Long Term Investing

What is going on with the market this week? To me is smells like a great buying opportunity for us long term buy and hold investors. You can now get in cheaply by buying Wendys(WEN), Kraft Foods(KFT), McDonalds(MCD), and a lot of the big name conservative dividend paying stocks. May have to ride through more short term bumps but in the long term you will do fine. My opinion is buy these companies and take your Dividend checks to the bank every 3 months! Ignore the crazy variance of the market and buy safe long term holding type of companies. Happy Investing. Tony

Wendys(WEN)

Don't like to give short term advice but WEN is about to shoot up. As the economy recovers stronger I expect Wendys to benefit from it big time. Buy now while it's on sale. Happy Investing. Tony

MCD Revisited

This post is an update to my choose to buy McDonald’s(MCD) stock. I have loved this one for years, what is there not to love? They are the dominate player in their category, fast food. Well run and established company with over 40 years in their sector. They have a long history of paying and raising their Dividend(Currently around 3.2%) year after year. The company is perfect for an automatic stock reinvestment program such as ING’s Sharebuilder account. I use them to make an even dollar amount purchase of MCD on the first Tuesday of every month. It’s a low cost way to pick up a few shares a month and all dividends purchase more shares, commission free I may add. Do your own research but IMHO MCD is the place to park long term buy and hold money for sure. Happy Investing. Tony

Stock Update

It looks like many of the Stocks I have talked about in this BLOG are doing really well now. It is true that a rising tide lifts all boats but the companies I have Blogged about have done so with less risk. Also all of them have a nice attractive yield to carry you ove while you wait for them to rise. Look for some new ideas from me this week. I will do some research and than post about what I come up with. Happy investing and Happy Easter. Tony

Another Wendys Update

This week they announced another Share Buy Back program. The shares have been moving up on hig volume too. All good signs for this company. It's not too late to pick up these shares at these super low prices. I will pick some more up myself this week. Happy Investing. Tony

Wendys Update

Looks like my last post about Wendys/Arbys Group(WEN) was very timely. Even though I tend to look at the long term picture it’s always nice to get a nice short term gain. WEN is up around 8% since my last post about it. In today’s investing times I am happy to make that over a year so making it in a month is really sweet. I haven’t been getting many comments about my posts on this BLOG, where is the love? Getting comments is really important being it gives me an idea of what people expect to read about in this BLOG. Happy investing. Tony

Stock Turn Around Play

This post is about it being good to go against the herd sometimes when investing. I have a common sense out of favor conservative stock to consider to buy right now. I am talking about Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, symbol WEN. This company, the third largest, publically traded fast food company, lately has come on hard times. The stock has taken a huge haircut and is trading close to its 52 week low. In other words everyone has been selling so it’s now on sale big time. As the recession took hold they were very slow to introduce lower priced value items to their menu and as a result their earnings took a big hit. They are introducing breakfast items at Wendy’s and a value menu at Arby’s this year. These 2 things should help turn around their growth prospects. Also as the economy turns around people will start to eat out more and this company should benefit from this improvement. Their food is on the higher end of the fast food spectrum. It’s quality is almost as high as the casual dining sector they compete with. I believe as the economy turns people will trade up to their stores quicker than going out to eat at the lower end restaurants. They do have a small dividend of around 1.25%, so this helps also while you wait for the turn around. While this stock is more risky than many other I have posted about believe it’s a good long term buy. Tony