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The Motley Fool
August 2, 2005
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ServiceMaster Does the Job While the stock hardly promises bottle-rocket performance, its slow, steady growth in both income and dividends can provide a market-matching or market-beating total return for you   |
The Motley Fool
April 30, 2004
Rich Smith |
ServiceMaster Smiles Home maintenance guru ServiceMaster, owner of such well-known brands as American Home Shield, TruGreen, Merry Maids and Terminix, doubled its earnings per share in the first quarter of 2004. |
The Motley Fool
November 7, 2005
Rich Smith |
ServiceMaster Spins It's been a rough couple of trading days for investors in the company behind such brands as Terminix, ChemLawn, and TruGreen, ever since the company reported earnings. |
The Motley Fool
May 12, 2005
W.D. Crotty |
Serving the Master ServiceMaster reports a weak quarter but still sticks by 2005 guidance. So, is the stock tempting? |
The Motley Fool
November 4, 2004
W.D. Crotty |
Service Bundling Sweeps Up ServiceMaster profitably bundles services and pays a healthy 3.5% dividend. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2004
Rich Smith |
American Standard Still Clogged American Standard reported strong results, but debt remains a factor. |
The Motley Fool
February 17, 2004
Rich Smith |
ServiceMaster Slips A massive charge to earnings put ServiceMaster in the red for 2003. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2005
Tim Beyers |
Buffett's Magical Investing Principle Sure, successful investing requires real work. But the principles aren't all that difficult to learn. In fact, you may find yourself beating the market soundly over the long term if you focus on only one of the many things that have made superinvestor Warren Buffett successful. |
The Motley Fool
July 31, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: ServiceMaster's House Call With its historically weakest first quarter behind it, home, lawn, and wood-destroying insect warrantor is all set to report its historically strongest second-quarter earnings numbers tomorrow morning. Need some clues on how the company's doing? |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Places for Great Investment Ideas There are some good investment newsletters out there, even from us. |
The Motley Fool
February 22, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Total Gives Something Back The French oil giant is not only well-diversified but also keenly focused on shareholders' interests. |
The Motley Fool
May 9, 2006
Jeremy MacNealy |
ServiceMaster Still Serviceable? Why is the market shunning this residential and commercial services company? Here is a closer look. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2006
Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Calling ServiceMaster Wall Street wasn't amused when home warrantor, termite zapper, and grass fertilizer ServiceMaster missed earnings estimates back in February. Can this corporate handyman regain the Street's graces when it reports first-quarter 2006 earnings news? Tune in Monday morning to find out. |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
Beat the Bear Dividends are the best protectors against a slumping market. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2006
Nathan Parmelee |
Servicemaster's Bad Rap The growth isn't obvious, but the cash flow is there, and the underlying business of this lawn-care, pest-control, and plumbing service company is sound. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2004
Bill Mann |
ServiceMaster Looks Clean to Berkshire The purchase of ServiceMaster and Comcast, along with Pier 1, seems to fit into a pattern of Berkshire Hathaway stock purchases of the last few years -- all seeming to focus on the home. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2005
Rich Smith |
How to Turn $1,000 Into $1 Million There's no reason that it can't happen for you. Save money. Invest it regularly. Let the magic of compounding returns work for you. |
The Motley Fool
December 8, 2004
Rich Smith |
How to Turn $1,000 Into $1 Million There's no reason it can't happen for you. Save money. Invest it regularly. Let the magic of compounding returns work for you. |
The Motley Fool
January 10, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Get Paid to Retire Some companies will pay you to retire, even if you don't work for them. Here's how to fund a substantial portion of your retirement with dividends. |
The Motley Fool
July 7, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Baby Breaker Birth Announcements We track the week in private equity in search of investments of the future: Clearwire... EcoSMART Technologies... |
The Motley Fool
October 21, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
Warren Sticks to His Word Almost six years ago, Warren Buffett warned investors that returns for the next decade would be closer to 6% than the 10% to 12% per year that most expected. But there are a couple of strategies that investors can employ to help nudge their performance a bit higher. |
The Motley Fool
June 10, 2005
Tim Hanson |
Do You Have the Stomach to Beat the Market? Your gut for making money may be stronger than you think. But you can beat the market without a stomach of steel. Dividends will help you do it. |
CRM
June 2004
Emmy Favilla |
CRM in Action: Turn Agents Into Experts If the agents ask the right questions, customers feel more comfortable. |
The Motley Fool
December 23, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
The Investing Strategy That Keeps Giving The best results from dividends require patience, a long-term time horizon, and excellent companies for your investment dollars. |
The Motley Fool
May 24, 2004
Bob Bobala |
Get Paid to Invest Dividend investing offers a way to have your cake and eat it, too. Dividends ensure better accounting practices and cash in your pockets. But investors seeking steady payouts don't necessarily have to sacrifice growth. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2005
Tim Hanson |
Death to Lower Taxes? Warning: Your future dividends and gains may be confiscated. This means that if you plan on holding an investment for at least four years, there's a chance that your returns in the future will be lower than you'd hoped. |
The Motley Fool
November 19, 2004
Salim Haji |
Gleaning Insights From Berkshire Other than Comcast and ServiceMaster additions, it's been a quiet quarter of trading for this portfolio. |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2004
Rich Smith |
Home Depot Fights Back Home Depot goes to the Web to deliver a solid counterpunch to Sears. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
3 Stocks for Martha Martha Stewart means business on prime time. Here are three companies that should suit her portfolio just fine. Provide Commerce... Ameritrade... ServiceMaster... |
The Motley Fool
August 26, 2005
Nathan Parmelee |
The Limits of Cash A strong yield is only as good as the company's ability to fund it. The market is chock-full of companies with high dividend yields, but not all of them are worthy of your investment dollars. |
The Motley Fool
January 5, 2005 |
Recommended Reading Here are some books that can turbocharge your investing: The Motley Fool Rule Breakers, Rule Makers by David and Tom Gardner... The Wealthy Barber by David Chilton... One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch with John Rothchild... etc. |
The Motley Fool
March 12, 2004
Selena Maranjian |
Religious Revenues Beyond Mel Gibson's movie, Christianity is big business in America. |
The Motley Fool
August 7, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
4 Stocks That Took a Hike Companies with growing yields can make you rich in more ways than the obvious. Cohen & Steers... Carlisle... ServiceMaster... Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers... |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2005
Paul Elliott |
Keep Your CEO Out of Jail Buy dividend paying stocks, keep CEOs honest. This is not the first time a pretty smart cookie told the author that buying dividend-paying stocks is the only way to invest. Maybe this time he'll listen? |
The Motley Fool
May 11, 2005
Brian Richards |
What Every Portfolio Needs Want a strong core investment? Look no further than dividend-paying stocks. |
The Motley Fool
August 2, 2005
Tim Beyers |
ServiceMaster Serves Earnings: Fool by Numbers The company released second quarter earnings: Income Statement Highlights... Margin Checkup... Balance Sheet Highlights... Cash Flow Highlights... |
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May/Jun 2002
Lauren Raymond |
Nobody's Fool Real estate investors of all levels turn to The Motley Fool's discussion board to ask questions, share information and learn from peers... |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2006
Seth Jayson |
Play the Right Numbers Dividends aren't just boring cash payments. They're predictors of long-term, market-beating returns. |
The Motley Fool
November 30, 2006
Ralph Casale |
Dueling Fools: Dividends Investing is generally fraught with future promise. Dividends can be an island of stability in a turbulent market, helping investors achieve long-term outsized gains. |
The Motley Fool
August 10, 2009
Dan Caplinger |
This Mistake Could Cost You $3.8 Million You can't afford not to reinvest dividends. |
