The following slides are from the MoneyShow presentation, Leading Cannabis Stocks, presented on February 9, 2022:
Disclosure: Author owns IIPR.
Author: WSTNN
Stocks Going Ex Dividend in February 2022
The following is a short list of some of the many stocks going ex dividend during the next month.
Many traders and investors use the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the strategy of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend.
This technique generally works in bull markets and flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the strategy during bear markets. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date.
The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and some with yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the periodic dividend amount.
| Citigroup Inc. (C) | 2/4/2022 | 0.51 | 3.13% |
| Schlumberger N.V. (SLB) | 2/8/2022 | 0.125 | 1.28% |
| Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) | 2/10/2022 | 0.49 | 1.99% |
| Amgen Inc. (AMGN) | 2/14/2022 | 1.94 | 3.42% |
| Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) | 2/18/2022 | 1.06 | 2.47% |
| Applied Materials, Inc. (AMAT) | 2/22/2022 | 0.24 | 0.69% |
| Tyson Foods, Inc. (TSN) | 2/28/2022 | 0.46 | 2.02% |
The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found HERE . (If you have been to the page before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WSTNN.com HERE .
Dividend definitions:
Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.
Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.
Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.
Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.
Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.
Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written; affiliate links are on this page.
Top Rare Earth Metals Stocks
by Fred Fuld III
Recently, Sen. Mark Kelly (D, AZ) co-sponsored a bi-partisan bill called the Restoring Essential Energy and Security Holdings Onshore for Rare Earths Act of 2022, which calls for the development of a strategic reserve of rare earth metals by the year 2025, and bans the use of Chinese rare earth metals by the U.S. military by the following year.
What is a Rare Earth Metal?
So what is a rare earth metal? Rare earth metals, also called rare earth elements or REE, are heavy metals used in numerous industrial applications, many of which are critical.
Where are Rare Earth Metals Used?
Such uses include magnets, catalysts, batteries, glass, metallurgy, polishing, pigments, and ceramics, with the primary industry users being military equipment and renewable energy technology.
The 17 Rare Earth Elements
The following are considered to be the rare earth elements:
Lanthanum
Cerium
Praseodymium
Neodymium
Promethium
Samarium
Europium
Gadolinium
Terbium
Dysprosium
Holmium
Erbium
Thulium
Ytterbium
Lutetium
Scandium
Yttrium
What Countries Produce Rare Earth Metals?
According to Statista, China produces over 57% of the earths rare-earth elements, with the United States in second place at 15.6%. Myanmar (Burma) is third at 12.3%, followed by Australia and Madagascar.
The Top Rare Earth Elements Stocks
The leading rare earth elements company in the United States is MP Materials (MP) with a market capitalization of $7 billion. The company is in the business of rare earth mining and processing, and owns the mineral rights to the Mountain Pass Mine and surrounding areas in Nevada. It produces neodymium and praseodymium.
The company trades at 59 times trailing earnings. Revenues for the latest reported quarter rose by 36% over the previous quarter, and net income increased by over 57%.
The other big producer of rare earth metals is Lynas Rare Earths (LYSCF) (LYSDY). This Australian based company mines, extracts, and processes rare earth minerals in Australia and Malaysia.
The stock has a trailing price to earnings ratio of 55.5 and the company has a market cap of $6.7 billion. Revenues for the latest reported year jumped by 61% over the previous year. Earnings went from negative $19 million to a positive $157 million during the same time period.
There are actually over two dozen companies involved in rare earth metals, including mining, processing, selling, and recycling. To see the list, click HERE.
You also have one other option, and that is VanEck Vectors Rare Earth/Strategic Metals ETF (REMX). This ETF invests in a diversified portfolio of companies involved in the mining, refining and recycling of rare earth and strategic metals and minerals.
Hopefully, these stocks may provide a rare opportunity for your portfolio.
Disclosure: Author owns MP.
These are the 18 books that Warren Buffett thinks you should read to get smarter about investing and trading
Warren Buffett, head of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) (BRKB), actually came out with a list of books that he recommends on how to trade stocks and invest.
If you are interested in reading books about how to invest and trade, that are recommended by Warren Buffett, they can be found on the list below:
Business Adventures Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
Common Sense on Mutual Funds: Fully Updated 10th Anniversary Edition
Investing Between the Lines: How to Make Smarter Decisions By Decoding CEO Communications
Here are his recommended books about himself.
Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders
50 Years of Berkshire Hathaway Wall Print
This is actually a wall print poster.
Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist
Buffett’s Bites: The Essential Investor’s Guide to Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letters
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, Fifth Edition
A Few Lessons for Investors and Managers From Warren Buffett
Here are more books that Warren Buffett recommends about himself.
The Oracle & Omaha, How Warren Buffet and His Hometown Shaped Each Other
Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2013
Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha
Warren Buffett Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Greatest Investor
Enjoy your reading!!!
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How to Trade Agricultural Commodities without Trading Futures
by Fred Fuld III
Have you ever thought about trading or investing in an agricultural commodity, possibly as an inflation hedge, such as wheat, corn, soybeans, or even coffee?
But maybe you didn’t want to get into futures because of the risk or lack of understanding or both.
Well, there is another way to trade these food items, and that is through the agricultural commodities exchange traded funds.
Probably the safest way is through an ETF that has a diversified portfolio of agricultural products, such as the Invesco DB Agriculture Fund (DBA), which has an investment objective of investing in a portfolio of exchange-traded agricultural futures.
If you think the price of corn is going to take off, you could trade the Teucrium Corn Fund (CORN).
Or maybe you think the demand for sugar is going to increase, causing the sugar price to spike. You have a couple of alternatives, the iPath Series B Bloomberg Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN (SGG) and the Teucrium Sugar Fund (CANE).
If you like chocolate, there is the iPath Bloomberg Cocoa Subindex Total Return ETN (NIB).
The following is a list of the agricultural commodities ETFs.
| Commodity | Symbol | ETF Name | Total Assets* |
| Agriculture | DBA | Invesco DB Agriculture Fund | 1,018,170 |
| Agriculture | RJA | Elements Rogers International Commodity Index-Agriculture Total Return ETN | 153,758 |
| Corn | CORN | Teucrium Corn Fund | 120,848 |
| Coffee | JO | iPath Series B Bloomberg Coffee Subindex Total Return ETN | 94,895 |
| Wheat | WEAT | Teucrium Wheat Fund | 75,645 |
| Soybean | SOYB | Teucrium Soybean Fund | 44,971 |
| Sugar | SGG | iPath Series B Bloomberg Sugar Subindex Total Return ETN | 26,419 |
| Sugar | CANE | Teucrium Sugar Fund | 22,844 |
| Cocoa | NIB | iPath Bloomberg Cocoa Subindex Total Return ETN | 22,713 |
| Grains | JJG | iPath Series B Bloomberg Grains Subindex Total Return ETN | 21,563 |
| Cotton | BAL | iPath Series B Bloomberg Cotton Subindex Total Return ETN | 20,602 |
| Livestock | COW | iPath Series B Bloomberg Livestock Subindex Total Return ETN | 19,665 |
| Agriculture | TAGS | Teucrium Agricultural Fund | 14,180 |
| Agriculture | JJA | iPath Series B Bloomberg Agriculture Subindex Total Return ETN | 11,211 |
| * In thousands |
You will notice that some of these are ETNs (Exchange Traded Notes) as opposed to ETFs. ETNs are senior, unsecured debt securities similar to a bond
Keep in mind that these funds are very volatile, very speculative, and can have low volume and very wide spreads.
Disclosure: Author is long JO and WEAT.
How Did the Meme Stocks Do Last Year? Here’s How
by Fred Fuld III
About a week ago, I heard an analyst on CNBC being interviewed about meme stocks, although he didn’t pronounce it “meeem”, he pronounced it “me-me”. Do you think it was accidental, through ignorance, or on purpose with a hidden meaning?
Whatever you call them, the meme stocks have had a wild ride last year. Surprisingly, a few of them performed extremely well, but many ended up dropping over 40% for the year.
Interestingly, the top performers were GameStock, I mean GameStop (GME) (did I type it that way accidentally or on purpose?), up 688%, and AMC Entertainment (AMC), which rose by 1183%.
The memes that tanked the most were Clovis (CLOV) down 78% and ContextLogic Inc. (WISH), which dropped by 83%.
The following is a list of the meme stocks and semi-meme stocks along with the January 1 to December 31 performance for the year 2021.
| GME | 688% |
| AMC | 1183% |
| CLOV | -78% |
| CRON | -43% |
| DASH | 4% |
| FVRR | -42% |
| HOOD | -49% |
| IQ | -74% |
| OTLY | -61% |
| WE | -27% |
| WISH | -83% |
| BB | 41% |
| SNDL | 22% |
| BYND | -48% |
| SLV | -12% |
Maybe we will see some meme action again this year. What do you think?
Disclosure: Author owns SLV and HOOD.
Pitch Like Hollywood: What You Can Learn from the High-Stakes Film Industry
by Fred Fuld III
Editor & Publisher, Wall Street News Network
Have you ever had to negotiate with your boss about a pay raise, or try to raise money for your company, or interview for a job, or sell a product or service, or even ask someone for a date? If so, it means that you had to give a pitch.
The book, Pitch Like Hollywood: What You Can Learn from the High-Stakes Film Industry, by Peter Desberg and Jeffrey Davis, is all about pitches. The authors show how to create a pitch, how to prepare for a pitch, how to present your pitch, how to deal with pitch panic, and other strategies. This guide even tells you the best time of day to make a pitch.
The book is also useful for those who have to give speeches.
Don’t let the word “Hollywood” in the title deter you from reading this book. Examples from many different industries are included, such as aerospace, education, automobile, technology, advertising, and many others.
The most important aspect of this book that I liked the most was the extensive research and studies that were done to back up what the book presented.
My favorite chapter was Chapter 5 – Persuasion Bootcamp, where the authors present and describe all of the Compliance Gaining Techniques.
It doesn’t matter if you are the head of a startup, or working your way up the corporate ladder, or trying to promote your book to a publisher, or just trying to sell your products or services to a customer or client, I highly recommend Pitch Like Hollywood to anyone who is ever involved in persuasion.
Article includes affiliate links.
19 Tax Selling Stocks Down 50% Selling Below Cash per Share
by Fred Fuld III
We recently published an article on tax selling stocks, which listed several stocks that had dropped significantly this year. Tax selling stocks are ones which are overly depressed in price due to stockholders wanting to take advantage of their capital losses before year-end. Often, these stocks bounce in January when the selling pressure is off.
Some stock traders like to look for additional criteria when they choose which tax selling stocks to buy, and one that is popular is below-cash stocks. These are stocks that if you divided the company’s total cash by the number of outstanding shares, that cash value exceeds the current stock price.
In other words, the stock is trading below the amount of cash available per share. With that much cash, it is hard for a company to go out of business within a month. In addition, it sometimes makes these stocks takeover opportunities.
Of course, there is no guarantee that these stocks will bounce in January. They could continue to drift downward or stay around the same price for a long time.
Here is a list of non-biotech stocks that are down over 50% year-to-date and are selling below cash per share. Also, all of these are selling below $7 per share. In addition, many of them have had increasing revenues over the past few years.
| AFIB |
| AQB |
| ASTC |
| BTBT |
| CMMB |
| CNTX |
| DSS |
| EKSO |
| FKWL |
| FNHC |
| FVE |
| LCI |
| MAPS |
| MYPS |
| NUWE |
| ONVO |
| ROOT |
| SLDB |
| VIVE |
Please keep in mind that these are extremely low cap stocks and are therefore extremely speculative.
Disclosure: At the time the article was written, author owned AFIB AQB ASTC BTBT CMMB CNTX DSS EKSO FKWL FNHC FVE LCI MAPS MYPS NUWE ONVO ROOT
Stocks Going Ex Dividend in January 2022
The following is a short list of some of the many stocks going ex dividend during the next month.
Many traders and investors use the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the strategy of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend.
This technique generally works in bull markets and flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the strategy during bear markets. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date.
The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and some with yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the periodic dividend amount.
| Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) | 1/4/2022 | 0.37 | 2.41% |
| Campbell Soup Company (CPB) | 1/5/2022 | 0.37 | 3.53% |
| WD-40 Company (WDFC) | 1/13/2022 | 0.78 | 1.23% |
| Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW) | 1/18/2022 | 0.80 | 1.28% |
| Clorox Company (CLX) | 1/25/2022 | 1.16 | 2.72% |
| Hasbro, Inc. (HAS) | 1/31/2022 | 0.68 | 2.82% |
The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found HERE . (If you have been to the page before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WSTNN.com HERE .
Dividend definitions:
Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.
Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.
Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.
Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.
Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.
Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written; affiliate links are on this page.
Free COVID Tests: What Stocks Will Benefit?
by Fred Fuld III
By now, you have probably heard the news. President Biden has announced that the U.S. Government will be buying 500 million take-at-home COVID test kits to distribute to Americans.
You will be able to order your free COVID test kit from a website in January.
So who is making the test kits? The government hasn’t announced yet what company or companies it will be buying from, but there are several business involved in producing these kits.
For example, Abbott Labs (ABT) is one of the largest manufacturers of COVID test kits. The company produces five different antigen tests (including theBinaxNow COVID-19 Ag Card2 Home Test), three different PCR tests, three different serological tests, and one isothermal amplification test.
Becton, Dickinson (BDX), which makes several COVID tests, has a BD Veritor At-Home COVID-19 Test.
Quidel Corporation (QDEL), produces many COVID tests, has two at-home COVID tests.
Even Amazon (AMZN) is getting in on the act in partnership with SDS Lab Holdco.
The following is a list of the publicly traded stocks that produce COVID tests. Not all of these companies make an at-home test.
| Abbott Labs (ABT) |
| Amazon (AMZN) |
| Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX) |
| Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (BIO) |
| Bruker Corporation (BRKR) |
| Co-Diagnostics, Inc. (CODX) |
| Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) |
| PerkinElmer, Inc. (PKI) |
| Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LH) |
| LumiraDx Limited (LMDX) |
| Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Holdings plc (OCDX) |
| QIAGEN N.V. (QGEN) |
| Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (DGX) |
| Quidel Corporation (QDEL) |
| Roche Holding AG (RHHBY) |
| Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (TMO) |
Hoping that you and your portfolio stay healthy.
Disclosure: Author is long AMZN.