ITW News and Press, Illinois Tool Works Inc. From 04/01/19

Q1 was a good quarter The purpose of this 30-stock portfolio is to provide supplemental retirement income. The portfolio rose along with the broader market, gaining 13.66% in the first quarter. In Q1, I began taking monthly disbursements from the portfolio. During the December market decli...

(Source: imgflip ) Introduction To The Bunker Dividend Growth Portfolio I'm a huge fan of dividend growth stocks and dream of eventually becoming financially independent as defined by being able to live on 50% of my post-tax annual dividends alone. Being able to live 100% off passiv...

Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Analysts Predict 10.4% To 23.85% Aristocrat Net Gains To April 2020 Four of the ten top Aristocrats by yield were verified as being among these top ten gainers for the coming year based on analyst one-year target prices. (They are tinted gray in the chart bel...

(Source: imgflip ) Due to reader requests, I've decided to break up my weekly "Best Dividend Stocks To Buy This Week" series into two parts. One will be the weekly watchlist article (with the best ideas for new money at any given time). The other will be the update on the Deep Value...

We Are In For a Rough Ride On Friday, the 10-year Treasury yield (long bonds) crossed the rate on the 3-month bill, and economists like to call this yield curve inversion. This implies that we are closer to a recession than before. However, I want you to understand that the return from the s...

The markets have continued their steady move upwards since the beginning of this year, as visible from the chart below. Stocks are no longer cheap as the market is only about 4% below its all-time high. However, it has yet to make a new high. Most market participants believe that bulls are bac...

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It wasn't that long ago that the market was tanking and we saw even more articles than normal on MarketWatch implying that the results were in and the best of the market had already passed us by. For those who were paying close attention to their portfolios, it wasn't uncommon to see a drop of...

(Source: imgflip ) Due to reader requests, I've decided to break up my weekly "Best Dividend Stocks To Buy This Week" series into two parts. One will be the weekly watchlist article (with the best ideas for new money at any given time). The other will be the update on the Deep Value...

(Source: imgflip ) Introduction To The Bunker Dividend Growth Portfolio I'm a huge fan of dividend growth stocks and dream of eventually becoming financially independent as defined by being able to live on 50% of my post-tax annual dividends alone. Being able to live 100% off passive ...