Questions About Stocks?

Send questions about stocks to research@goodfellowllc.com.  I’ll send you a message after I post the answer. Please don’t tell me about your tax situation, your holding period, your profit/loss, etc.  I cannot tell you what YOU should do with the stock.  I can only tell you what I WOULD DO with...

Nestle 2012 Financials

  This is a screenshot* of the Nestle financials from 2012.  The numbers are reported in millions.   Do you see in the center where it says “Net income  $11,375.00”?  The number is $11,375,000,000.  Also referred to as $11.4 billion.  The previous two years’ profits were $10.8 billion...

Questions from Investors: Is This a Good Time to Sell My Home?

Question: We are looking to sell our home in NY and move to Tennessee. Do you see 0bamacare affecting the housing market– i.e., employers cutting people to below 30 hours, etc., plus I’m concerned about interest rates come 2014 and how they will affect the housing market. We have some work to do...

Questions from Investors: “Can an investor make money in ‘high-priced’ stocks?”

Q:  “Can an investor make money in ‘high-priced’ stocks?” A:  In the investment world, the tidbits of advice that you get from relatives and co-workers are so consistently wrong that a person could probably make a lot of money doing the opposite of “what people say”....

Questions from Investors — Is the Market Overvalued?

Q:  Crista, how do you explain why the market is doing well when so many people believe economic collapse is possible any day? A:  First of all, individual investors really aren’t in the market. And markets only max out after individual investors are “all in”.  Just a few short months ago...

Questions from Investors — “Are growth & income mutual funds generally low risk?”

Q:  Are growth & income mutual funds generally low risk? A:  Growth & income mutual funds are generally made up of DOW-type stocks (big companies with dividends), OR they are stock/bond/money market combination funds.  The dividends, bonds, and money market funds serve to lower the volatility of the...