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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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Brady Corp. (BRC) was incorporated in 1914 and is headquartered in Milwaukee. The company manufactures and supplies identification solutions (IDS) and workplace safety (WPS) products to identify and protect premises, products, and people, says Kelley Wright, editor of Investment Quality Trends.
Kelley Wright
INDUSTRIALS
Tickers: BRC
Air Products and Chemicals (APD) is one of the largest global producers of industrial gases, as well as a major player in specialty chemicals. It is the world’s leading supplier of hydrogen and carbon monoxide products (HYCO) and helium. APD’s Q1 earnings report was not exactly stellar, but it remains a long-time IQT favorite, counsels Kelley Wright, editor of Investment Quality Trends.
Kelley Wright
INDUSTRIALS
Tickers: APD
At Investment Quality Trends, dividend and value expert Kelley Wright maintains a Timely Ten of his current best ideas and an annual Lucky 13 list of each year's top recommendations. 3M Co. (MMM) appears on both of these elite lists.
Kelley Wright
INDUSTRIALS
Tickers: MMM
Bank stocks, you may have noticed, weren’t exactly in favor in 2023. Which begs the question of why look at a bank at all? My answer is when a bank doesn’t act like a typical bank, but more like an asset allocator, which Westamerica Bancorporation (WABC) is exceptionally good at, highlights Kelley Wright, editor of Investment Quality Trends.
Kelley Wright
FINANCIALS
Tickers: WABC
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Kelley Wright
Dividends Still Don't Lie
Written by Kelley Wright, Managing Editor of Investment Quality Trends, with a new Foreword by Geraldine Weiss, this book teaches a value-based strategy to investing, one that uses a stock's dividend yield as the primary measure of value. Rather than
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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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