Stock Market is the bottom in?

[jsasker007]

Was looking at a chart for the "dividend kings" that only lists stocks that have consistently paid out dividends to their share holders for 50 years or more. Dividends are a nice plus but on that list I didn't really see any stocks listed where the stock price itself has done anything special. I always try to find stocks that have a decent dividend if possible. Dividend stocks don't have the growth that non-dividends stocks have but the dividend can make up part of the difference. NVDA has a tiny dividend and TSLA has none at all but they are growing at a record pace. My dividend stocks are set up for D.R.I.P. and the MAG7 stocks I watch daily and trade when I'm up enough.

 

[rocksnstumps]

Qualified dividends outside of tax deferred accounts are like crack to some in the retirement crowd. They are not really as concerned about growth as preservation of assets and QDs for a married couple are federal tax free up to $94,000 income level. That's for folks without pensions and not pulling social security yet. The pension crowd is probably less focused on dividends for their cash flow needs

 

[Telemark]

Was looking at a chart for the "dividend kings" that only lists stocks that have consistently paid out dividends to their share holders for 50 years or more. Dividends are a nice plus but on that list I didn't really see any stocks listed where the stock price itself has done anything special. I always try to find stocks that have a decent dividend if possible. Dividend stocks don't have the growth that non-dividends stocks have but the dividend can make up part of the difference. NVDA has a tiny dividend and TSLA has none at all but they are growing at a record pace. My dividend stocks are set up for D.R.I.P. and the MAG7 stocks I watch daily and trade when I'm up enough.

Dividend investing is a completely different strategy from growth investing. Generally companies don't pay a dividend until they are done growing. A healthy growth company will use its cash to grow the business until it runs out of ideas or has saturated the market.

Dividend stocks are my retirement plan. Once I grow my account big enough to where I can live off 4%, I'll move everything to dividend stocks and live off the cash dividend payments.

Currently, I don't look for a dividend at all. I'd rather go for companies that are as early in their growth phase as possible.

 

[SD51555]

@hesseu , nobody knows. We also bailed out foreign countries with US dollars. None of that is ever reported because the private central bank is above the law.

@jsasker007 spending is the weapon. Who gets the money is an afterthought to those printing it.

 

[Telemark]

Looks like there's gonna be a little drama at the open today. The bigs are having a bad pre-market session. Keep your eyes peeled.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/26/stock-market-news-for-jan-26-2025.html

I had a chance to look into the Deepseek issue, and it seems my assessment was correct. It's nothing new. It's all open source. And it's not actually Chinese. Basically, all the Chinese did was get a bunch of online nerds around the world to create a bunch of free IP that the American companies can now take and use on their models to increase computing power. Additionally, the so-called "breakthroughs" were already mentioned by Jensen Huang weeks before Deepseek was released.

I will probably be buying a lot over the next several days. I will still need to watch the charts and follow the news, but this seems like exactly the kind of buying opportunity I've been hoping for. If my assessment of Deepseek is correct, then when this all shakes out, investor confidence should be restored relatively soon.

 

[bwoods11]

If I can live off the dividends, I will definitely do that . I actually hate selling stocks/assets. It’s like a pet peeve .

Maybe it’s the Rich Dad Poor Dad philosophy?