Shailesh Kumar, MBA

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[Inner Circle] $SNA – Dividend Fortress Portfolio Stock Review

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[This analysis was originally published on March 20, 2025] You can build an industrial behemoth with a single idea. This is what this company did. They started out building interchangeable handles and sockets for the automotive repair industry in 1920. Automobiles were just catching on and repair was a growing market. Pretty soon, they started […]

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Best Investments During Inflation: How to Protect and Grow Your Wealth

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Inflation is the Silent Wealth Killer For all of us today, inflation is a fact of life. We all know that the prices tend to increase as the years roll by. Many of us have fond memories of the bygone times when the same things we buy today cost so much less. A dollar used

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20 Best Dividend Growth Stocks That Large-Cap Investors Can’t Ignore – Mar 2025

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The best dividend growth stocks give you a history of consistent dividend growth, nice current dividend yield, and a low payout ratio that means the dividend should keep growing in the near future. In addition, a history of EPS growth adds additional confidence that the company is well run and growing, and your investment in

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Secrets of Buying Stocks on Margin Without Blowing Up Your Portfolio

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I have made a lot of money buying stocks on margin. But I have also lost money. Investing on margin can bring rapid gains to your portfolio, but if you are not careful, it can also blow up your portfolio. We don’t want to blow up our portfolios. Let’s review how we can avoid this.

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Building an Income Factory Portfolio in 5 Steps

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Transforming Your Portfolio into a Cash-Generating Machine We know that compound interest is the 8th wonder of the modern world, and with consistent compounding, our portfolios can grow significantly given enough time. However, investing today places a great deal of focus on buying stocks that appreciate in value, and not much on buying investments that

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20 Large Cap Stocks with Piotroski F-Score of 9 – March 2025

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A high Piotroski F-Score of 9 means the company has financials like Fort Knox, and it is getting stronger. Historically, these stocks when paired with low Price/Book ratio have performed 7.5% better than the market annually, on average. This is pretty much a cheat code to a high performing portfolio. So what does the score

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How to Use Economic Moats for Long-Term Investing Success

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The Power of Economic Moats in Value Investing The first rule of investing is “do not lose money”. This speaks to the need for investors to make sure that the compounding of their investments proceeds in one direction only – up. While this is hard to ensure given the daily market noise, over a period

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5 Best Mid Cap Dividend Growth Stocks in the Market Today – March 2025

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Dividend growth investing has been a reliable wealth creator for a large number of investors over the years. There is something magical about compound interest, and when it kicks in, the portfolio growth seems to take on a life of its own. Generally when we discuss dividend growth stocks, we expect them to be slow

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Using AI for Investing: How Technology is Changing Value Investing

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Introduction: The New Frontier in Value Investing Value investing has always been a tedious work. Countless hours spent in reading annual reports, scouring SEC filings and tracking earnings calls before you can even sit down to condense your insights and formulate a plausible thesis for or against an investment. Using AI for investing research and

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Using Leverage Responsibly in an Income Factory Portfolio

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Introduction: The Power and Peril of Leverage Many investors live and die by margin. I generally advise investors to avoid margin in most cases since there is sufficient market risk and black swan event risk to wipe out your portfolio, if things do not go your way. When things are working, of course, leverage can

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