20 Stocks
Income stocks on sale - again!
When the stock market gets hammered like the last few days, my thoughts turn to the income stocks in my 20 Stock Portfolio. Falling prices mean higher yields, and you know these stocks will recover as long as the dividend stays intact (always the big “if” with high yielding stocks). The last time I [...]
Thornburg Mortgage: Attack of the verbs
Today Thornburg Mortgage (TMA: 0.2503 +0.0483 +23.91%) filed reports stating they had met $300 million of margin calls on approximately $3 billion of their mortgage portfolio. The financial news services wasted no time getting out their Thesauri for snappy headlines (via Yahoo Finance):
Hit - Wall Street Journal - a little lame.
Thwacked - Forbes - now [...]
Atlas Pipeline Partners - Prospects look bright
I recently listened to the year end conference call for Atlas Pipeline Partners LP (APL: 6.10 -0.57 -8.55%). The company had an outstanding 2007 and prospects look good for 2008. APL is majority owned by Atlas America (ATLS: 12.14 -1.29 -9.61%) which manages several related companies in the natural gas business. Here is an excerpt [...]
Silver Wheaton - growth slows in 2007
Silver Wheaton (SLW: 3.22 -0.31 -8.78%) has reported 4th quarter and 2007 results with record revenues and profits. For 2007 the company sold 13.1 million oz. of silver with net earnings of $91.9 million, or 41¢ per share. 2006 closed out with 13.5 million oz. sold, $85.2 million and 40¢ net. Fourth quarter 2007 and [...]
Ship Finance - Steady and Profitable
Ship Finance Ltd. (SFL: 11.43 +0.77 +7.22%) is so far under the radar that the latest earning release and conference call are not listed on either Yahoo Finance or MarketWatch under recent news. These events happened on 2/14, and just today I tracked them down on Ship Finance’s website.
As my headline indicates, SFL had a [...]
