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Kelley Wright entered the financial services industry in 1984 as a stock broker, first with a private investment boutique in La Jolla and later with Dean Witter Reynolds. In 1990, he left the retail side of the industry for private portfolio management. In 2002, Mr. Wright succeeded Geraldine Weiss as the managing editor of the Investment Quality Trends newsletter as well as the chief investment officer and portfolio manager for IQ Trends Private Client. His commentaries have been published in Barron's, Forbes, BusinessWeek, Dow Jones MarketWatch, The Economist, and many other business and financial periodicals. Mr. Wright is an active speaker at trade shows and investment conferences, and is a frequent guest and contributor to radio and CNBC. He is the author of Dividends Still Don't Lie, which was published in February, 2010, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc. (MAA) specializes in acquiring, developing, and managing apartment communities. It owns and operates nearly 300 properties in 16 states and Washington, DC. The company’s focus on innovation and technology presents opportunities for growth, enabling it to cater to evolving tenant preferences and expectations, advises Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Change isn’t coming. It is already here. Markets change. It is part of the natural order. Meanwhile, Bank OZK (OZK) is a regional bank that has been in my Rising Trends category that I have wanted to target, highlights Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
The world is not coming to an end. It is starting to reprice, though, and the excesses will be disgorged. I told you the Mag 7 was the same as the Nifty Fifty. There is nothing new under the sun. Meanwhile, I like Agco Corp. (AGCO), says Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Imperial Oil Ltd. (IMO) is one of Canada's largest integrated oil companies, with a history dating back to its incorporation in 1880. The company operates across three main segments: Upstream, Downstream, and Chemical, notes Kelley Wright, editor of IQ Trends.
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Stocks that pay dividends have specific repeatable patterns that can be exploited. When the yield is large enough dividend-paying stocks tend to attract buying.
At MoneyShow Dallas, Kelley Wright on dividend opportunities: Philip Morris has a yield in excess of 5. Public Storage, a REIT, around 4.5%, Whirlpool, classic Consumer Discretionary, is interesting.
At mid-year, Kelley Wright highlights some of the best performers and their current outlook on these Top Picks: Philip Morris (PM).
Among the stocks and mutuals that he likes: American Express (AXP), Franklin Resources (BEN), T. Rowe Price (TROW), Cummins (CMI), Fluor (FLR), Union Pacific (UNP). He tells Nancy Zambell why.
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Investment Quality Trends
One of the most long-lived of all investment newsletters, Investment Quality Trends has been making money for its subscribers since 1966, following the wonderfully old-fashioned idea that one should purchase the top dividend-paying stocks when the dividend yield is historically high, sell when the dividend yield declines to historic lows and completely avoid stocks which pay no dividend at all.
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