We’re in the thick of annual report season and today I skimmed through the report of the most boring company in my portfolio. It is…drum roll…Rollins. Huh? Who? Yup, that’s right. Rollins, Inc. Rollins deals with bugs, mice, termites and other pests. Reading about Rollins is about as dull as it gets. I love this […]
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I’ve been thinking a lot about my post on taking social security at 62. You can read the post here. To give you the Reader’s Digest version, I performed some analysis and determined that I’d likely be better off taking a lower social security payment at 62 and investing all of it in a low-cost
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As an equity investor, we’re looking to find great businesses in which to invest our capital. In my case, I’m retired, but I have a good chunk of my savings invested in equities – stocks and equity mutual funds – that I expect will grow over the next 20 years. I’m not looking for businesses
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My last few posts have been about the abrupt crash in the stock markets and how to hang tough during times of volatility. That’s a bit of a downer, so today we’re going to talk about getting our shopping list in order. In this case we’re not talking about milk, bread, and alternatives for the
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On February 26, 2025, I wrote a post about my optimism towards the long-term prospects of the US economy and the S&P 500. I am so confident that I put my money where my mouth is and bought $100 of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF. You can read the full post here. Here’s proof that
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This morning, the S&P 500 is down almost 6% YTD, and almost 10% from the recent highs in early February. If you read yesterday’s post, you know that as investors we need to expect pullbacks in our wealth-building journey. But it still hurts. Why does it hurt? We’re not pulling our money out of equities
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I’ve read and written a lot about investor mentality and about the difficulty of staying the course during a market pullback. None of us like to lose money. Logging in to our financial account and seeing a huge dollar drop is a bummer. When it happens day after day, it becomes draining. We feel like
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Yeah! If you’ve read my posts, you know that I’ve frequently recommended investing in a nice low-cost S&P 500 fund. Why is this? Equities Equity means ownership. Equity investments are ownership shares of businesses. And while not all businesses succeed, a basket of equities like the S&P 500 can be a great investment. I wrote
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Many of us, myself included, believe that we can grow our wealth by buying shares of publicly traded companies. There are thousands of companies that are traded on US and international exchanges, all of which are available to us as investors. So how do we choose? I’ve written a bit about analyzing companies and creating
I recently used T. Rowe Price (ticker: TROW) as an example of a stock that makes me money while I sleep. I noted that its price appreciation wasn’t great over the past 10 years, but that it paid me steady income. Here’s the 10 year chart comparing TROW to the S&P 500. That Stinks That
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