Broadcom, Visa, Mastercard, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Costco, Apple, Home Depot, Lowe's, American Express and the DGRO, VIG and SCHD ETFs suit a dividend growth strategy, the best way to live off dividends. Payouts growing 5-8% a year can outpace inflation, and living on dividends means never selling in a crash. Steady dividend raises filter for stable cash flows, quality and solid management, dividends are easier to forecast than prices, and reinvesting them before retirement compounds share count. … Show more

Dividend growth stocks have quietly outperformed the S&P 500 for decades, making Broadcom, Visa, S&P Global, Costco, Mastercard, Texas Instruments, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Starbucks and NVIDIA ten to buy and hold forever. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

Costco, Apple, Intuitive Surgical, Alphabet and MSCI are amazing companies priced too high for their growth. Costco trades at 46x earnings on high-single-digit growth, Apple at 32x forward on low-double-digit EPS growth, and Intuitive Surgical at 38x forward on low-teens growth. Alphabet, the most attractive, is 33x operating income excluding investment gains. MSCI is 34x trailing on low-double-digit growth; S&P Global is better, cheaper and extremely high quality with similar growth. x.com  … Show more

Quality and price favor these eight stocks. Amazon improves as its multiple falls; Uber generates serious cash flow; Netflix is more profitable at a lower multiple; ServiceNow grew amid multiple compression. SoFi's appeal hinges on earnings near management's long-term expectations. McDonald's ranks among the world's highest-quality businesses at one of its more reasonable valuations in years. AI disruption weighs on Adobe's valuation; Brookfield compounds assets at a comfortable long-term price. … Show more

Blue-chip dividend stocks seem to benefit from capital rotating out of weakening large-cap tech. They strengthen when QQQ weakens, or at least temporarily absorb some of that outflow; tech weakness and blue-chip or value gains have shown a one-for-one same-day relationship right now. x.com  x.com 

Cash generation and market values have diverged for these twelve beaten-down stocks. Over the long term, valuations tend to follow the cash businesses produce; the charts compare quarterly free cash flow with market capitalization for Uber, Netflix, Intuit, Adobe, PayPal, McDonald's, Snap, Duolingo, Chewy, Pinterest, Reddit and e.l.f. Beauty. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

These 12 stocks are quality compounders sharing pricing power, recurring demand, strong returns on capital and disciplined management. Domino's earns royalties, AutoZone serves an aging fleet, Progressive underwrites with data, Waste Management owns routes and landfills, Grainger is embedded in operations, S&P Global and FICO are mission-critical, Rollins has recurring pest control, Copart an auction network, Visa a fee network, HEICO niche aerospace parts, Costco loyal members. x.com  x.com  … Show more

Low forward earnings multiples across eleven stocks cannot persist indefinitely. Nvidia trades near 17.5x, its lowest in over a decade; Oracle near 15x, its lowest in six years. Uber is at 17x, Broadcom 19x, Vistra 15x, AppLovin 14.5x, TSMC 19x, Forgent Power Solutions 18x, Nokia 19.5x, American Express 17x and Western Digital 14x. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

Nvidia, McDonald's, American Express, AutoZone, Pool Corp, Nu Holdings, Domino's Pizza and Salesforce stand out as quality companies trading under 20x forward earnings. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

Owning quality does not require paying a premium, even with the market expensive at all-time highs. DLocal, Dave, Meta, McDonald's, Lumine, Sezzle, Root, Nu, Constellation Software, Intercontinental Exchange and Uber are high-quality companies trading at 20 times earnings or less, and Fair Isaac, at 21 times, is worth including for its quality. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com