Investment Idea Sharing May 17, 2014

This Week's Activity – May 17, 2014: 

I am always looking for fundamentally good stocks that pay a dividend of 4% or more.  Stock Evaluator ‘Short List’ is one way that I search for these fundamentally good companies.  This week at Dividend.com, I ran their ‘High Dividend Stocks by Yield’ screen ( http://www.dividend.com/dividend-stocks/high-dividend-yield-stocks.php )  Then I went down their list from the top (first place was SDR at 31.97% dividend) down to 4.0% dividend payers, and added any companies that were not already in Stock Evaluator.  This added about 200 more companies to Stock Evaluator.  In Stock Evaluator, you can always run a Descending Sort on Dividend Yield using the Control-D macro.  Notice that Stock Evaluator has a few companies paying more than SDR due to data differences between Yahoo Finance and Dividend.com. 

This week, the world market indices were mixed with minor Up/Down movements.   Except for the India BSE and CNX indexes which were both up about 5.0%.  India just had an election where the ruling “Congress” party was strongly defeated by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).  The BJP now has a clear majority and does not need to form a coalition government.   Indian stock markets are very hopeful for what this will bring the country.  Here is an article discussing the Indian election:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/17/us-india-election-idUSBREA4E0XG20140517

Summary Table of Worldwide Market Index Closing values for this week:

 http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/weekly_index_summary.GIF

Next Monthly Meeting 2^nd Tuesday of Each Month:

Tuesday, June 10, 2014, 7:30 PM at my house. 

Here are my Stock BUYs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Buy Date: 

Buy Price:  

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Stock SELLs for This Week:

Stock Symbol:

Sell Date: 

Sell Price:

Buy Price:

Buy Date:

Here are my Mutual Fund BUYs for This Week:

Fund Symbol:

Buy Date: 

Buy Price: 

Target Sell Price:

Here are my Option (CALL or PUT) Sells/Buys for This Week:

Option: Sell Covered Call

Stock Symbol: CSCO

Sell to Open Date: 5/15/2014

Expiration Date: Jan 17/2015

Strike Price: $25

Option Price: $1.05

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StockEvaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/stockevaluator_short_list.xls

‘Short List’ screens using 12 fundamental value limits that I want to see in a stock before considering it as a possible buy. 

View our training video that shows how to enter your preferred values for each of these ‘Short List’ screening limits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAwU48oEkJU

View the Stock Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/short_list_12_criteria.JPG

Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’

Download ‘Short List’ here: http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfundevaluator_short_list.xls

View the Mutual Fund Evaluator ‘Short List’ screening criteria and target limit values here:

http://www.ultimatestockfinder.com/mutualfund_short_list_criteria.JPG

Please remember to send me any other investing ideas, information or questions that you want to share with the group.

Thanks,

John D.

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