Showing posts with label Great Recession. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

60 Minutes Segment: 401k Recession

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Brandywine Realty Trust - BDN

Brandywine Realty Trust's, stock ticker BDN, current dividend yield is a whopping 7.09%. Each share will cost you $8.46, which is 47.5% discount from it's price of $17.78 on August 15th, 2008. At that time BDN was paying a dividend of $0.44 per share. BDN was hit pretty hard during the Great Recession, but they have survived and maintained their stance in the REIT arena.

BDN is one of the largest, publicly traded, full-service, integrated real estate companies in the United States. Brandywine operates as a real estate investment trust and owns, develops and manages a primarily Class-A suburban and urban office portfolio. BDN is headquartered in Radnor, PA and maintains regional operations in Pennsylvania, Metro DC, New Jersey, Richmond, Delaware, Texas, Northern California, and Southern California.

Do the math. If you invested $5,000.00 today, you would receive about 591 shares. You would receive $88.65 of dividends in January 2012 and every three months for the rest of your life. And that's 1) without reinvesting your dividends, 2) excluding stock price increases and 3) dividend increases. Consider this. 591 shares of BDN with a dividend growth rate of 0.5% per year and a stock price growth rate of 1% per year for 30 years. At year 30, with your dividends reinvested, you would have 4,062.28 shares, $35,836.73 dividends paid and a total value of $46,321.41. And this is with modest stock and dividend growth rates. Reinvesting your dividends is what it's all about!

Feel free to visit BDN's website at http://www.brandywinerealty.com, and their Investor relations page at http://www.brandywinerealty.com/investor-relations.asp to learn more about this solid company. There is no real good reason not to include BDN in your Roth IRA stock portfolio. Each Roth IRA should include at least one REIT. There are some great ones and add BDN to that list. Real estate may never get back to the bubble height it was once a few years ago, but it will slowly improve over the years. BDN will too. Since it's a REIT the dividend will improve along with it! Watch the videos below to learn more about BDN and more reasons why I believe it is a solid REIT, especially at this reduced price.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Emerson Electric Co. - EMR

Emerson Electric Co., stock ticker EMR,  is a diversified global technology company. Emerson was founded in 1890 in St. Louis, Missouri, as a manufacturer of electric motors and fans. Emerson has approximately 127,700 employees and 240 manufacturing locations worldwide. EMR designs and supplies product technology and delivers engineering services and solutions in a range of industrial, commercial and consumer markets around the world. They have five business segments:
  • Process Management - provides measurement, control and diagnostic capabilities for automated industrial processes producing items.
  • Industrial Automation - provides integrated manufacturing solutions to diverse industries worldwide.
  • Network Power - provides power conditioning and environmental control to help keep telecommunication systems, data networks and other business applications operating.
  • Climate Technologies - provides household and commercial comfort, as well as food safety and energy efficiency.
  • Tools and Storage - provides tools for professionals and homeowners, home and commercial storage systems, and appliance solutions.
EMR has been on a good run and although it has slowed and pulled back some recently it still remains an interesting long term investment. The company trades pretty closely with the market and unfortunately has rode the market down since the beginning of August 2011. The weakening of Emerson’s share price has started to put it on the radar for dividend investors.

EMR has grown its dividend payout over the last five years, even during the Great Recession. They pay shareholders $0.34 per share, which is a 3.02% dividend yield. EMR is currently trading at only 11.7 time forward earnings. They look like a nice purchase for the "Common Man" dividend value investor. EMR has a diverse product line and worldwide market share. Click here to learn more about the diversity of their products and why they are just so great! Also, their Investor Relations page, here. Picking up this stock for your Roth IRA stock portfolio is a must. Are you on the fence regarding whether this stock is right for you? Okay, watch below.



Thursday, September 1, 2011

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company - DD

One of my recent winners is Dupont, stock ticker DD aka E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. DD manufactures a range of products for distribution and sale to many different markets, including the transportation, safety and protection, motor vehicle, home furnishings, medical, electronics, communications and the nutrition and health markets. DD's market cap is 44.59 billion, yes billion.

During the Great Recession DD sold for $16.87 on March 6th, 2009 and rose to $55.42 on July 8th, 2011. Of course, it was hard to predict that the market would have such an excellent run up, however DD's stock price as of today is $47.82 with a $0.41 per share dividend, at a 3.43% dividend yield. DD sticks around the $40 to $50 price range.

Click here and watch the video below to learn more about this stable company on the rise! Pick up some DD on Monday and hold it in your Roth IRA for life!

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