyShow presentation on Marijuana Stocks that Pay Dividends, attached is the slide show from the presentation.

To access the slide show as a pdf file, click on the link below:

Marijuana Stocks that Pay Dividends

None of the stocks mentioned in the presentation are recommendations, just suggestions to do further research.

Disclosure: Author owns IIPR.

Stocks Going Ex Dividend in June 2020

The following is a short list of some of the many stocks going ex dividend during the next month.

Many traders and investors use the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the strategy of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend.

TOP DIVIDEND STOCKS

This technique generally works in bull markets and flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the strategy during bear markets. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date.

The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and many with yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the periodic dividend amount.

Home Depot, Inc. (HD) 6/3/2020 1.50 2.41%
MGM Resorts International (MGM) 6/9/2020 0.002 0.06%
Nasdaq, Inc. (NDAQ) 6/11/2020 0.49 1.65%
Coca-Cola Company (KO) 6/12/2020 0.41 3.51%
Deere & Company (DE) 6/29/2020 0.76 2.00%
Yamana Gold Inc. (AUY) 6/29/2020 0.016 1.17%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found HERE . (If you have been to the page before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists HERE . Most of the lists are free.

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

TOP DIVIDEND STOCKS

Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written, and affiliate links.

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Classic Historical Books About Wall Street and the Stock Market

by Fred Fuld III

Sometimes history repeats itself. Sometimes it pays to look at the past to get perspective about the present and the future. Sometimes it’s just fun and fascinating to read about what was going on in the investment market years ago.

Here is a list of stock market and Wall Street books written a long time ago, one of which is from the 1800’s. With the quarantine in place, you probably have a lot more reading time. Here is a refreshing change from the “get rich quick in the stock market” books.

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – first published in 1923
by Edwin Lefevre
This is the classic book on investing, trading, market timing, and crowd psychology, just as true today as it was almost a century ago. It is based on the life of top notorious trader, Jesse Livermore.

My Adventures with Your Money – first published in 1911
by George Graham Rice
About a conman who make money off the early gold mining stock boom.

The PLUNGERS and the PEACOCKS. 150 years of Wall Street – published in 1967
by Dana L. Thomas
Written during the bull market of the 1960s, it provides an entertaining history of the stock market.

Den of Thieves – published in 1991
by James B. Stewart
The “newest” of these old books, it covers the insider trading scandals involving Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and other Wall Street financiers  during the 1980s.

Storming The Magic Kingdom – published in 1987
by John Taylor
A must read book about the fight for control of one of America’s most famous companies.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) by Charles Mackay included as part of Stock Market Trivia Volume 2 (2014)
The Extraordinary Popular Delusions book was written in the mid-1800s. It has many chapters, but most are unrelated to investing, such as alchemy, witches, haunted houses, etc. However, three of the chapters have extensive and entertaining information about three of the largest investment bubbles in history: the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and the Tulip Mania. These three chapters are included as the last half of the  Stock Market  Trivia Volume 2 book. (In interest of full disclosure, I wrote the Stock Market Trivia 2 book.) In addition, the trivia book includes such things as the chocolate chip cookie/stock market correlation, celebrity stock indices, weird stock certificates, and more.

Happy reading.

 

 

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Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School

by Fred Fuld III

The book, Startup Myths and Models: What You Won’t Learn in Business School, by Rizwan Virk is a great resource for those who are considering launching a startup nd those who have already established their startup.

Virk uses an interesting approach to provide advice to startupers, by listing over 20 myths, including bonus myths, relating to startups, and why those myths are wrong, and provides advice relating to these issues and misconceptions.

Just a few of the myths are:

  • You have to be first to market
  • A great product and a big market are the most important things
  • Talk to as many investors as you can
  • Hire the most experienced people you can find
  • and many more

My two favorite chapters (myths) were There is No Such Thing as Bad Publicity (a very short but important section) and Startups Are Hard Work.

The author includes numerous real life examples and anecdotes to get his points across.

If you have any interest in creating your own startup, or if you are in the beginning or middle stages of your startup, I highly recommend that you read Startup Myths and Models.