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5 Stocks To Watch For Gains Next Week

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By Brian Nichols:

Last week’s “5 Stocks to Watch” performed fairly well, as four of the five selections traded higher. For this week’s edition, I am hoping to have continued success as I choose five stocks in five different industries that are all showing signs of a breakout higher. Each stock below is trading with a great deal of momentum yet range in company size and has seen a variety of different performance levels. With that said, let’s get started and take a look at five stocks that could rally in the immediate future.

After Breaking $50 this Stock Looks Poised to Trade Higher

For what it’s worth, I hate to be a fair-weather fan, but shares of Citigroup (C) are rocketing higher with a complete change in sentiment and I am starting to like it more than my long-time favorite Wells Fargo (WFC). Last week the stock exploded from


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The Case For A 100% Dividend Stock Portfolio

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This post is aimed at investors who are not at all bothered by volatility and make investments based solely on the long-term earnings power (and dividend potential) of the companies they select. If the thought of experiencing price declines of 30%, 40% or 50% would cause you to abandon the strategy, then I will be the first to say that the construction of a 100% dividend portfolio is not for you, and would possibly erase years and years of hard work and savings if you tried to implement it.

However, if you do make decisions based solely on earnings power, it is possible that you may consider a portfolio that consists exclusively of high-quality companies that pay dividends to shareholders, and have strong records of increasing their payouts to shareholders by growing profits at satisfactory risk-adjusted rates over almost all five-year rolling periods.

A large part of the reason why


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Ford Motor’s CEO Presents at 2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders Conference (Transcript)

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Ford Motor Company (F)

2013 Annual Meeting of Shareholders Conference Call

May 9, 2013 8:30 am ET

Executives

William Clay Ford, Jr. – Executive Chairman

Alan Mulally – President and Chief Executive Officer

Bradley Gayton – Corporate Secretary and Assistant General Counsel

David G. Leitch – Group Vice President and General Counsel

Robert L. Shanks – Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Presentation

William Clay Ford Jr.

Well, good morning and welcome. I am Bill Ford, Chairman of your Board of Directors, and it’s my privilege to call to order our 58th Annual Meeting of Shareholders. I want to welcome the shareholders who have joined us in Wilmington, as well as those listening on the Internet, and on the investor phone bridge. We’re glad you could all be here.

At this time, I’d like to introduce the company officers here on stage with me. On my right,

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Team Alpha Retirement Portfolio: Impressive Returns Plus Impressive Dividend Hikes

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By Regarded Solutions:

This month’s update for the Team Alpha Retirement Portfolio is unique. Not because the month was wonderful, actually the gains were minor, but because for the month of April, we made no major changes to the portfolio aside from swapping PFF for WFC. When all was said and done, the portfolio continues to show impressive gains.

The Team Alpha portfolio consists of Ford (F) Chevron (CVX) Apple (AAPL), McDonald’s (MCD), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), AT&T (T), General Electric (GE), BlackRock Kelso Capital (BKCC), KKR Financial (KFN), Procter & Gamble (PG), CSX Corp. (CSX), Realty Income (O), Coca-Cola (KO), Annaly Capital (NLY), Cisco (CSCO), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Healthcare Select Sector SPDR (XLV), and Wells Fargo (WFC).

I wrote this article, in which I stated that there are


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5 Stocks Trading At A Discount Poised To Advance

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By David Alton Clark:

The Gist

In the following sections I will review five stocks on my watch list I am looking to buy at a discount. These stocks are trading on average 33% below their 52 week highs and have 17% upside on average based on consensus estimates. These facts alone mean little, but it is a good starting point when looking for undervalued stocks. The fact is these stocks are all long-term investments with solid secular stories for future growth. With the market near all-time highs it is important to look for companies with improving fundamentals. I believe these stocks will outperform the market in the coming months based on these facts.

The Goods

In the following sections we will perform a review of the fundamental and technical state of each company to determine if this is the right time to buy. Furthermore, I will discussion the potential growth catalysts for each


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Billionaire David Tepper’s Long-Term High-Dividend Stock Picks

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By Eric Winter

For the retail investor tracking the holdings of hedge funds, positions held a year or longer by managers can convey a strong sense of support for those companies. Stocks that reside in a portfolio for a longer term have certain holding period benefits that include lower capital gains taxes and an increased opportunity to collect dividend payments. We have taken this information into account and have created a strategy that has returned 37% between September 2012 and March 2013 versus 12.9% for the S&P 500 (see the details here). We create such strategies by sifting through large amounts of hedge fund data for actionable information. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the best dividend-paying stocks that billionaire David Tepper has held in his portfolio for a year or greater.

Chimera Investment Corp. (CIM) takes the top spot with its


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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

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Intel net profit slumps 25%. Intel’s (INTC) Q1 net profit fell 25% to $2.05B as the company continued to be hurt by the slump in the global PC market. Adjusted EPS of $0.40 slightly missed expectations while revenue slipped 2.5% to $12.58B and also undershot forecasts. However, Intel said it should recover in H2 and probably generate “double-digit revenue growth for the year,” boosted by the improving economy and sales of its Haswell chips for ultrabook computers. Shares were -0.5% premarket.

European car sales continue to plunge. European car registrations dropped for the 18th consecutive month in March, slumping 10% to 1.35M vehicles. Germany led the way as sales skidded 17%, while Spain, Italy and France all fell, although the U.K. rose 5.9%. GM’s (GM) registrations dropped 13%, Ford’s (F) 16% and Toyota’s (TM) 17%, although Honda’s (HMC) rose 17%. "People have stopped buying cars


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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

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Dish bids $25.5B for Sprint. Dish Network (DISH) has bid $25.5B in cash and stock for Sprint, with the $7-a-share offer representing a 13% premium to Softbank’s proposal to acquire 70% of Sprint for $20.1B. The bid is also 12.5% above Sprint’s close of $6.22 on Friday. The offer marks Dish’s boldest attempt yet to move into the cellular market; while the satellite-TV company has bought plenty of spectrum, it’s hit regulatory obstacles in its quest to use it for mobile purposes. Sprint was +10.9% premarket.

Precious metals in vicious sell-off. Gold futures (GLD) were -6.05% at $1416.80 an ounce premarket, continuing a sell-off that began last week and has turned into a full-scale stampede. A number of reasons have been given for gold’s free-fall, chief among them the ECB’s pressurization of Cyprus’ central bank to sell its gold reserves to help pay for


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