If you ever wondered who owns the U.S. Treasury bonds, notes and bills that are loans to the United States Government, here is a list with a rough estimate of the amounts that the U.S. owes.
US Investors $6,890 billion
US Government $5,730 billion
Federal Reserve $2,380 billion
Japan $1,261 billion
China $1074 billion
United Kingdom $446 billion
Ireland $330 billion
Luxembourg $267 billion
Hong Kong $266 billion
Brazil $264 billion
The rest includes many other countries, such as Switzerland, Cayman Islands, Belgium, India, France, Saudi Arabia, etc.
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.
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.
Intel Corporation (INTC)
11/5/2020
0.33
3.00%
American Electric Power Company, Inc. (AEP)
11/9/2020
0.74
3.27%
Starbucks Corporation (SBUX)
11/10/2020
0.45
2.04%
Target Corporation (TGT)
11/17/2020
0.68
1.76%
CSX Corporation (CSX)
11/27/2020
0.26
1.34%
Coca-Cola Company (KO)
11/30/2020
0.41
3.42%
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.
For example, you can look up the cost of going to a restaurant, the cost of a beer, or a bottle of water. Checking out Costa Rica, a three course meal for two costs $41.47, $2.49for a beer, and a bottle of water is $1.34.
You can also check out the cost of various types of food, transportation, sports, utilities, entertainment, childcare, clothing, rent, and salaries.
You can also see the quality of life, crime, health care, pollution, and more.
I have no connection to this site. I just came across it and thought it gives some cool information.
The authors break down the phases needed for success into seven steps:
The Awakening
The Shift
The Place
The Launch
The Money
The Test
The Scale
There is a chapter covering each one of stages, and within each chapter, the authors give real life example of various types of entrepreneurs, and how they succeeded.
As a matter of fact you can find out what type of entrepreneurial archetype you are and what other types you need to bring on board to round out the organization, by going to a free online quiz, which can be found at the following link:
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For those who are planning on starting their own business or just getting started, I suggest you check out The Entrepreneur’s Faces.
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The following informative interview was provided by Kenneth L. Fisher, founder and chairman of the money management firm Fisher Investments, who had the longest continuous running column in Forbes Magazine. He is a billionaire on the Forbes 400 list and author of numerous investment related books.
According to Investment Advisor magazine, he is one of the 30 most influential people in the investment advisory business over the last 30 years. Fisher is considered to be the largest wealth manager in the United States.
We cover a lot in this interview, including:
The stock market under President Donald Trump versus former Vice President Joe Biden
The influence of corporate tax rate on the stocks
The potential of the reversal of Trump’s tax bill on Day One if Joe Biden & Kamila Harris win the election
The market under Republicans versus Democrats
Whether inflation is on the horizon
The petroleum industry
Gross Output, GDP, and the economy versus the stock market
Are stock ratios dead? (PE, PS, PEG)
And much, much more
Two Timeless Books Mentioned by Ken Fisher in the Interview
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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.
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.
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. (KDP)
10/1/2020
0.15
2.21%
Oracle Corporation (ORCL)
10/7/2020
0.24
1.61%
Foot Locker, Inc. (FL)
10/15/2020
0.15
1.87%
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW)
10/20/2020
0.60
1.48%
Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSM)
10/22/2020
0.48
2.15%
Royal Bank Of Canada (RY)
10/23/2020
0.828
4.68%
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.
Yesterday, Piedmont Lithium (PLL) spiked 236% on the news that the company made an agreement with Tesla (TSLA) to supply lithium for batteries.
News of the deal caused other lithium mining stocks to escalate yesterday, such as Lithium Americas (LAC) up 27.5%, Sociedad Quimica y Minera (SQM) up 4% and Livent (LTHM) up 5.8%.
Lithium is one of the critical components of batteries used in electric vehicles, which has created a huge demand for this element. It is the lightest metal and the lightest solid element. Interestingly, it is also used for psychiatric medication.
The following stocks are involved in the production of lithium.
COMPANY
SYMBOL
MKT CAP in millions
Albemarle
ALB
9,198
Sociedad Quimica y Minera
SQM
8,199
Livent
LTHM
1,295
Lithium Americas
LAC
945
Orocobre
OROCF
571
Pilbara
PILBF
498
Galaxy Resources
GALXF
322
Piedmont Lithium
PLL
314
American Lithium
LIACF
70
American Battery Metals
ABML
52
Power Metals
PWRMF
28
One of these stocks might give your portfolio a charge.
Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.
Sports are coming back. Online betting is increasing. What companies are benefiting?
Two years ago, the Supreme Court allowed betting on sports in all states, with each state deciding whether to allow this form of gambling or not. Several states have already legalized online sports betting. Many more states are considering legislation. These changes should lead to more online gambling, and a transition from illegal gambling to legal betting.
So if you are looking for a way to profit from sports gambling, you should look at the stocks that should benefit from the online betting on sports events.
DraftKings (DKNG) is one of the largest pure plays in the online sports betting arena. This was one of the stocks that was created from a SPAC. Revenues for this $20.6 billion market cap company were up 23.6% for the latest quarter. Earnings are minimal giving it a price to earnings ratio of over 1000.
Flutter Entertainment (PDYPY) is one of the largest daily fantasy sports providers and a leader in the legal sports betting market. The company was formerly named Paddy Power Betfair. This $25 billion market cap company trades at 47.5 times earnings.
Boyd Gaming Corp. (BYD), an operator of a company that runs over a dozen casinos across the United States, offers its B Connected Sports app in order to take advantage of increased legalization. The stock trades at 30.9 times forward earnings.
The following is a list of over 20 companies that may benefit from online sports betting and Internet gambling, sorted in order of market cap.
It was one year ago at the San Francisco MoneyShow that I gave a speech called Stocks of Leading Future Industries. In that presentation on August 16, 2019, I covered seven leading industries, plus one bonus industry.
The bonus industry was Legalized Hallucinogenic Drugs, primarily the legalization of psilocybin and the industry around its use for therapeutic purposes.
First Public Psilocybin Stock
At that time, there was only one publicly traded stock involved in researching psilocybin, Wuhan General (WUHN), which had a division, M2BIO, that was exploring the medical use of psilocybin for treatments of various conditions.
I didn’t recommend the stock during the speech, (I never make any recommendations, I only come up with suggestions for you to research), but I did say that one of these days, this stock will start to move up, other psilocybin companies will go public, and these stocks could take off just like the cannabis stocks did in the past. I told the audience to watch this stock and the industry. You can see my speech below. The section on the psilocybin and psychedelic pharmaceutical industry is at the 25 minute mark.
If you want to see a pdf of the slides from the presentation, you can go HERE.
The Alert About Psychedelic Stocks
So why was it important to keep an eye on this stock? From November 20, 2019 to May 20, 2020, the stock traded between 2 cents a share to 4 cents a share. The next day, the stock almost doubled to 7 cents a share. It then traded at 8 cents a share for a couple days, and jumped by 50% to 12 cents a share the next day. After that, it really started to move.
So there were exactly six months that you could have picked up the stock for, let’s say, 3 cents a share, halfway between the trading range. The stock closed at 33 cents on Friday (actually 32.75 cents but I rounded to make the calculation easier).
This works out to a 1,000% profit on Wuhan. In other words, if you had invested $5,000 at 3 cents per share, the shareholdings would now be worth $50,000. Actually the stock has even traded above 42 cents since May.
The movement of the shares should have been an alert to investors and traders.
Why the Potential for the Psychedelic Drug Industry
In my presentation, I discussed how extensive research is being done with health treatment studies on the use of psilocybin to treat:
•Anxiety disorders
•Major depression
•Addictions
•Drug dependence
•Mood disorders
•Treatment Resistant Depression
•OCD
•PTSD
I also mentioned that psilocybin and magic mushrooms have been decriminalized or legalized in:
–Denver, Colorado (May 2019)
–Oakland, California (June 2019)
–Austria (possession decriminalized 2016)
–Brazil
–Iceland (fresh mushrooms only)
–Jamaica
–Netherlands (legal as truffle)
–Portugal (decriminalized)
–Samoa
–Spain (decriminalized for personal use)
–Vietnam
Since then, Santa Cruz has decriminalized psilocybin in January of this year.
Is There a Precedent for Using Hallucinogenic Drugs Medically?
There have actually been examples of hallucinogenic drugs being used for medical purposes. One example is Lorcaserin [BELVIQ], which is a hallucinogen, but has been marketed for weight loss in very low doses. The Schedule I hallucinogen psilocybin has the same mechanism of action as Lorcaserin, according to the U. S. Government National Institute of Health. Arena (ARNA) markets the drug in the U.S. and South Korea, and Eisai Co Ltd (ESALY) manufactures and distributes the drug.
Another example is Spravato, which is a derivative of the psychedelic ketamine, and is being used for depression. It is produced by Johnson & Johnson (JNJ).
What’s Happening Now with Psychedelic Drugs and Stocks
On Friday, September 18, 2020, Compass Pathways (CMPS) went public, trading on the NASDAQ. The company’s IPO was priced at $17 per share, up from a range of $14 to $16, due to the huge demand.
Once it started trading it skyrocketed to $29 a share, an increase of over 70%, and putting the market cap at almost a billion dollars.
The company, which is based in England, is doing therapeutic research on the use of psilocybin for depression.
There are now over a dozen stocks involved in the psilocybin and psychedelic drug industry. To see a list of these stocks, click HERE.
Maybe some of these stocks will get higher and higher.
Disclosure: Author owns a very small amount of CMPS (less than 10 shares) at the time the article was written.
