I have a simple question for you… If you could buy 5% of a company and have it turn into 10% of the business — without investing another dime — would you do it? It’s obviously a rhetorical question. Who wouldn’t want their stake in a company to double in size? Well, it so happens that you can do this. And you don’t have to reinvest dividends or pay taxes on any capital gains. Let me explain… Certain companies will periodically “give away” a portion… Read More

I have a simple question for you… If you could buy 5% of a company and have it turn into 10% of the business — without investing another dime — would you do it? It’s obviously a rhetorical question. Who wouldn’t want their stake in a company to double in size? Well, it so happens that you can do this. And you don’t have to reinvest dividends or pay taxes on any capital gains. Let me explain… Certain companies will periodically “give away” a portion of company ownership, free of charge, to their existing shareholders. They’ll even spend billions of dollars of their own money to do it. Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) has been known to do this. The company is on track to “give away” $2.5 billion worth of ownership by the end of 2012, but recently said it would begin “giving away” $18.9 billion more as early as next year. Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) also likes to have these “giveaways.” During the past 11 years, the company has “given away” $5.1 billion worth of ownership. But it’s not just these two. Every year, companies the… Read More

Nearly 20 years ago, I took a class taught by legendary investor John Griffin and guest speaker Julian Robertson. The class was held at my alma mater — the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. I had no way of knowing it at the time, but a talented classmate of mine would go on to write several bestselling financial books, including The Ivy Portfolio and Shareholder Yield. His name? Mebane Faber. His friends call him “Meb.” But when it comes to the stock market… experts around the world are calling him a genius… #-ad_banner-#​“Of the many books… Read More

Nearly 20 years ago, I took a class taught by legendary investor John Griffin and guest speaker Julian Robertson. The class was held at my alma mater — the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia. I had no way of knowing it at the time, but a talented classmate of mine would go on to write several bestselling financial books, including The Ivy Portfolio and Shareholder Yield. His name? Mebane Faber. His friends call him “Meb.” But when it comes to the stock market… experts around the world are calling him a genius… #-ad_banner-#​“Of the many books I’ve read on investment strategies over the past decade, I put [the Ivy Portfolio] at the top of the class.” — Doug Short, Advisor Perspectives “The most useful book could be [the Ivy Portfolio] by money manager Mebane Faber. He offers a simplified model that regular people can adopt.” — BusinessWeek “If he keeps up what he’s doing, he’s going to be famous someday… He simply has too many good ideas.” — Stansberry Research.  Put simply, Mebane Faber is an up-and-coming star in the financial world. And for good reason.  Thanks to a groundbreaking academic study he published last year,… Read More

If you’d invested $100,000 in the S&P 500 back in 1982, it would have been worth $2.3 million by the end of 2011. If you would have invested that same amount in dividend payers, you’d have $4.3 million.  Not bad. And that’s where most investors stop.  But if you’d invested the same amount of cash using a simple strategy that too many investors often ignore, then it would have been worth $6.7 million. Seem too good to be true? It’s not.  #-ad_banner-#Many investors searching for the best total returns will simply look for high-yielding stocks. But dividends don’t… Read More

If you’d invested $100,000 in the S&P 500 back in 1982, it would have been worth $2.3 million by the end of 2011. If you would have invested that same amount in dividend payers, you’d have $4.3 million.  Not bad. And that’s where most investors stop.  But if you’d invested the same amount of cash using a simple strategy that too many investors often ignore, then it would have been worth $6.7 million. Seem too good to be true? It’s not.  #-ad_banner-#Many investors searching for the best total returns will simply look for high-yielding stocks. But dividends don’t tell the whole story — not even half of it. If you’re looking for more cash from your investments, you should be looking at all of the ways a company distributes its cash.  Don’t get me wrong — dividends can be a great indicator of company health. From 1972 through 2011, members of the S&P that don’t pay dividends returned just 1.4% per year, turning a $1,000 investment into just $1,710 according to research by Ned Davis. Meanwhile, companies that pay dividends returned 8.6% annually — significantly more than those that did not. Dividends are obviously a key ingredient to… Read More

This is the most foolproof way I can think of to earn 1,000% returns and yields above 50%. It may sound impossible, but this will be a reality for many forward-thinking investors. The numbers will be different for every investor, depending on when they recognized this opportunity. Those who saw it earliest will make the most money. I’ll explain everything you need to know shortly. But before we go any further, you need to understand one very critical point… #-ad_banner-#To take advantage of this opportunity you have to change the way you look at your portfolio…  As it stands, many… Read More

This is the most foolproof way I can think of to earn 1,000% returns and yields above 50%. It may sound impossible, but this will be a reality for many forward-thinking investors. The numbers will be different for every investor, depending on when they recognized this opportunity. Those who saw it earliest will make the most money. I’ll explain everything you need to know shortly. But before we go any further, you need to understand one very critical point… #-ad_banner-#To take advantage of this opportunity you have to change the way you look at your portfolio…  As it stands, many investors will ignore what I’m going to share with you… and I know exactly why. You see, as with any great goal, this one will take time to reach. Try to think of a great achievement that only took a few weeks or months to accomplish — they are few and far between. It took decades to put a man on the moon. It took decades to develop a vaccine for polio. It took four years to construct the Golden Gate Bridge… and five years to build the Hoover Dam. These accomplishments weren’t done in a few weeks or a… Read More

This is the most foolproof way I can think of to earn 1,000% returns and yields above 50%. It may sound impossible, but this will be a reality for many forward-thinking investors. The numbers will be different for every investor, depending on when they recognized this opportunity. Those who saw it earliest will make the most money. I’ll explain everything you need to know shortly. But before we go any further, you need to understand one very critical point… #-ad_banner-#To take advantage of this opportunity you have to change the way you look at your portfolio…  As it stands, many… Read More

This is the most foolproof way I can think of to earn 1,000% returns and yields above 50%. It may sound impossible, but this will be a reality for many forward-thinking investors. The numbers will be different for every investor, depending on when they recognized this opportunity. Those who saw it earliest will make the most money. I’ll explain everything you need to know shortly. But before we go any further, you need to understand one very critical point… #-ad_banner-#To take advantage of this opportunity you have to change the way you look at your portfolio…  As it stands, many investors will ignore what I’m going to share with you… and I know exactly why. You see, as with any great goal, this one will take time to reach. Try to think of a great achievement that only took a few weeks or months to accomplish — they are few and far between. It took decades to put a man on the moon. It took decades to develop a vaccine for polio. It took four years to construct the Golden Gate Bridge… and five years to build the Hoover Dam. These accomplishments weren’t done in a few weeks or a… Read More

These seven stocks have done the impossible. Each one of them has paid a dividend like clockwork for over a century. In fact, the longest-standing dividend payer on the list hasn’t missed a payment since 1877 — when Rutherford B. Hayes was president. Think of everything that has happened to our financial system since that time…World War I and II… The Great Depression… the dot-com bubble… government shutdowns… the list goes on. These seven stocks are easily the biggest dividend stocks to invest in. These companies breezed through… Read More

These seven stocks have done the impossible. Each one of them has paid a dividend like clockwork for over a century. In fact, the longest-standing dividend payer on the list hasn’t missed a payment since 1877 — when Rutherford B. Hayes was president. Think of everything that has happened to our financial system since that time…World War I and II… The Great Depression… the dot-com bubble… government shutdowns… the list goes on. These seven stocks are easily the biggest dividend stocks to invest in. These companies breezed through every economic downturn America has ever faced without so much as a hiccup in their dividend payments. In fact, most of them were able to increase their payouts during those periods… That’s pretty remarkable considering that in 2009 alone over 800 American companies had to cut their dividends because of the fallout from the subprime crisis. Now, to be fair, there is nothing secret about these stocks. You’ve probably heard of all these companies before. But to me, that’s not a deterrent. In fact, it’s part of what makes these seven stocks so attractive. That’s because in all my years… Read More

It’s one of our most popular pieces of annual research. Literally hundreds of thousands of investors have read — and profited — from this advice. And since we first started publishing our annual Top 10 Stocks list, we’ve beaten the market seven out of 10 years. For comparison, shares of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) have only beaten the market five out of the past 10 years. I’ve shared one of these stocks with you already. Last week, I told you about Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM). This tobacco company, while hated by most people, has raised its dividend… Read More

It’s one of our most popular pieces of annual research. Literally hundreds of thousands of investors have read — and profited — from this advice. And since we first started publishing our annual Top 10 Stocks list, we’ve beaten the market seven out of 10 years. For comparison, shares of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) have only beaten the market five out of the past 10 years. I’ve shared one of these stocks with you already. Last week, I told you about Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM). This tobacco company, while hated by most people, has raised its dividend nearly 85% since spinning off from its parent company in 2008. And in today’s article I’ll tell you about another one of my “Top 10 Stocks for 2014.”#-ad_banner-# But before I continue, I want to make something clear. I can’t provide you with all 10 of my “Top 10 Stocks for 2014” here. I’ve reserved the report exclusively for my Top 10 Stocks advisory subscribers. It wouldn’t be fair to them to give this list away to everyone. But I can give you something even more valuable than just a couple of stock picks… You see, I want to show… Read More

I counted twice, just to be sure… $61,417.91. That’s the amount in “daily paychecks” — more commonly known as dividends — I received from my investment portfolio in 2012. That total comes to $167.81 for each day of the year. Cash. Why am I telling you this? It’s not to brag. I was born and raised in Wisconsin. The typical Midwestern mentality is so ingrained in me, I very rarely talk about money. And I’m… Read More

I counted twice, just to be sure… $61,417.91. That’s the amount in “daily paychecks” — more commonly known as dividends — I received from my investment portfolio in 2012. That total comes to $167.81 for each day of the year. Cash. Why am I telling you this? It’s not to brag. I was born and raised in Wisconsin. The typical Midwestern mentality is so ingrained in me, I very rarely talk about money. And I’m not one to show off, either. I drive a Nissan I bought eight years ago. I get my hair cut at Supercuts. No, I’m telling you this because I honestly think what I’ve discovered is the single best way to invest, hands down.I’m talking, of course, about the “Daily Paycheck” strategy. If you’ve read StreetAuthority for even a couple of weeks, you’re likely familiar with Amy Calistri and this strategy. Amy is the Chief Strategist behind our premium newsletter, The Daily Paycheck. Her goal is to build a portfolio that pays at least one… Read More

Let me show you the easiest way to make money in stock market today! I call it the “apple tree” loophole, and I think it’s one of the best ways I know to make money in the market, especially if you don’t want to fuss over your investments every day. But before I tell you what the loophole is, let me first tell you what it’s not… It’s not illegal. It’s not confusing. And it’s not a… Read More

Let me show you the easiest way to make money in stock market today! I call it the “apple tree” loophole, and I think it’s one of the best ways I know to make money in the market, especially if you don’t want to fuss over your investments every day. But before I tell you what the loophole is, let me first tell you what it’s not… It’s not illegal. It’s not confusing. And it’s not a get-rich-quick scheme. When used properly, this loophole can greatly reduce the risk of losing money in any market. #-ad_banner-#But before I go on, I must say that there are a few caveats to how you use it. First, you have to follow this simple strategy exactly as I’ll outline below. Second, it only works with high-yield stocks and funds. It all started with a simple saying I heard years ago… “The best time to plant a tree… Read More

When I first heard this, I thought it sounded impossible.  But in just a few short years, some individual investors could start earning more than 20% — 24.92% to be exact — on their money, every year. That adds up to $2,492 a… Read More