Books for the Holidays: Great Gift Ideas

If you have been watching TV, you have noticed that adds for Christmas shopping have already started. Now is the time to start your shopping, so you don;t have to wait for the last minute. How about a book on stocks and investing. The following is a group of top selling books about the stock market, Wall Street, and business.

Investment Scams

The Wolf of Wall Street

Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust

The End of Normal: A Wife's Anguish, A Widow's New Life

Chasing Madoff

Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff


Books about Warren Buffett

Trade Like Warren Buffett 

How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett: Profiting from the Bargain Hunting Strategies of the World's Greatest Value Investor

The Buffettology Workbook: Value Investing The Warren Buffett Way

J. K. Lasser's Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett

The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy


Books by Ken Fisher

Markets Never Forget (But People Do): How Your Memory Is Costing You Money-and Why This Time Isn't Different

The Only Three Questions That Still Count: Investing By Knowing What Others Don't

The Ten Roads to Riches: The Way the Wealthy Got There (And How You Can Too!)


Books by James Altucher

Choose Yourself!

I Was Blind But Now I See: Time to Be Happy

 Trade Like Warren Buffett

Trade Like a Hedge Fund: 20 Successful Uncorrelated Strategies & Techniques to Winning Profits 


Books by Tim Ferriss

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated)

The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life

The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman


Jim Cramer's Books

Jim Cramer's Getting Back to Even

Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World

Jim Cramer's Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer)

Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich

Confessions of a Street Addict

You Got Screwed! Why Wall Street Tanked and How You Can Prosper


Other Great Investment Books:


Code Red: How to Protect Your Savings From the Coming Crisis

The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel (Revised Edition)

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

Stock Trader's Almanac 2014 (Almanac Investor Series)

One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Stock Market Trivia: Includes a Special Section on the Weird Words of Wall Street

Stock Market Trivia Volume 2: Who Says Wall Street is Boring?

Trivia: What Stock Owns Pet.com and Pets.com Domain Names?

Stock Market Trivia is an ongoing feature at Stockerblog.com. The question for today is:


What stock owns the domain names Pet.com and Pets.com?


Give up?


The answer is:


Petsmart (PETM), the largest specialty retailer for pets.

If you like investment trivia, more stock market trivia and Wall Street trivia can be found in the book: 

 Stock Market Trivia

It makes a great gift for the holidays!!!

The Thanksgiving Stock Portfolio

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and a lot of turkeys and other food items will be eaten and sold. It is making me hungry just thinking about it. But I was also thinking about all the companies that are making money from these sales. Here are a few that will be participating in the business of Thanksgiving.

First, there is Hormel (HRL), which owns Jennie-O Turkey Sales, one of the two largest turkey processing companies in the United States, along with Cargill which is privately held. The stock trades at 25 times trailing earnings and 21 times forward earnings. Earnings for the latest reported quarter were up 21.4% on a 5.8% boost in revenues. The stock sports a decent yield of 1.5%.

Then there is Kraft Foods (KRFT) which through its Oscar Mayer brand sells turkey. Kraft also markets the ever popular Stovetop Stuffing. The stock trades at 15 time trailing earnings and 17 times forward earnings. It recently reported a 10.8% drop in earnings for the latest quarter on flat revenues. The yield is a very healthy 4.9%.

Tyson Foods (TSN) owns Hillshire Brands through a recent merger, which owns Sara Lee, which sells turkeys. The stock has a price to earnings ratio of 15, and reported a 4.4% rise in earnings on a 10.9% increase in sales. It pays a small yield of 0.7%.

One of the most popular turkey stuffings is the Pepperidge Farm stuffing, a brand owned by Campbell Soup (CPB). The stock has a trailing and forward PE ratio of 17 and pays a yield of 2.8%.

There are other companies that will benefit by the Thanksgiving holiday such as the airlines, the oil companies, wineries, pie companies, and more. Hopefully, you can fill your stomach with great food and fill your portfolio with great stocks. Also, if you like interesting stock lists like this, check out all the lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com. 

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written and has no plans to do so in the next 24 hours.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of November

  

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends,' also commonly referred to as 'Dividend Capture.' This is the process 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 only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique 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 yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

A. H. Belo Corporation	AHC	11/12/2014	2.8%
American Software	AMSWA	11/12/2014	4.5%
Artisan Partners Asset Management	APAM	11/12/2014	4.3%
Bar Harbor Bankshares	BHB	11/12/2014	3.2%
CF Industries	CF	11/12/2014	2.4%
CenterPoint Energy	CNP	11/12/2014	4.0%
Diebold, Inc.	DBD	11/12/2014	3.2%
DuPont	DD	11/12/2014	2.7%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website 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 at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. 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.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
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.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia
A Great Gift!

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.

By Stockerblog.com