Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘ Jim Nelson ’

DRIPs: A Great Income Investing Strategy

Nov 18th, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Stock Market Investing

There is a way to join a company’s long-term employee benefit program without lifting a finger, says Jim Nelson. Some firms offer Dividend Retirement Plans (DRIPs), which allow you to both receive regular dividend checks and reinvest earnings in discounted stock. And as long as dividend payments keep coming, there is no need to worry about a volatile share price.



2 ‘Unbelievably High’ Dividend Stock Plays

Oct 31st, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Featured

Choppy markets have sent dividend yields to “unbelievably high” levels, says Jim Nelson. This makes today a great time to start income investing. Jim says Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS:A/RDS.B) and BP (NYSE:BP) are two cash-rich companies with consistent dividend payments and “absurdly” high yields right now.



1,000% Surge in Molybdenum Prices Is Just the Beginning

Sep 19th, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Gold Market

Little-known metal molybdenum is essential to a host of fast-growing industries from energy to construction. Companies can’t open mines fast enough. Demand has sent the price soaring 1,000% in the last five years. Jim Nelson says this is still just the beginning for the metal. He expects another surge in the next 12 months.



Buy Small-Cap VISN to Profit from Chinese Ad Revolution

Sep 18th, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Featured, Financial News

China is renovating, expanding or introducing public transport systems in nearly all of its major urban centers. This is clearing the way for a revolution in advertising.

Penny Sleuth’s Jim Nelson says small cap VisionChina Media (NASDAQ:VISN) is perfectly poised to profit in this fast-growing sector. The company installs digital TVs and sells advertising time on them.

VISN has an established client base, its revenues are soaring, and it has no debt. Best of all: Its stock has been vastly oversold in a recent correction.



Moly’s Energy Chain

Sep 13th, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Oil Investment & Alternative Energy

While both presidential candidates are trying to outdo each other by implementing the words geothermal, solar, and wind into every stump speech, oil’s hay day is by no means over.



Jim Nelson Says the Smaller the Company the Larger the Return

Sep 4th, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Stock Market Investing

It can be easy to forget that some of the world’s biggest companies started out as penny stocks. Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) to name a few. Penny Sleuth’s Jim Nelson says penny stocks may carry more risk than blue-chips, but the success stories show the rewards can be worth the extra risk.



How to Turn $5,000 into $151,025.76 in Just 5 Years

Aug 26th, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Stock Market Investing

Penny stock expert Jim Nelson says that, in addition to offering the largest potential gains of any type of stock, penny stocks also offer investors dividend payments just like blue chip stocks. Here Jim explains how you can turn $5,000 into $151,025.76 in five years using penny stock dividends



Silver Is the Metal to Own Even If Gold Hits $2,000

Aug 15th, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Gold Market

Jim Nelson in Penny Sleuth has come across a new way to look at the relationship between gold and silver. It proves why silver is the precious metal to own even if gold jumps to $2,000 an ounce. Jim says, “Many ’silverbugs’ out there use a common price ratio between silver and gold to predict silver’s future price.” Here’s why you shouldn’t only use that…



Great Bargains in Ignored Biotech

Aug 7th, 2008 | By Contrarian Profits | Category: Featured, Financial News

There has been a lot of strong recommendations around biotech lately on Contrarian Profits.

Phase 1 Investor editor Rob Fannon recently wrote that biotech was one of the few market sectors to show positive returns as  many other stocks were getting hammered. He sees great values in the sector.

There’s a good reason for this strength. A struggling economy won’t hurt biotech and medical as much as, say, an automaker, retailer, or restaurant chain… And biotech is one of the few industries showing solid sales growth.



Why the Smart Money Is in Biotech Stocks

Aug 7th, 2008 | By Jim Nelson | Category: Featured, Financial News

As investors plowed into financial and housing stocks in the last few years, they forgot about the pharmaceutical industry, says Jim Nelson in Penny Sleuth.

But now that the party is over, biotech stocks are coming back in a big way. According to mutual-fund research firm Lipper, two biotech funds were amongst the top five best-performing vehicles in July - a dramatic reversal from June when commodities funds were leading the charge.

Big Pharma is buying up promising biotech companies in an effort to boost profit margins. This creates great opportunities for investors, and it’ only just the beginning…