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The Hidden Dividend Treasure Inside Fly High Investing
Imagine discovering that your dividend portfolio contains a treasure chest that you didn’t even know was there. You can’t see it by looking at the dividend yield, and you won’t find it by simply comparing a company’s earnings with its dividend. In fact, the companies themselves don’t always make it easy to find. But buried…
Read MoreWho Really Moves the Stock Market and Why It Matters
If you asked most investors who moves the stock market, they’d probably say individual investors, mutual funds, pension funds, and large investment firms buying and selling stocks based on what they believe companies are worth. That answer would have been largely correct a few decades ago. Today, it isn’t. The stock market has quietly undergone…
Read MoreFly High Investing vs. Wall Street
People like to tell themselves they invest in the stock market because they’re being rational. Some believe they’re doing the work, researching companies, comparing financials, listening to analysts, and convincing themselves they’re making informed decisions. Others skip the research entirely and instead research financial advisors, portfolio managers, or large investment firms, ultimately turning their life…
Read MoreThe Dividend Feedback Loop: When Falling Prices Create Explosive Income Growth
Most investors panic when stock prices fall. They see red on the screen, assume something is broken, and rush to sell before things “get worse.” But dividend investors who understand the relationship between stock prices and dividend payouts know something very different: sometimes a falling stock price isn’t a catastrophe at all. Sometimes it’s the…
Read MoreLower Prices, Higher Yields
The markets for income oriented stocks have been unsettled lately, and some of the income stocks we follow have seen price declines. This can look discouraging at first glance, but in reality it can mean that there are quality companies with proven dividend records that are suddenly trading at better prices. When you can buy…
Read MoreThink Like a Business Owner – Market Volatility Shouldn’t Shake Dividend Investors
The last two weeks the stock market has been throwing investors a curveball. Headlines scream volatility, red numbers flash across screens, and fear spreads. But as dividend investors, we must remind ourselves: We’re not just buying tickers on a screen. We’re investing in businesses. If you owned a franchise, say a McDonald’s or a Dunkin’,…
Read MoreThe Importance of Portfolio Rotation for Income-Focused Investors
At Fly High Investing, our primary focus is on building and maintaining portfolios that generate consistent and reliable income. For investors prioritizing income over capital appreciation, portfolio rotation is a crucial strategy that ensures earnings remain robust and dividends sustainable over time. Portfolio rotation involves reassessing and reallocating holdings within a portfolio to better…
Read MoreStock dips from a public share offering
When a company announces a public offering of common stock such as RITHM Capital has this week, it typically results in a temporary dip in its stock price for several reasons. First, the increase in the number of available shares leads to dilution, where each shareholder’s percentage ownership in the company decreases, thus reducing the…
Read MoreBeyond P/E ratios: How to uncover dividend opportunities
At Fly High Investing, we focus on a comprehensive view of earnings ratios to evaluate the sustainability and potential of dividend-paying stocks. You might be interested to find that we also use the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio as a metric to determine whether a stock might be over or undersold, however it is not the core…
Read MoreAvoid the Dividend capture strategy…
It isn’t as easy as it sounds. If you are not familiar how it works, you buy a stock right before the ex-dividend date to capture the dividend, then sell it right after. Sounds like a quick win, right? But here’s the kicker: stock prices tend to drop by the dividend amount on the ex-dividend…
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