UTX News and Press, Raytheon Technologies From 08/13/19

Daniel Loeb's Third Point hedge fund says it cut its stake in United Technologies ( UTX +1% ), becoming the second activist hedge fund to sell shares following the merger announcement with Raytheon. More news on: United Technologies Corporation, Tradeweb Markets Inc., American Express ...

August is starting off on a pretty rough note even after the market received its expected rate cut from the Federal Reserve. With this, there have been suggestions that the S&P 500 could be headed south as major support somewhere lies somewhere between 2600 and 2800. This means that I ex...

Introduction The Dividend Champions list is a monthly compilation of companies which have consistently increased their annual dividend payouts, and the latest edition may be found here . However, since this list is only produced once per month, the data in it can quickly get out of date. Fu...

The iShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF (NYSE: ITA ) is an industry specific exchange-traded fund offering exposure to companies that manufacture commercial and military aircraft, along with related defense equipment and services. The fund has an inception date of May 2006 with current ...

The defense industry is enjoying quite a year of growth , with companies around the world posting significant share price increases in 2019. Of those, its the US defense industry that is outperforming the rest, thanks to a president heavy on military spending at home and harsh on allies th...

As my regular readers know one of my primary goals is to keep things simple. By keeping my investment plan simple I think it’s easier for me to carry it out and stick with it. And I’ve seen no evidence that more complicated investment plans are any more successful than simple one...

Introduction Welcome to my monthly update for my dividend growth portfolio. This article series covers my investing journey as a father of two towards my eventual retirement. Any specific stocks or amounts are particular to my self-directed 401(k) plan. The goal of my portfolio is to gen...

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital has liquidated its positions in United Technologies (NYSE: UTX ) and Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ: ADP ), Bloomberg reports. More news on: United Technologies Corporation, Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Read more ...

Source Introduction Beginning in mid-January of 2018, I wrote a series of articles that examined how far some popular large-cap cyclical stocks might fall if we were to have a downturn within the next three years. While all the articles were generally bearish in nature and meant to be ...

When a closed-end fund is trading at a large double-digit discount, it usually means that there are serious problems with the portfolio or with the management. Perhaps the assets are illiquid with questionable valuation marks. Or maybe management is incompetent and entrenched, paying itself ma...