Stock Market Today

First, keep a raised eyebrow to cash flow. Cash flow is considered the life blood of a company and is the most reliable way to insure you’re not holding a bunch of accounting tricks in your stock certificates. When a company’s cash payments surpass its cash take, the company’s cash flow is negative. If this [...]

Learning how to use the stock market is always more than just a little tricky. But even then, being able to foresee what is going to happen in the stock market will always have a risk factor – you win some, and… Knowing just which ones to pick should not be left to mere guesswork, [...]

This is a very simple strategy  in which you find out which ten of the Dow Jones Industrial companies currently have the highest dividend yield and then you purchase those stocks . These stocks are called the “dogs” of the Dow because they tend to have lower prices than the other Dow components, which means [...]

Some stock strategies  focus on reducing brokerage commissions in order to boost overall returns. Direct Stock Purchase plans (DSPs) let you buy shares of stock directly from the company, without the use of a brokerage (and without the commission they charge). DSPs are a good way to invest since you don’t even have to be [...]

Growth Growth investors focus on one aspect of a company: its potential for earnings growth. They believe that companies with high earnings growth will see their stock price continue to increase, since investors will want to own profitable companies that can pay large dividends in the future. The number that they pay the most attention [...]