Archive of entries posted by David Hunkar

Five Large-Cap Foreign Companies To Consider Instead of Their U.S. Peers

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The dividend yield of the S&P 500 has stayed at around 2% for many years.Investors looking for higher yields can consider foreign equities many of which have much higher dividend yields.Traditionally European companies tend to have higher dividend yields than U.S. firms. Despite withholding taxes on dividends imposed on U.S. investors by most foreign governments and other …

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Can the U.S. Become the Top Exporter of Manufactured Goods ?

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The U.S. economy is the world’s largest economy with an GDP of over $16.0 Trillion. However much of the U.S. economy output  is derived from the service sector not manufacturing of goods. Service sectors includes everything from flipping burgers at a fast food store to preparing taxes for a customer to creating and shuffling paperwork around …

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Royal Bank of Scotland Stock Is Dead Money

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The Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) started trading on the NYSE in late 2007. Since then the stock has been as disaster for investors. The global financial crisis crushed RBS. But while other global banks have recovered since then RBS stock continues to be dead money. The long-term chart below shows the disaster that …

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S&P 500 Index Calendar-Year Returns and Market Corrections 1980–2013

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The S&P 500 closed at a record 2,000 yesterday. The index first crossed that milestone the day before. The following quote from The Heard on the Street column in  The Wall Street Journal puts this figure in perspective: As Howard Silverblatt of S&P Dow Jones Indices points out, it has taken 16 years for the benchmark …

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The Top 25 Global Public Companies by Cash on Balance Sheet

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The Global Finance magazine published the  second annual Global Cash 25 ranking last month. This ranking is based on the cash and cash equivalents held by public companies on their balance sheets. The 25 companies were selected from a list of 70,000 listed companies worldwide. The Top 25 Global Public Companies by Cash on Balance Sheet are …

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