Schlumberger Just Sent A Buy Signal

Posted on June 29, 2012

By Robert Hauver

Buy Signal- Schlumberger dipped below the oversold 20 line on its Stochastic chart, but just crossed back above the line this week, which is seen by chartists as a buy signal:

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Schlumberger, (SLB), is the world’s largest oilfield services provider, whose $83 billion market cap dwarfs those of its competitors, such as Halliburton and Baker Hughes. Like most Basic Materials/Energy-related stocks, SLB has been getting hammered this year, due to a number of factors – slowing Chinese and US growth, Eurozone problems, and declining oil prices. However, the oil price decline is a 2-edged sword, because some of that decline is due to the new shale oil discoveries that are being exploited via fracking in the US, which is Schlumberger’s biggest and most lucrative market:

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Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only and isn’t intended as investment advice.

VF Corp, A Dividend Stock WIth A 20% Option Yield

Posted on June 22, 2012

By Robert Hauver

VF Corp., (VFC), has been one of the best stocks to buy this year for price gains, having outperformed the market thus far in 2012, and is only 9.06% off of its 52-week highs.VFC is among the top 20 Consumer Goods dividend stocks for 2012 performance.

VFC is a $9 billion apparel and footwear powerhouse, with a very diverse, international portfolio of brands and products, including such well known brands as Lee, Nautica, Wrangler, North Face, and Timberland.

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With its 2.06% dividend yield, VFC isn’t really part of the high dividend stocks universe, but you can vastly improve upon its dividends by selling covered calls or cash secured puts.

Here’s a covered call trade for VFC, that’s listed in our Covered Call Table, along with over 30 other trades with high options yields. Click here to read more…

Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only and isn’t intended as investment advice.

2 Dividend Stocks With 25% Covered Call Yields

Posted on June 15, 2012

By Robert Hauver

Looking for dividend stocks with high options yields? With the market moving more towards the upside, call option prices have started to rise accordingly. Here are 2 of the over 30 dividend paying stocks listed in our Covered Calls Table, which each have a combined option and dividend yield of 25% or more:

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Dividends: TGH, which is listed in the Industrials section of High Dividend Stocks By Sector Tables, increased its quarterly dividends to $.40, from $.37 in 2012. This was the 9th consecutive dividend increase for TGH. MGA increased its quarterly dividends to $.28, from $.25, in the first quarter of 2012.

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BHP Billiton – An Undervalued Basic Materials Dividend Stock

Posted on June 8, 2012

By Robert Hauver

Looking for undervalued dividend paying stocks? Like many Basic Materials stocks, BHP Billiton PLC, (BBL), has been under under pressure in 2012, due to slowing growth and tightening financial policy in China. However, the Chinese government has begun loosening its policies, in order to keep growth moving near their targeted 7.5% GDP rate, which should help Basic Materials stocks such as BBL regain some of their luster.

Undervalued Growth: BBL, whose fiscal year ends 6/30/12, looks undervalued on a PEG basis for 2012 and 2013:

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Cummins – An Oversold And Undervalued Dividend Stock

Posted on June 1, 2012

By Robert Hauver

The market has fallen out of love with stalwart Industrial dividend stock Cummins, (CMI), sending its shares down over 16% in May. Lowered guidance from fellow equipment maker Joy Global, (JOY), has also helped to depress CMI’s shares this week. JOY cut its guidance approx. 3.4 to 4.5%, down to a $7.15 to $7.45 range, and trimmed its revenue guidance by approx. 1.8%, based on weaker mining equipment demand from US coal miners.

Here’s the anomaly and the opportunity: JOY’s coal mining equipment business is slowing in the US because of the ongoing natural gas boom, which is causing utility and other power users to switch from more expensive, dirtier coal, to cheaper, cleaner natural gas. BUT, as the biggest natural gas and hybrid bus engine manufacturer in the US market, Cummins will gain from this shift from coal to natural gas, as more fleet owners switch to these natural gas and hybrid engines.

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Disclaimer: This article is written for informational purposes only and isn’t intended as investment advice.