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High Yields and Debt Free

Fred Fuld (January 4th, 2009) Writes:
If you are looking for the perfect stocks, maybe your criteria for perfect includes stocks that pay high dividends. You probably also want stocks of companies that have no debt. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com came up with a list of a href="http://WallStreetNewsNetwork.com" target="_blank"35 different debt free stocks with dividends over 4%/a. Most of these stocks have price earnings ratios below 18 and price earnings to growth ratios below 1.8. Here are a few worth taking a closer look at:br /br / Pioneer Southwest (PSE) pays a yield of 14%, has a P/E ratio of 9.6, and a PEG ratio of 1.18. The company owns and operates oil and natural gas properties with 25 million barrels of oil equivalent of proven reserves. br /br / AllianceBernstein (AB) pays a yield of 11.3%, has a P/E ratio of 5.9, and a PEG ratio of 0.74. This investment management company provides mutual funds, institutional investment ...

Smoking President Portfolio: Yields as High as 11%

Fred Fuld (December 13th, 2008) Writes:
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/SUNq1diWT3I/AAAAAAAAAmk/bSjmELRaRnY/s1600-h/Cigarette.jpg"img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 231px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/SUNq1diWT3I/AAAAAAAAAmk/bSjmELRaRnY/s320/Cigarette.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5279180654902660978" //abr /Now that Barrack Obama is the president-elect, the United Stated will have the first smoking president in many years. Although he has made plans to quit smoking, he admits that he still hasn't yet stopped entirely. Will this have an effect on the consumption of cigarettes and tobacco? If you think so, and you have no objection to investing in cigarette stocks, you may want to consider the tobacco companies, especially because of their extremely high yields.br /br /Vector Group Ltd. (VGR) is a Florida based company that has numerous brands of cigarettes including Liggett, Grand Prix, Eve, Pyramid, USA and nicotine-free Quest. The stock has a PE of 15 a PEG of 1.25, and pays a yield of 11.7%.br /br /Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) makes and markets cigarettes and other ...

Playing the Auto Bailout: Yields as High as 48%

Fred Fuld (December 10th, 2008) Writes:
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/ST9XpL-ZqYI/AAAAAAAAAmc/6BFfbo-jRYU/s1600-h/ModelTFord.jpg"img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 252px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T9VXVyuEITg/ST9XpL-ZqYI/AAAAAAAAAmc/6BFfbo-jRYU/s320/ModelTFord.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278033653402282370" //abr /Investors are looking for ways to play the automobile company bailouts, without having to speculate on the General Motors (GM) or Ford (F) stocks. A safer way of speculating on the autos is by buying their convertible preferreds, notes, convertible debentures, and a href="http://stockerblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/pines-and-quibs-and-pds-oh-my.html"minibonds/a, all of which should be paid off before the common shareholders are paid off, in the event of bankruptcy.br /br /General Motors, 4.5 convertible debentures, 2032, (GXM) 25%br /br /General Motors, 5.25, 2032, convertible debentures B (GBM) 34%br /br /General Motors, 6.25, 2033, convertible debentures C (GPM) 36%br /br /General Motors 7.5, 2044, (GMS), 43%br /br /General Motors 7.375 (HGM) 44%br /br /General Motors Senior Notes (BGM) 48%br /br /General Motors 7.25 Notes (RGM) 48%br /br /General Motors 7.25 (XGM) 45%br /br /General Motors 7.25 QUIB (GMW) ...

Debt Free Stocks Selling At or Near Cash

Fred Fuld (November 21st, 2008) Writes:
If a stock is trading at the amount of cash it has, it is a pretty good buy. And if the company is debt free, it would seem that there is almost no downside. a href="http://WallStreetNewsNetwork.com"WallStreetNewsNetwork.com/a came up with over a dozen stocks that are trading at or near cash, as measured by the Price to Cash Ratio, all with market caps over $500 million, and all without any debt. br /br /For example, optionsXpress Holdings, Inc. (OXPS) has no dept, trades for around 11.50 per share, and has $9 per share in cash. Not only that, they have a forward yield of 7.5 and pay a yield of 2.5%.br /br /Another example is KBR, Inc. (KBR), another no debt company, which trades for 9.86 per share with 6.87 in cash per share. The have a forward PE of 5.5 and pay a yield of 1.7%.br /br /It's nice to ...

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