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3 High Dividend Blue Chip Stocks to Watch Now

In some ways, high dividend blue chip stocks represent the best of two worlds for investors. First, you get the stability and reliability of blue chip stocks. And second, you get a steady income from high dividends. These reasons are why many investors buy these stocks.
Blue chip stocks represent some of the biggest players in business like Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) and General Mills (NYSE: GIS). They are industry leaders, household names and stocks that should be profitable investments for a long time to come.
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Is Intel’s Dividend Safe?

Intel (Nasdaq: INTC) has been losing some market share to Advanced Micro Devices (Nasdaq: AMD). Now, more investors are concerned and wondering… is Intel’s dividend safe? For the short answer, Intel still remains a cashflow machine. And the dividend seems to be safe over the next few years.
Intel’s dividend history is long and it might make a great addition to an income portfolio. Let’s take a closer look at the business, dividend history and payout safety going forward.
Intel Business Highlights
Intel is a $210 billion dollar business. The company is based out of Santa Clara, California and it employs 110,800 people. …read more […]

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Why General Electric (GE) Stock is a Compelling Investment Case

Vulcan Value Partners recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Large Cap Composite fund posted a return of 24.5% for the second quarter (net of fees), outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 20.5% in the same quarter. You should check out Vulcan Value […] …read more […]

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Why Salesforce.com (CRM) Stock is a Compelling Investment Case

Vulcan Value Partners recently released its Q2 2020 Investor Letter, a copy of which you can download here. The Large Cap Composite fund posted a return of 24.5% for the second quarter (net of fees), outperforming its benchmark, the S&P 500 Index which returned 20.5% in the same quarter. You should check out Vulcan Value […] …read more […]

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The One Thing Great Investors Focus On

In previous columns, I’ve discussed why market timing – the attempt to be in the market for the rallies and out for the corrections – is a deeply flawed investment approach.
(The rare exceptions – every decade or so – are market extremes, when sky-high valuations are accompanied by unbridled optimism about the future or when rock-bottom valuations coexist with abject pessimism.)
Around 95% of the time, the market itself is neither an urgent sell nor a table-pounding buy. (Although the same cannot be said for individual securities.)

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