Compound dividend investing has a phenomenal effect over time. It is extremely difficult to realize these extraordinary gains, since the great effects are usually seen towards the end of the process. This means having supreme patience and requiring a tremendous amount of discipline. Let's be honest, most of us are looking for the homerun stock to tell about during the next holiday dinner. This strategy works like magic and for the younger investors who have plenty of time, there are huge gains to be made if done correctly.
The companies that will have the most beneficial impact with this compound dividend strategy are the ones that have a history of high dividend growth and a healthy current dividend yield. By high dividend growth, we are referring to companies that have increased their dividends on average by over 4 percent per year. Also important is the history of increased dividends. It is imperative to search for the companies that have managed to pay dividends at a consistent pace for numerous years without much fluctuation. Management prides itself in this consistency and does everything to maintain its status of dividend increases.
Top High Dividend Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Liberty Media Corporation(LINTA)
Liberty Interactive, Inc. markets and sells a range of consumer products in the United States and internationally, primarily by means of televised shopping programs on the QVC networks and via the Internet through its Websites. It also provides online content, products, and services to consumers, publishers, and advertisers; performance gear products for backpacking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, trail running, and adventure travel; supplements, clothing, tanning supplies, accessories, and other bodybuilding products, as well as hosts an online site where visitors could network and exchange information related to bodybuilding; nutraceutical and cosmeceutical products; integration and fulfillment solutions for multi-channel ecommerce merchants; online invitation and social event planning service; tools and information needed to research, plan, book, and experience travel for business and leisure travelers; and gift ideas and interactive, personalized shopping services. In addition, the company offers retailer and interactive lifestyle network products through television home shopping programming on HSN television network and HSN.com; membership services to the vacation ownership industry; commerce, content, and community converge services; perishable products; residential and commercial video, high-speed data, and voice services over its broadband cable systems; and filmed entertainment, interactive services, television networks, cable systems, and music and publishing. Further, it operates as a catalog and online retailer of party supplies and costumes; ecommerce and traditional retailer of premium baby gear and products that provide parents an assortment of products for their babies, such as travel gear, feeding, d�or, and toys; and an online lending and real estate business, which matches consumers with lenders and loan brokers. The company is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Lawrence Meyers]
InterActiveCorp (IACI) is Barry Diller�� conglomerate of internet companies, not terribly different from John Malone�� Liberty Interactive (LINTA). The strategy for IACI stock has been to wait for a leader in a given sector to emerge and then buy it up, or at least a portion of it. These businesses either have a history of generating lots of cash flow, or have the potential to do so.
- [By Anders Bylund]
Robert "Dob" Bennett was CEO of Liberty Interactive (NASDAQ: LINTA ) from 1997 to 2005. He steered the Internet-leaning company through the dot-com bust and came out stronger. Under Bennett's leadership, Liberty Interactive grew annual sales from $1.2 billion to $7.6 billion. He's been known to stand up to Liberty chairman John Malone on occasion, and he still serves as a board member or executive in several of Liberty's offshoots.
- [By Victor Selva]
The company has a current ratio of 13.45% which is higher than the one registered by Liberty Interactive Corp (LINTA). But for investors looking for a higher ROE, Time Warner Cable, DISH Network Corp (DISH), Rogers Communications, Inc. (RCI), Shaw Communications, Inc. (SJR) and Tivo, Inc. (TIVO) could be better options.
Hot High Dividend Companies To Own For 2014: Geron Corporation (GERN)
Geron Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, develops therapies for cancer. Its clinical development product candidates include Imetelstat, a telomerase inhibitor, which is in Phase II clinical trials for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, advanced non-small cell lung cancer, thrombocythemia, and myeloma. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Paul Ausick]
Stocks on the Move: Veeva Systems Inc. (NYSE: VEEV) is up a whopping 85.5% at $37.15 on huge demand following its IPO. Geron Corp. (NYSE: GERN) is up 39.7% at $4.37. Molycorp Inc. (NYSE: MCP) is down 1.8% at $5.48 following a secondary stock offering.
- [By Paul Ausick]
The most heavily traded and wildly swinging Nasdaq stock today is Geron Corp. (NASDAQ: GERN). Shares are down 61.70% at $1.69 in a 52-week range of $0.98 to $7.79. The company has been ordered to put a hold on an investigational new drug application. Geron�� share volume was more than 11-times the daily average of around 4.5 million shares traded.
Hot High Dividend Companies To Own For 2014: CafePress Inc (PRSS)
CafePress Inc. (CafePress), incorporated on October 15, 1999, is an e-commerce platform enabling customers globally to create, buy and sell a range of customized and personalized products. It serves its customers, including both consumers and content owners, through its portfolio of e-commerce Websites, including its Website, CafePress.com. Its consumers include individuals, groups, businesses and organizations. These products include clothing and accessories, art and posters, stickers, home accents and stationery. Its content owners include individual designers, as well as artists and branded content licensors. During the year ended December 31, 2011, it shipped over 7.8 million products from a catalog of over 320 million products. It operates a portfolio of branded Websites, including CafePress.com, and enable resellers and co-branded websites to design and customize products, which target specific consumers, products and use cases, or to provide their customers with product customization capabilities. During 2011, it had nearly 130,000 new images uploaded to its retail e-commerce Websites on average per week. In October 2011, the Company acquired L&S Retail Ventures, Inc. In April 2012, it acquired all of the assets of Logo'd Softwear, Inc. On October 25, 2012, the Company acquired EZ Prints, Inc.
The Company generates revenues from sales of customized products through its e-commerce Websites and associated charges. In addition, it generates revenues from fulfillment services, including print and production services provided to third parties. Consumers purchase customized products directly from Website or through storefronts hosted by CafePress. Customized products include user-designed products, as well as products designed by its content owners. The Company�� services evolved into a platform consist of front-end design and sales channels, and back-end services platform. Its e-commerce Websites and sales channels include CafePress.com, CanvasOnDemand.com, Imagekind.com, GreatBigCanv! as.com, InvitationBox.com, CafePress content owners, branded product manufacturers, other retailers and distributed sales. CanvasOnDemand.com takes photographs and transforms them into canvas artwork. Imagekind.com is where consumers can find artwork by independent artists that can be produced on posters, canvases and framed wall art. GreatBigCanvas.com is a provider of canvas wall art and panoramic canvas photographs. InvitationBox.com is an online provider of stationery products, including invitations, announcements and other products and gifts.
Content owners, including designers, artists, small businesses, groups, clubs and organizations, use the Company�� e-commerce platform to design their own products and sell them through their own hosted e-commerce shop. In addition to such individual content owners, entertainment and publishing companies also license to its materials related to their products for creation of their own shops, online store experiences appearing embedded in their Websites but hosted by it, or for sale directly by it in its marketplaces. By supplying custom design tools and manufacturing services, it enables product manufacturers, such as Sigg and TomTom to offer customized designs on their products. It supplies distributors and resellers with short-run and quick-turn custom printed products. Its back-end services form a platform consisting of the components, which can be used to create front-end buyer and seller experiences, which include user-generated content, licensed fan content, design tools, shops, print/production and fulfillment. Content owners sell their own custom merchandise using its turn-key shops platform, which includes hosting, payment processing, marketing services, fulfillment and customer service. The Company offers users printing on over 600 product stock keeping units (SKUs). It processes and ship orders within three business days after a customer places an order and in many instances can ship orders within 24 hours after an order is placed.
!Merchandise Assortment
Users visiting one of the Company e-commerce Websites can select from over 600 SKUs of merchandise to customize. Its merchandise catalog includes clothing and accessories, which include t-shirts, sweatshirts, baby products, bags and hats; arts, posters and signs, which include posters, framed art, canvas art, wall decals and signs; stickers and flair, which include stickers, buttons and device cases; home ascents, which include mugs, water bottles and clocks, and stationery, such as business cards, invitations, calendars and journals.
Online Designers
The Company�� portfolio of e-commerce Websites are designed to make product customization simple and easy. Once a product has been selected, users can perform a range of design and editing functions, including uploading their own designs and photos; adding text; adding stock art; scaling and rotating images to fit products; repositioning product elements using conventional and intuitive drag-and-drop functionality; changing fonts or font characteristics, and changing color schemes.
Shops
The Company�� shops platform allows users to sell and market their designed merchandise to their own communities. In addition to customizing the products that they sell, content owners may also customize the look and feel of shops, through which they sell their products. It provides a range of tools to help users market and manage their stores, including basic search engine optimization, e-mail list management and real-time sales reports.
Design, sales and customer service support
The Company is providing customer service, including phone, e-mail and chat support. Its support centers also offer design support to members customizing their own items receive finished products.
The Company competes with Amazon.com, eBay, Etsy, CustomInk, Spreadshirt, Threadless, Zazzle, VistaPrint and Shutterfly.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By CRWE]
CafePress Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSS), The World’s Customization EngineTM, reported an expansion of its longstanding partnership with National Geographic, one of the world’s largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations, with the launch of a new art shop, bringing its legendary photography collection to life on canvas and framed art pieces.
- [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]
www.fossil.com From the world's largest retailer stepping up with fresh financials to a maker of fashionable timepieces proving that it can still grow in this unwelcome climate for watchmakers, here are some of the things that will help shape the week that lies ahead on Wall Street. Monday -- Sounds Good DTS (DTSI) has carved a cozy living providing sound-enhancing technology in Blu-ray players, video game consoles and other devices. Despite its success, DTS is trading a lot closer to its 52-week low than its 52-week high. One thing holding it back is that it has failed to impress the market with its quarterly financials. It's coming off back-to-back quarters of falling short of Wall Street's profit expectations. It's against this setting that DTS will step up after Monday's market close to deliver its latest results. Will the streak of disappointment stretch to three quarters, or is DTS finally going to put out a report that looks as good as its audio technology sounds? We will know soon. Tuesday -- Fossil Fuel Fossil (FOSL) may seem to be toiling away in an industry worthy of its name. Aren't wristwatches dinosaurs? Who wears watches anymore when we have smartwatches to tell us the time. Folks with active lifestyles are saving their wrists for fitness bracelets. Well, Fossil is growing just nicely in this environment, thank you very much. When the trendy watchmaker reports on Tuesday analysts see revenue climbing 13 percent. They see top-line growth of 10 percent for all of 2014. Fossil's profitability isn't expected to clock in as nicely, but unlike DTS,we've seen Fossil blow Wall Street's profit targets away consistently over the past year. Wednesday -- Press Hard CafePress (PRSS) has been a disappointment for investors since going public at $19 two years ago. The stock opened higher on its first day of trading, but it's been mostly downhill for the shares, which now fetch less than a third of the initial public offering price. CafePress was hoping
Hot High Dividend Companies To Own For 2014: Newport Corporation(NEWP)
Newport Corporation and its subsidiaries provide technology products and systems to scientific research, microelectronics, aerospace and defense/security, life and health sciences, and industrial markets in the United States, Europe, and the Pacific Rim. The company operates in three divisions: Photonics and Precision Technologies (PPT), Lasers, and Ophir. The PPT division provides photonics instruments and systems; vibration isolation systems and subsystems; precision positioning devices, systems, and subsystems; optics and optical hardware; opto-mechanical subassemblies and subsystems; and advanced manufacturing systems. It also offers automated systems for various applications in the manufacture of solar panels, and communications and electronic devices, including microwave, optical, radio frequency, and multi-chip modules. The Lasers division provides laser and laser-based system, such as ultrafast lasers and systems, diode-pumped solid state Q-switched lasers, diode-p umped solid state continuous wave (CW) and quasi-CW lasers, pulsed Nd:YAG and tunable lasers, and gas lasers. The Ophir division offers optics, photonics instruments, and three-dimensional non-contact measurement equipment and sensors. It also provides laser instrumentation, including laser power and energy meters, and laser beam profilers. This division serves the scientific research, microelectronics, aerospace, defense/security, life and health sciences, and industrial markets. The company offers its products under the ILX Lightwave, New Focus, Newport, Ophir, Optimet, Oriel Instruments, Richardson Gratings, Spiricon, and Spectra-Physics names. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and end-user customers through direct sales organizations, a network of independent distributors, and sales representatives, as well as through product catalogs and Web sites. Newport Corporation was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Evan Niu, CFA]
What: Shares of Newport (NASDAQ: NEWP ) got crushed today, down by as much as 12% after the company reported earnings that fell short of expectations.
- [By Brian Stoffel]
Rofin-Sinar (NASDAQ: RSTI ) , Coherent (NASDAQ: COHR ) , Newport (NASDAQ: NEWP ) , and JDS Uniphase (NASDAQ: JDSU ) all offer fiber-optic lasers as well.
Hot High Dividend Companies To Own For 2014: QUALCOMM Incorporated(QCOM)
QUALCOMM Incorporated engages in the development, design, manufacture, and marketing of digital wireless telecommunications products and services. The company operates in four segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), Qualcomm Wireless and Internet (QWI), and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI). The QCT segment develops and supplies code division multiple access (CDMA)-based integrated circuits and system software for wireless voice and data communications, multimedia functions and global positioning system products. The QTL segment grants licenses to use portions of its intellectual property portfolio comprising patent rights useful in the manufacture and sale of wireless products, such as products implementing cdmaOne, CDMA2000, WCDMA, CDMA TDD, GSM/GPRS/EDGE, and/or OFDMA standards and their derivatives The QWI segment consists of Qualcomm Internet Services that provides content enablement services for the wireless industry and pu sh-to-talk and other products and services for wireless network operators; Qualcomm Government Technologies, which offers development, hardware, and analytical services to the United States government agencies involving wireless communications technologies; Qualcomm Enterprise Services that provides satellite and terrestrial-based two-way data messaging, position reporting, wireless application services, and managed data services to transportation and logistics companies and other enterprise companies; and Firethorn, which builds and manages software applications that enable mobile commerce services. The QSI segment makes strategic investments to support the worldwide adoption of CDMA- and OFDMA-based technologies and services. QUALCOMM Incorporated primarily operates in China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and the United States. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in San Diego, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Lauren Pollock]
Qualcomm Inc.'s(QCOM) fiscal fourth-quarter profit rose 18% as the company recorded higher revenue. But shares fell 4.1% to $66.90 premarket as the company’s current quarter forecast fell short of Wall Street’s expectations.
- [By Anders Bylund]
In the end, Apple needs to look at what archrival Google (NASDAQ: GOOG ) is doing with hardware partners Qualcomm� (NASDAQ: QCOM ) and Sony (NYSE: SNE ) by its side -- and then do it better. Executing on this simple plan (or not) will make all the difference for Apple next year.
- [By Rick Aristotle Munarriz]
John MacDougall, AFP/Getty ImagesSamsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch. From a widely dissed $7.2 billion buyout to a record month for automakers, here's a rundown of the week's best and worst moves in the business world. Apple (AAPL) -- Winner It's time to get excited about Apple again. The consumer tech giant confirmed that it will be hosting a media event on Tuesday. There's plenty of speculation on what the iEverything company will be unveiling. It's widely believed that Apple will not only unveil the updated iPhone 5S, but also a cheaper iPhone 5C that it can market to prepaid carriers in this country and the vast majority of wireless companies overseas that don't subsidize the cost of iPhones. Apple's market share in smartphones has fallen from 17 percent to 13 percent over the past year according to industry watcher IDC. It needs a hit next week. It also wouldn't hurt if the Cupertino bellwether surprised the market with a few unexpected products and features. Microsoft (MSFT) -- Loser The software giant's move to buy Nokia's (NOK) handset business in a deal valued at roughly $7.2 billion was good news for Nokia's beleaguered shareholders, but Microsoft investors weren't impressed. Nokia's Lumia has been the best ambassador for Microsoft's Windows Phone mobile operating system. But acquiring the Finnish company's devices and services business may prove problematic. There weren't too many companies backing Microsoft's fledgling platform, but buying Nokia will scare away HTC, Samsung, and others that have been showing Windows Phone some support in the past. The success of Windows as a mobile platform now rests entirely on Nokia's shoulders. Microsoft's making a pretty big bet here. Detroit -- Winner The City of Detroit became a punch line again when it filed for bankruptcy this summer, but let's give it up for the resilient nature of the American auto industry. Automakers reported their sales for the month of August this week, and all of the major playe
Hot High Dividend Companies To Own For 2014: Lionbridge Technologies Inc.(LIOX)
Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. provides language, development, and testing services. Its Global Language and Content segment provides product localization services, such as creating foreign language versions of its clients? products and software applications, including the user interface, online help systems, and documentation; and content translation services, such as translating and maintaining clients? Web-based content, eLearning courseware and training materials, technical support, and sales and marketing information. It also offers technical authoring, eLearning courseware development, and production and integration of content; and global language and content services delivery. The company?s Global Development and Testing segment develops and maintains on-premise, SaaS, and smart phone and tablet applications, as well as provides Web production services. This segment also offers various testing services under the VeriTest brand, including managed test teams, test proc ess design, test automation, functional testing, performance testing, globalization testing, and product certification. In addition, it provides specialized search relevance, online content editorial, keyword optimization, and related services. Its Interpretation segment offers interpretation services for government business and healthcare organizations that require experienced linguists to facilitate communication. It provides interpretation communication services, such as onsite interpretation, over-the-phone interpretation and interpreter testing, training, and assessment services in approximately 360 languages and dialects. The company serves the technology, mobile and telecommunications, Internet and media, life sciences, government, manufacturing, automotive, retail, and aerospace sectors in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Lionbridge Technologies (Nasdaq: LIOX ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below. - [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Lionbridge Technologies (Nasdaq: LIOX ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
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