Archive of entries posted by David Hunkar

Five European Household & Personal Goods Stocks To Consider

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Stocks from the Household & Personal Goods industry are attractive to add during any market condition for some of the following reasons: They offer stability to a portfolio when markets are volatile. These stocks pay decent and consistent dividends.Many of them also tend to increase dividends periodically. Consumers rely on products produced by these companies …

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Performance Review: Canadian Pacific vs. Canadian National

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Canadian Pacific Railway (CP), one of the two major railroads in Canada, has outperformed Canadian National (CNI) in the past few years. The former CEO of CN, Hunter Harrison became the CEO of CP in mid 2012. In the past two years CP has soared by over 161% in terms of price appreciation alone while CNI is …

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Knowledge is Power; Japan Stocks, Sharholders, Debt Edition

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The sectors to benefit from the Japanese revival (FE Trustnet) Americans go into debt to buy food, gas (MarketWatch) Five mutual fund lessons learned over 25 years (The Star) How a 2% fee adds up to $350,000 over time: Mayers (The Star) A world run for shareholders (Le Monde) Britain took more out of India that it put in – …

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The Worst Performing Foreign Bank ADR YTD: National Bank of Greece

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On May 31, 2013 I wrote an article on National bank of Greece when it implemented a second reverse split and suggested that investors avoid Greek stocks. From the article: National Bank of Greece (NBG) has implemented a reverse split for the 2nd time in less than two years. In November, 2011 when the reverse …

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Dividend Growers Lead In Total Returns Among Canadian Stocks

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Dividend-paying stocks generally yield better returns than non-dividend payers in the long run. However companies that increase their dividend payments consistently over the years perform even better in terms of total return than dividend payers. The following chart shows that dividend growers were the best in total returns for the period shown from a Canadian …

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