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DIVIDENDS aren't dinosaurs. True, many investors think so. And so do many companies. They reason that dividends are subject to double taxation -- that is, corporations are taxed on their [...]

ONCE a year, I devote a column to stock ideas stolen from other money managers. Last year I brought you some of the favorite stocks of Scott Black, David Dreman, [...]

AMERICA is experiencing a wave of patriotic fervor in response to terrorist attacks. But if your portfolio is too All-American, I would advise making some changes. In normal times, I [...]

A year ago I was wiping egg off my face regarding some stocks I had recommended based on their low price-to-cash-flow ratio. My August 1999 crop of cash-flow picks had [...]

Can anyone predict the economy? I'm skeptical. But Douglas Gasher did a pretty-good job of it for the past year and he's the winner of this column's second annual Derby [...]

IT'S time for a visit with an old friend - the Sane Portfolio. I designed the Sane Portfolio in August 1999 for "slightly conservative investors." The original 12 stocks have [...]

WHAT are the most profitable companies in the U.S? They're the ones in the "Fabulous Fifteen." I published a Fabulous Fifteen list in August 1998 and another in August 2000. [...]

A year ago, I wrote a column called "Five Stocks That Would Make Benjamin Graham Choke." Graham, who died at 82 in 1976, is considered the father of value investing. [...]

I'VE created a handful of fanciful stock portfolios in this column in the last four years. They don't have real money in them, but I do use them to generate [...]

It's popular to decry the surfeit of mutual funds. Defining your terms right, there are more funds than there are stocks to invest in - a near absurdity. This situation [...]

When company insiders are buying a stock, it's worth a look. And when a stock is cheap, it's worth a look. When both are true, it's worth a couple of [...]

WITH the end of the second quarter nearing, it's a good time to look for bargains among stocks that have been banged up since March. I try to compile a [...]

WHEN John Templeton, one of the legendary investors of the second half of the 20th century, was a young man, he pulled off a wild stunt. Just after World War [...]

In 1969, a fellow named Ira Cobleigh published a book titled "Happiness Is a Stock That Doubles in a Year." If his title holds true, at least some investors are [...]

THE first quarter just ended so, like most money managers, I am busy writing quarterly reports to clients. In an idle moment, I was daydreaming that the Standard & Poor's [...]

A friend of mine once contracted encephalitis, sometimes known as brain fever. The disease gave him a devil of a time. But when his ordeal was over he had lost [...]

ONE way to find bargain-priced stocks is your eye on the list of shares making new 52-week lows. Each year in the first week of March, I recommend half a [...]

TANGERINE. It's a delicious fruit, of course. But in the lexicon of the, stock market, the word has another connotation. It refers to a company whose subsidiaries or divisions are [...]

BRETT Gallagher of Bank Julius Baer took first prize in this column's 2000 Stock-Picking Contest with a 175 percent gain in R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. For most of the [...]

IT'S the time of year when otherwise sane men and women succumb to the prediction virus. In that spirit, here are my 10 favorite stocks for the new year. My [...]

MICROSOFT Corp. rocked the stock market when it announced that per-share earnings for the December quarter will be 2 or 3 cents shy of expectations. The same day, Chase Manhattan [...]

A year ago, this column launched the Bunny Portfolio, named after the rabbit in the battery commercial that keeps going and going after people expect it to poop out. The [...]

WITH my own money and with that of clients, I tend to invest like Scrooge McDuck. The stocks I buy are usually, in a word, cheap. Once in a while, [...]

EARLIER this month, I recommended 10 small and mid-sized stocks that were down sharply this year and that I think have good potential for a January rebound. But small stocks [...]

Twice a year, I look back at how my past advice has fared. Today's exercise in pride and embarrassment covers predictions and recommendations made in the second half of 1999. [...]

THERE are two types or Stocks that traditionally rally in January: small stocks and stocks that got murdered in the previous year. Some call it the January bounce; others call [...]

COMPUTER, computer on the wall, which is the fairest stock of all? Like most money managers, I crank up my computer in various ways and ask it to spit out [...]

With so much turmoil in the Middle East, should any U.S. investor in their right mind consider buying Israeli stocks now? The shares are plunging. For people with the nerve [...]

TIME and again, I've championed the idea that investors do better with cheap, unpopular stocks than with expensive and popular ones. I've made that point so often and with so [...]

THE stock market, as defined by either the Standard & Poor's 500 Index or the Dow Jones Industrial Average, has fallen for five straight weeks. Whether the decline will continue, [...]

When Eastman Kodak Co. announced its third-quarter profit would miss forecasts, its stock took a monstrous hit. In one day it plunged 25 percent, to $44.50 a share from $59, [...]

MOST of my columns are about small and medium-size stocks because I think those stocks are more likely than their bigger brethren to be undiscovered and underpriced. Yet, some investors [...]

JEFFREY Newman, an executive with a mortgage security administration firm in Phoenix, won this column's second annual Short Sellers Don't Have Horns contest as his pick, eToys Inc., plunged 91 [...]

Is your portfolio too All-American? It probably is, if you are like most U.S. investors. I have been trying to include a fair sprinkling of non-U.S. stocks among my clients' [...]

Over the years, I've made a lot of good stock picks in this column. But some stocks I recommended a year ago aren't among them. At the end of August [...]

TRADITIONALLY, stock market lore told us to expect a "January effect." Two types of stocks traditionally did very well in January -- small stocks and stocks that did poorly the [...]

IF the Dow Jones Industrial Average continues its current decline, we may be inaugurating John Kerry as president. That's a prediction based on data developed by James Stack, a market [...]

MY father, a stock-market investor for seven decades, turned 96 years old yesterday. Dad has been a big influence on me, both as a person and as an investor. When [...]

THE January reverse is happening again. When a new year begins, stocks that did well the year before often tumble, while stocks that did poorly the previous year often revive. [...]

HERE'S a list of the priciest stocks in the market. I call it the Sky-High Six. Quite simply, the ranking features the six stocks that sell for the highest multiple [...]

Discusses stock market issues in the United States. Non-materialization of the `January effect' where small stocks and stocks that did poorly the year before rebound; Dividends as a barometer of corporate sincerity as regards a company's sustainable growth rate.