Chuck Carnevale

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• Dividends Provide A Return Bonus

  Published 21 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  With all things being equal, dividend paying common stocks provide their shareholders a return bonus, or what some might like to call a kicker, over…

• Most Eastern Utility Stocks Are Overvalued - Part 4

  Published 10 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  This is our fourth and final installment on assessing the relative valuation of utility stocks today. Our first installment part 1 looked at utility stocks…

• Investing in Central Utility Stocks - Do Today's Valuations Make Sense? Part 3

  Published 06 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  This is the third in my series on investing in utility stocks based on the sector's current valuation levels. The series was initially inspired by…

• Investing in Western Utility Stocks - Do Today's Valuations Make Sense Part 2

  Published 31 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Introduction In part 1 of this series on utilities published on July 26, 2012, we looked at the utility sector with a broad brush. In…

• If You Own Utility Stocks, Consider Selling The Overvalued Ones - Part 1

  Published 25 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Introduction Recently, I've come across several discussions by dividend growth investors as to whether the utility sector is overvalued or not today. Therefore, I decided…

• Readers' Choice Calculating Fair Value on Transalta, Southern Company and Exelon

  Published 24 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  This blog post is presented in response to questions and comments on recent articles I published. Therefore, I offer this following post to clarify certain…

• How to Forecast Future Stock Returns: Part 3 - Introduction

  Published 16 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  In Part 1 and Part 2 of this three-part series, we established the basic principles of valuation and provided evidence that backs those principles up.…

• How to Know What Rate of Return to Expect from your Stocks: Part 2

  Published 05 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Introduction In Part 1 of this series found here, we voiced the notion that there are two primary attributes, valuation and the rate of change…

• How to Know What Rate of Return to Expect from your Stocks: Part 1

  Published 29 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Introduction We believe there are two critical attributes that the prudent investor should consider before investing in a company (stock). Furthermore, these same two attributes…

• My Best Investment Advice - Watch Your Fellow Investors And Do The Opposite

  Published 01 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  In my opinion, the recent selloff in stocks defies commonsense and logic, but in truth and fact it usually does. In other words, it's not…

• Our Top 40 Favorite Dividend Champions

  Published 23 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Blue-chip Dividend Growth Stocks Today's Strong Option for Retirement Portfolios Part 2 In part one of this two-part series (Found Here) I laid the groundwork…

• IBM Proving That Value Investing Is Not A Form Of Market Timing

  Published 08 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Throughout my career, I have often come across those who believe that value investing is a form of market timing. This misconception seems to be…

• Newsflash: The Dividend Aristocrats Found The Lost Decade

  Published 01 May 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Introduction There are many people who continue to hold a jaundiced view of stocks because they were traumatized by the last two recessions. Precipitous drops…

• Yes, They Do: Low Interest Rates Do Make Stocks Cheap

  Published 26 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Introduction: Pessimism Is For Losers I'm inspired to write this article because I am so frustrated by the plethora of all the so-called expert market…

• Diversification: Is It All It's Cracked Up To Be?

  Published 19 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  There's an old cliché about real estate investing that states that the three cardinal rules are: location- location- location. Clever pundits have borrowed upon this…

• A True Investor's Most Important Performance Measurement

  Published 16 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Although most people either fail to realize it, or simply refused to accept it, every stock portfolio has two separate and distinct performances. The first,…

• Volatility Is Not Risk

  Published 12 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  This article was inspired by Roger Nusbaum's post on his Random Roger blog - Sunday Morning Coffee on Sunday, April 8, 2012. Roger is a…

• If You Think All Utility Stocks Are The Same - Think Again

  Published 05 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  I have recently seen comments on articles oriented to the dividend growth investor where people were suggesting that in general, utilities have recently become overvalued.…

• Five Undervalued Dividend Paying Retailers

  Published 02 April 2012 | viewed 0 times

  We believe the retail sector is currently a mixed bag where some of the best names are currently too pricey to buy. Retailers such as…

• There Is Nothing Uniform About UniFirst Corporation's Profits

  Published 28 March 2012 | viewed 0 times

  UniFirst Corporation (UNF) is one of the nation's largest providers of uniforms and accessory products to businesses of all types. Today the stock is up…