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Revisiting November 2017 Gold Analysis

I will be publishing a new gold analysis soon but I want to first revisit the analysis I did in November 2017.

In November 2017, and over the course of three Seeking Alpha articles I looked at gold companies. In the first article I looked gold companies trading in the US with the following characteristics: leverage, valuation and sensitivity to gold prices. In the second article I looked more closely at a short list of four companies that did well under the criteria of the first analysis. The third repeated the analysis on Canadian miners.

Here is the performance of all of the companies over the past 18 months

If you click on the "All Securities" link you will see the break down of all the companies in the list.

This blog post is going to look at the three components of the first article to see how predictive each was to the overall return.

Leverage Factor
The first factor was leverage and the criteria was for highly leverage companies (read the article if you want to know…

Was It A Good Call? NVO and Major Pharmeuticals

I published my very first Seeking Alpha article on January 9th, 2017.

I looked at 11 companies classified as Major Pharmaceuticals:

PFEAZNNVOLLYGSKBMYABBVSNYNVSMRKJNJ I concluded that NVO was the best choice as it was undervalued, had high quality earnings and five years of year over year growth in earnings.
How did that call do, roughly 3.5 years later?
We've added a new feature to INVRS called Performance Graphs. Let's take a look:

The green bar shows the average return for the group, the purple annualizes it and the blue divides adjusts the return for risk by dividing it by its standard deviation.

Clicking into the "All Securities" at the bottom breaks the group into its parts. NVO wasn't the best. It was third from a return perspective and second from a risk adjusted perspective. It was double the group average.

LLY and AZN, based on my method of analysis did not have anything to recommend them. They weren't in the running.

I'm pleased with the resu…

Graphs for Seeking Alpha Article - "Dividend Investors: Pick-Up Prudentials"

Hello

In May 2020 I published an article called Dividend Investors: Pick up Prudential Financial on Seeking Alpha which contained a number of graphs.

They're hard to read so I've republished them here:

Dividend Value

Total Return:

Dividend Coverage:

Building and Using an Ass-Kicking Dividend Model

Preamble I'm working with some new features in INVRS that makes it easier to screen using custom investment models. I'm looking through the whole Canadian universe for kick-ass dividend stocks and I'm using the following metrics:
Years of consecutive dividend growth (I set a minimum of eight for this analysis),Dividend coverage,Value relative to historical dividend yield. andTotal return (defined as projected dividend yield plus projected dividend growth). My initial screen is a dividend yield greater than 3%. There were several hundred and I winnowed these down by running an analysis that extracted the companies that had increased their dividends per share every year for at least the past eight years. And this is where we begin...
Constructing the Template for Year Over Year Dividend Growth To construct this model I selected eight years of dividend per share data, then wrote if(A>B,0,1) eight times, just changing the letters as I went back in time. This says that if…

Five Good Canadian Dividend Stocks

Five Good Canadian Dividend Stocks Analysis Methodology Refer to the blog post of November 27, 2019 for a description of the method used.
Candidates As of November 27, 2019, the following companies from the universe of all TSX stocks have a dividend yield between 3.54% and 11.80% and have increased their dividend consecutively for at least five years:
AIAQNBCECGXCMCPXCU.XCUP.UEIFENFFCD.UNINEIPLLBMFCNAPEGIPPLRYTTCL.ATCL.BTDUNS Analysis Dividend Coverage
We're looking for companies with positive coverage and less than 75%.
Possible companies include:
RYTCL.ATCL.BNAUNSMFC Valuation
We're looking for companies equal to or greater than one.
Possible companies include:
UNSTCL.ATCL.BCGXENFIPLLBCU.XMFCCMTDTPPLRYBCE Total Return
We're going to use a sweet spot criteria of greater than 10% and less than 20%. Companies include:
AQNENFMFCIPLCU.XTDTCL.ATTCL.BCPXFCD.UNRYCMPPLNACGXUNSLBEIFBCE The Trifecta From a beginning portfolio 99 companies the final five that occupy the centre of th…

Dividend Analysis Framework

Dividend Analysis Framework Using INVRS

A complete dividend analysis can be easily conducted in INVRS. Some set up is required, but once complete you can run the analysis at will, with only small tweaks necessary to reflect your personal preferences and changing market conditions.

1. Canadian Analysis: Use INVRS to calculate the current dividend yield of the TSX 60 (average dividend yield of the 60 member stocks). US analysis: Use INVRS to calculate the average dividend yield of the 500 member stocks.

More details:
Create a portfolio of the 60 Canadian companies and/or a portfolio of the 500 US Companies. Create a template using the dividend yield metric of your choice. Options are Dividend Yield Daily (dividends per share / most recent last close price), Forward Dividend Yield (this is a calculation you create - choose the Dividend Rate (most recent dividend multiplied by the number of times the company pays a dividend) and divide by the Current Price,Dividend Yield Fiscal or Di…