Stocks Added to Collection of Stock Analyses - January 2016 (Week 4)

For those who are not yet familiar with our extensive collection of individual dividend stocks. The entire collection is currently comprised of 1,057 stock analyses (and still growing). The collection essentially provides links to various stock analyses that we found throughout the dividend blog community since 2013. Last year we added a total of 445 stock analyses to the collection. If you would like to view archives from previous years, please follow the respective links provided at the end of this post. 

2016
Our currently readers already know that we recently began providing weekly updates. We started providing weekly updates back in November of 2015 and we are committed to continuing with the weekly updates throughout 2016. We hope the weekly updates not only provides more value to our readers but also helps ensure that we continue to keep our collection up to date.  Our 2016 Collection is now comprised of 61 stock analyses to date. At this pace, we should reach 720 and thus will shatter our total of 445 from last year!!     

January 2016 - Week 4:

Below is a list of newly added stocks analyses for the 4th week of January: 

1. 3M Company (MMM)
• by Sure Dividend
2. AT&T Corp (T)
• by Sure Dividend
3. Cincinnati Financial (CINF)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
4. Cintas Corp (CTAS)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
5. Coca Cola Co (KO)
• by Sure Dividends
6. CVS Health Corp (CVS)
• by Jason Fieber
7. Hormel Foods (HRL)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
8. Internal Business Machine (IBM)
• by Dividends Growth Stocks
9. Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
• by Sure Dividend
10. McCormick & Co (MKC)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
11. Metro Inc (TSE:MRU)
• by Dividend Beginner
12. Nordson Corp (NDSN)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
13. Nucor Corp (NUE)
• by Dividend Sleuth 
14. PPG Industries (PPG)
• by Dividend Value Builder
15. Southern Co (SO)
• by Dividend Growth Stocks
16. Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)
• by Sure Dividend
17. W.W. Grainger (GWW)
• by Dividend Value Builder

Links provided directly in this post!

Please feel free to leave me a message if you prepared a stock analysis that I did not include in my post.  I would be more than happy to add your stock analysis to both this post and our collection of stock analyses.  Please make sure to confirm that it is a dividend paying stock and that it is a individual stock analysis.

  

My goal is to make this collection become the centralized source where one begins their research on a particular dividend stock company or at the very least, a source to confirm if a company stock is worth buying. Whether your a beginner or a veteran, I want this list to become an invaluable reference tool for you all. Best part, unlike other subscription based sites, I plan to keep this completely free for everyone to enjoy and benefit from.

Feel free to share with all of your friends and family! 

Click on Link Below

2016 - Collection of Stock Analyses

(Archived 2015, 2014, 2013)

Also don't forget to check out our:

Collection of Recent Buys

A Frugal Family's Journey - We Just Joined the 200K Club!!

A BIG "Thank You" to everyone that has supported, and continues to support and visit our blog...whether you have been with us from the beginning or you've just recently joined the journey, we would like to thank each and every one of you for your support.  

We started blogging about our frugal family's journey approximately 22 months ago on March 15, 2014. Our blogging journey honestly started out as a hobby and simply a way to keep on track of our progress. Flash forward almost 2 years later, I am thrilled to announce that because of each and every one of our readers, we just reached yet another milestone today. We are now proud members of the 200K club!  And although it took approximately 15 months to reach our first milestone of 100,000 page visits to our blog, the second 100,000 page visits took us less than half the time.  Well, 6 months and 28 days to be exact!!

Since I am somewhat of a stats nerd, below are some additional stats behind our 200,000 visits.

Top Referring Sites

BIG thanks to google.com and twitter, but we also want to recognize and give special thanks to Captain Dividend, Passive Income Pursuit, My Dividend Pipeline and Rockstar Finance for the additional traffic from your respective blogs. Lastly, although not present on the list above, I would like to also thank two other fellow bloggers and friends, Roadmap2Retire and I Want to Retire Soon, for your continue support and mention of our Collection of Recent Buys and Collection of Stock Analyses.  

Also, thanks to all that have tweeted or re-tweeted our posts.  Our additional presence and our followers on Twitter has truly helped us continue to grow. In case you would like to follow us on Twitter, we can be found under: @FrugalFamilyof4. 

Most Popular Page Visits

Our top three most popular page visits are: 1) 2015 - Collection of Recent Buys 2) Dividend Stocks Portfolio 3) 2015 - Collection of Stock Analyses. Our two collections and family's dividend stocks portfolio were the difference makers in 2015, let's continue the tradition and make them winners once again in 2016!!

Most Popular Posts

Our top three most popular posts are: 1) P2P Account (update) - August 2014 2) Net Worth (update) - 2nd Quarter 2014 3) Collection of Recent Buys (November 2015 Summary). The top two post remained unchanged as they were the top two from our 100K Club post, however, the third most popular post came this past November from our Collection of Recent Buys Summary.  These post received the pageviews they did because of you (our readers and fellow bloggers).  Thank you for reading and/or sharing our post with others.  We truly appreciate each and every one of you for the support!

Top Pageviews By Countries

We are tremendously grateful that our blog has seemed to have a worldwide presence as evident by the chart above.  However, the top pageviews to our blog came from the following top three countries: 1) United States 2) Canada 3) Germany.  And although Russia and Finland appears to be gaining ground on the 3rd spot, these top three have remained unchanged from our 100K Club post.

AGAIN...THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR HELPING US 

REACH YET ANOTHER HUGE MILESTONE!!

RECENT BUY - INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO (NYSE: IP)

WE RECENTLY PURCHASED THE FOLLOWING:

INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO (IP)

Purchased 10 shares of UNP on 1/25/2016 at $33.00
Total Spent: $333.00; added $12.30 in forward dividends.

Another winter deal in the books! International Paper Co (IP) set a new 52-week low during the mid-day session. In fact, IP dipped as low as $32.50 during the afternoon session. Although we didn't pick up shares at the lowest point of the day, we did manage to pick up a few shares close to the bottom at $33.00. 

We have been watching IP paper for awhile and saw the dip as an opportunity to add another great dividend paying company our family's dividend stocks portfolio. 

Although we understand the price concerns, we believe that International Paper Co (IP) management has laid down the necessary foundations for the company to have a successful 2016 and beyond. We believe the high 4.7% yield provides a reasonable entry point. We have no problems sitting back and collecting the juicy 4.7% yield as we wait for a turnaround.

Below are a few pros and cons we compiled from a few recent articles found:

Pros:

• IP is a large cap company with a capitalization of $13.5Bil.
• Nearest competitor Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) has a much smaller capitalization of $5.6Bil.
• IP is the world's leading producer of containerboards used to make corrugated brown boxes for shipping goods.  With E-commerce expected to grow steadily, sales in this category should continue to see steady growth.
• 3rd-quarter earnings of .97 cents for 2015 beat estimates of .92 cents.
• IP has a dividend yield of 4.7% and has been increased for the past 5 yrs.
• Next Ex-dividend is 2/11/2016, which means we will get our first dividend payment on March 15th.
• IP has a nice cash pile at $1.97Bil which allows it to continue to pay its high dividend and still have cash left over for stock buyouts and company investment.
• IP has a 3-year CAGR of 13%.
• S&P Capital IQ has a 4-star  (or buy) rating on IP with a price target of $52.00.

Cons:

• Sales down in Industrial packaging, printer paper, and consumer packaging.
• Concerns over pricing are running up and down the paper and packaging sector.
• Recent Downgrade from Citi.

Company Description

From Google Finance:

“International Paper Company is a paper and packaging company with primary markets and manufacturing operations in North America, Europe, Latin America, Russia, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The Company operates in three segments: Industrial Packaging, Printing Papers and Consumer Packaging. Industrial Packaging segment’s products include linerboard, medium, whitetop, recycled linerboard, recycled medium and saturating kraft. Printing Papers segment products include uncoated papers, which engage in the business of producing papers for use in copiers, desktop and laser printers and pulp, which manufactures printing, writing and specialty papers, tissue products and filtration products. Consumer Packaging’s coated paperboard business produces coated paperboard for packaging and commercial printing end uses. Its foodservice business produces cups, lids, food containers and plates. Its brands include Hammermill, Springhill, Accent, Ballet, Rey, Pol, Everest, Fortress and Carolina”

With today's purchase of International Paper Co (IP), the estimated forward dividends for our family's dividend stocks portfolio grew another $12.30, putting our yearly dividends at approximately $3,612/year (excluding our Edwards Jones account) and $3,970/year (including our Edward Jones account).  

Since we did not previously own IP in our family's dividend stocks portfolios (WF and EJ Accounts), today's purchase now brings our portfolio to a total of 52 different dividend paying stocks/ETFs and also 4 companies that either don't pay a dividend our has currently suspended their dividends.

Our family's dividend stocks portfolio may be found

by clicking on the link below:

DIVIDEND STOCKS PORTFOLIO

We also maintain an extensive list of stock analysis

that can be access through the link below:

COLLECTION OF STOCK ANALYSES

We also just started a list of Recent Buys by other bloggers

that can be access through the link below:

COLLECTION OF RECENT BUYS

HERE IS A QUICK FACT SHEET FOR THE STOCK I JUST PURCHASED:



International Paper Co (IP)

P/E: 15.29

Payout Ratio: 74.98%
Dividend Yield: 4.83%
Dividend Growth rate (5yr AVG): 39.87%
6 consecutive years of dividend increases
Last Ex-dividend date: 11/12/2015

Next Ex-dividend date: approx. 2/11/2016
Have paid a dividend since: 1946 (69 years)
Pays a dividend 4 times a year.
Market Cap: 13.5 Billion
52-week high: $57.90
52-week low: $34.03
Purchased Price: $33.00

What are your thoughts on of recent purchase?

What are you buying?

Stocks Added to Collection of Stock Analyses - January 2016 (Week 3)

For those who are not yet familiar with our extensive collection of individual dividend stocks. The entire collection is currently comprised of 1,040 stock analyses (and still growing). The collection essentially provides links to various stock analyses that we found throughout the dividend blog community since 2013. Last year we added a total of 445 stock analyses to the collection. If you would like to view archives from previous years, please follow the respective links provided at the end of this post. 

2016
Our currently readers already know that we recently began providing weekly updates. We started providing weekly updates back in November of 2015 and we are committed to continuing with the weekly updates throughout 2016. We hope the weekly updates not only provides more value to our readers but also helps ensure that we continue to keep our collection up to date.  Our 2016 Collection is now comprised of 44 stock analyses to date!     

January 2016 - Week 3:

Below is a list of newly added stocks analyses for the 3rd week of January: 

1. Abbvie Inc (ABBV)
• by Sure Dividend
2. Aflac Inc (AFL)
• by Dividend Growth Stocks
3. American Express (AXP)
• by The Conservative Income Investor
4. Baxalta Inc (BXLT)
• by Sure Dividend
5. Clorox Co (CLX)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
6. Cummins Inc (CMI)
• by Roadmap 2 Retire
7. Dover Corp (DOV)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
8. Kinder Morgan (KMI)
• by The Conservative Income Investor
9. Nucor Corp (NUE)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
10. Pepsico Inc (PEP)
• by Sure Dividends
11. Phillips 66 (PSX)
• by Dividend Growth Stocks
12. Stanley Black & Decker (SWK)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
13. Target Corp (TGT)
• by Dividend Value Builder
14. V.F Corp (VFC)
• by Simply Safe Dividends
15. V.F. Corp (VFC)
• by DGI Guy
16. W.W. Grainger (GWW)
• by Simply Safe Dividends

Links provided directly in this post!

Please feel free to leave me a message if you prepared a stock analysis that I did not include in my post.  I would be more than happy to add your stock analysis to both this post and our collection of stock analyses.  Please make sure to confirm that it is a dividend paying stock and that it is a individual stock analysis.

  

My goal is to make this collection become the centralized source where one begins their research on a particular dividend stock company or at the very least, a source to confirm if a company stock is worth buying. Whether your a beginner or a veteran, I want this list to become an invaluable reference tool for you all. Best part, unlike other subscription based sites, I plan to keep this completely free for everyone to enjoy and benefit from.

Feel free to share with all of your friends and family! 

Click on Link Below

2016 - Collection of Stock Analyses

(Archived 2015, 2014, 2013)

Also don't forget to check out our:

Collection of Recent Buys

RECENT BUY (NYSE: UNP)

WE RECENTLY PURCHASED THE FOLLOWING

Union Pacific Corp (UNP)

Purchased 5 shares of UNP on 1/22/2016 at $69.70
Total Spent: $348.50; added $11.00 in forward dividends.

Another winter deal in the books! Union Pacific Corp (UNP) opened the day by setting a new 52-week low today. We saw the dip as an opportunity to add more shares to one of our existing holdings. Although we missed the opportunity to pick up shares at the lowest point of the day when it dipped to $67.06, we did manage to pick up a few shares at $69.70 before it closed the day at $71.00. 

A 60 billion dollar dividend payer for since 1900 (over 115 years!) with a yield in the 3% range. We couldn't resist the opportunity to add to our current position. With today's purchase, we now own a total of 21 shares of UNP that will continue to provide our family with an estimated $46.20 in dividends a year. Given their long dividend history, we are confident that those dividends can be counted on for years to come.  And looking at the same history, it is likely that these dividends will continue to grow as well.

Company Description

From Google Finance:

“Union Pacific Corporation operates through its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad Company. The Company is a Class I railroad operating in the United States, which has 31,974 route miles and maintains coordinated schedules with other rail carriers to move freight. It links 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail, providing a supply chain link around the world. Its business mix includes agricultural products, automotive, chemicals, coal, industrial products and intermodal. The Company serves United States population centers, operates from West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and serves six Mexico gateways. The Company's freight traffic consists of bulk, manifest, and premium business”

With today's purchase of Union Pacific Corp (UNP), the estimated forward dividends for our family's dividend stocks portfolio grew another $11.00, putting our yearly dividends at approximately $3,600/year (excluding our Edwards Jones account) and $3,958/year (including our Edward Jones account).  

Since we already previously owned UNP, our family's dividend stocks portfolios (WF and EJ Accounts) remained the same with total of 51 different dividend paying stocks/ETFs and also 4 companies that either don't pay a dividend our has currently suspended their dividends.

Our family's dividend stocks portfolio may be found

by clicking on the link below:

DIVIDEND STOCKS PORTFOLIO

We also maintain an extensive list of stock analysis

that can be access through the link below:

COLLECTION OF STOCK ANALYSES

We also just started a list of Recent Buys by other bloggers

that can be access through the link below:

COLLECTION OF RECENT BUYS

HERE IS A QUICK FACT SHEET FOR THE STOCK I JUST PURCHASED:

Union Pacific Corp (UNP)

P/E: 12.93

Payout Ratio: 37.13%
Dividend Yield: 3.00%
Dividend Growth rate (5yr AVG): 14.99%
9 consecutive years of dividend increases
Last Ex-dividend date: 11/25/2015

Next Ex-dividend date: approx. 2/25/2015
Have paid a dividend since: 1900 (115 years)
Pays a dividend 4 times a year.
Market Cap: 60.6 Billion
52-week high: $124.52
52-week low: $67.06
Purchased Price: $69.70

What are your thoughts on of recent purchase?

What are you buying?