Something happened recently that has never happened before in the market. If you take the current rate of inflation and compare it to the S&P 500’s earnings and dividend yield,…
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Ark Investments and the Potential Downsides of an ETF Structure
Exchange traded funds have many great qualities. They are mostly transparent, low cost, trade in real-time and can have significant tax advantages over other investment vehicles like mutual funds and…
Moves to Consider to Help Protect Your Portfolio & Profits
By Justin Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) Over the past few weeks, I’ve had conversations with a number of investors about the market’s amazing move higher, the astonishing performance in small caps, cyclicals…
The Explosion of SPACs -- Should You Care?
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — The odds of finding a pearl in your restaurant oyster are 1 in 10,000 to 1 in 12,000 depending on the species of mollusk.http://goldsteinsjewelers.blogspot.com/2014/06/gem-mythbuster-pearls-found-in.html This is an article…
The Five Horsemen of Valuation Ratios
No, this isn’t an article about pro wrestling, Ric Flair and his sidekicks. Rather, it’s an introductory piece on the different ratios used to assess whether or not a stock…
Bitcoin Grows Up
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — Bitcoin has gone from JV to Varsity, and now has a valuation as high as some of the world’s top companies. Turning 12 years…
What GameStop’s Crazy Ride Can Teach Us About Investing
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — There’s a saying from Winston Churchill, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, and while the news around the Reddit message board, r/wallstreetbets,…
Where’s the Beef? Where’s the Value?
By Justin J. Carbonneau (@jjcarbonneau) — “Where’s the beef”, the popular quip from the 1984 Wendy’s commercial showed three women looking at a big, fluffy bun with expectations of an…
Considerations For Investors Seeking High Dividend Paying Stocks
Many stock investors seek out high dividend paying companies. Over time, dividends have been an important component of long-term stock returns and many investors, particularly investors drawing off their portfolios,…
Seven Lessons from Mr. Market in 2020
In Ben Graham’s The Intelligent Investor, he introduces Mr. Market, which is an allegory that is meant to help the reader understand the irrational, groupthink and herding mentality that can…