The possible exception to the general rule of mutual
vs. stock companies is MetLife who has reputedly created formidable whole life product suitable for infinite banking.
One thing to note about our criteria is that we've omitted certain factors such as direct recognition vs non-direct recognition or «mutual
vs. stock companies» because these factors are most relevant when searching for the best dividend paying whole life companies.
So, your choice of mutual life insurance company
vs. a stock company is perhaps more like splitting hairs, except, why would you opt to go with a stock company when you can go a with a mutual one?
So, your choice of mutual life insurance company
vs. a stock company is perhaps more like splitting hairs, except, why would you opt to go with a stock company when you can go a with a mutual one?
Not exact matches
The
company's
stock has barely moved, inching up a cumulative 6.5 % over the past two years,
vs. 23 % for rival Colgate and 29 % for the S&P 500.
Since 2008 there have been $ 280 billion in net redemptions from
stock mutual funds,
vs. $ 645 billion in net sales of bond funds, according to the Investment
Company Institute.
Echelon is now focusing its growth on «smart» commercial & municipal LED lighting (although its fab-less chip business has apparently now stabilized after a long decline), and if the lighting business accelerates (and it could, due to recent sales force hires and new products), I think there's a chance it can hit a break - even annualized revenue run - rate of $ 40 million by Q4 - 2019 (pushed back from my earlier hoped - for timeline) at which point — assuming $ 14 million of remaining net cash (
vs. an estimated $ 18 million at the end of Q2 2018) and 4.7 million shares outstanding (vs 4.52 million today), an enterprise value of 1x revenue on this 53 % gross margin
company would put the
stock in the mid - $ 11s per share.
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK)'s third quarter earnings report resulted in the
stock notably selling off by 15 percent on Wednesday, which reinvigorated Wall Street's bull
vs. bear debate on the software
company.
A recent study by the Investment
Company Institute found that
stock index funds like ETFs have an average annual expense ratio of 0.09 %
vs. 0.82 % for the average actively managed fund.
Use of
stock funds,
vs. individual
stocks, is an easy and low - cost way to guard against catastrophic events that regularly impact individual
companies and avoids trying to pick out the relatively few winners in a market composed mostly of losers.
Investing authority Paul Merriman explains how to turn $ 3,000 into $ 50 million and talks to Joe and Big Al about value
vs. growth
companies, market timing, choosing the right mix of
stocks, bonds and other investments, and which
stocks don't beat even Treasuries in the long term.
When investing in
stocks, they tilt toward small cap (smaller
companies)
vs. large cap (larger
companies).
A
stock - held
company is simply public
company owned by the holders of its
stock vs. the policy holders.
Why would trading the same
stocks in U.S.
vs. Canadian dollars expose you to currency risk if the
companies assets are all overseas?
Last week, Jim Cramer did a TV segment on «broken
companies»
vs. «broken
stocks.»
Closed - end funds are perhaps the best compromise, but a good investment objective
vs. a good investment performance
vs. a good / great NAV discount is pretty hard to reconcile... Emerging market
companies listed in London (and New York) might offer the best individual
stock selection opportunities (Avangardco (AVGR: LN) is a good example).
Although the funds have similar holdings of large, mid, and small
company stocks, they track entirely different indices (the S&P / TSX Capped Composite Index
vs. the FTSE Canada All Cap Index), making them arguably different enough to avoid the superficial loss rules.
Other than the obvious difference between their underlying indices (MSCI
vs. FTSE), XEF invests in large, mid and small
company stocks, while VDU only covers the large and mid size
companies.
That «my yield» on our BMY investment is 7.5 %
vs. the current dividend yield of 2.5 % reflects 1) steady increases in the
company's dividend payout since 2004, and 2) the
stock price is much higher today than when we bought it (a
stock price rising at a faster rate than the dividend payment will reduce dividend yield).