Dividend Yield 101
Fool's School
A company's "dividend yield" expresses the relationship of two numbers: a stock's price and the amount of its annual dividend. It's a number investors need to understand. Consider General Electric. It was recently trading around $30 per share, paying out 31 cents per quarter ($1.24 per year) as a dividend. Take $1.24 and divide it by $30, and you'll get 0.04. Full Story
Name That Company
I was born as a cooperative in 1921, dedicated to making butter from sweet cream and offering it in quarter-pound sticks, vs. the thenstandard butter made from sour cream and sold in tubs. Today I'm a national, farmer-owned Fortune 500 company, with annual sales topping $8 billion and a full line of dairy-based consumer, food service and food ingredient products. Full Story
Automakers Slammed Into Reverse
The Motley Fool Take
Car sales in June hit their lowest level in more than a decade. General Motors, for example, saw its U.S. sales drop by 18.5 percent. That's one reason behind the company's recent announcement that it's cutting workers, production and its entire dividend. It may even sell some of its model lines. Full Story
Premature Celebration
My Dumbest Investment
I suffer from a horrible affliction: premature celebration. I find a good investment, make a little bit of profit, sell WAY too early, celebrate my modest success, and then watch the stock take off. For example, in 2003 I bought PetroQuest Energy at $2 a share. After a few months, I sold at $2.60. Yay for me! Fast-forward. The stock was recently trading around $24. Full Story
Last week's trivia answer
Born in 1971 and based in Ohio, not St. Louis, I'm an $87 billion global manufacturer and distributor of medical and surgical supplies and technologies. I serve hospitals, medical centers, retail and mail-order pharmacies, clinics, physicians and pharmacists, among others. I make more than 50,000 deliveries to 40,000 customer sites daily. Full Story
Stop Stop Losses
Ask the Fool
Q I've set some stop orders on stocks I bought at around 15 to 20 percent below the current price. This has resulted in my selling promising stocks before they have a chance to perform. What am I doing wrong? - R.H., Chattanooga, Tenn. Full Story
What Is This Thing Called The Motley Fool?
Remember Shakespeare? Remember "As You Like It"? In Elizabethan days, Fools were theonly people who could get away with telling the truth to the King or Queen. The Motley Fool tells the truth about investing, and hopes y ou'll laugh all the way to the bank. Full Story
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