Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

The Motley Fool June 27, 2008	What's a Dividend? Some companies repay your investment with cold, hard cash.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2006 Chuck Saletta	Simply Make Money The K.I.S.S. principle works for investing, too. 1. Buy great companies at good prices. 2. Reinvest your dividends until you need them. 3. When you need money, live off your dividend streams.
The Motley Fool July 20, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Mohawk Gets a Trim The downturn in the residential housing market has hurt carpet and flooring manufacturer Mohawk, but they have plans underfoot to emerge stronger than before.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2007 Rich Smith	Mulling Masco's Valuation Home-improvement products maker Masco performs better than expected in the third-quarter. With low valuation and a hefty dividend, this is a stock to take a look at.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2007 David Lee Smith	Two More Homebuilders Get Nailed Pulte and Beazer become the latest large homebuilders to sink into loss positions. Investors without a longer than average time horizon are urged to avoid this sector.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	The Slowdown Begins at Building Materials If the selling gets too carried away, Building Materials Holding's stock may emerge as a value.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2007 Emil Lee	Is Mohawk Still a Value Play? A growing, diverse Mohawk still looks appetizing. Value investors should take note.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann	Fortune Brands' Unfortunate Home Exposure Look to Fortune Brands for its spirit exposure. There's no hurry to buy the shares, since 2007 could be a challenging year, but make sure to keep this company on your watch list.
The Motley Fool October 20, 2008 David Lee Smith	Can Toll Lead the Housing Recovery? In addition to its luxury builder position, Toll offers balance sheet strength.
The Motley Fool February 17, 2005	What's a Dividend? A dividend is a portion of a company's earnings that the firm pays out to its shareholders.
The Motley Fool May 1, 2007 David Lee Smith	Centex Gives Inventory the Chop This major homebuilder holds the lead among major builders in cutting land positions and options. But patient investors may yet be rewarded.
The Motley Fool November 17, 2006 Tim Hanson	Stocks to Save Your Fortune The last stock market crash started in 2000 and lasted all the way until 2002. If you were invested during that time, you know how much it hurt. The next crash will hurt as much, if not more, particularly if you make the same mistakes again.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2011 Jim Royal	There's a Bright Spot in Home Improvement Home improvement looks like it is slowly rising.
IndustryWeek December 16, 2009	Masco - Builder Cabinet Group: IW Best Plants Profile 2009 Masco Takes It 'One Kitchen at a Time': Single-piece flow process has helped plant endure one of the worst housing downturns in U.S. history.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann	Dueling Fools: Home Depot Bull Rebuttal Investors, despite short-term woes, Home Depot's still going strong.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Meet Masco Investors want to know: Will the home fixtures maker make it three in a row for earnings beats when it reports its fiscal third-quarter 2006 numbers?
The Motley Fool April 30, 2007 David Lee Smith	Building Materials' Sawed-Off Results Investors, with the housing market and building construction continuing to retreat, Building Materials Holding Corporation has seen its roof cave in.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Mulling Masco The home-improvement products maker is set to report its third-quarter 2007 earnings shortly. Investors, do you want to know what Wall Street expects to see? Do you want to know what really matters?
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 David Lee Smith	Builders to the Junkyard? The next step in housing's multi-phase crisis could be downgrading the builders to junk status. Several big building stocks, including Lennar, Centex, and Pulte, are currently being scrutinized by Moody's.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2010 Selena Maranjian	A Market-Beating Safety Net for Your Stocks Dividends can protect your stock's downside.
The Motley Fool November 14, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Home Depot Pulling Up Stakes? In advance of earnings, analysts expect Home Depot to suffer a sharp drop in profits.
The Motley Fool April 23, 2007 David Lee Smith	No Light in Horton's Tunnel The homebuilder D.R. Horton saw earnings plummet 85% year over year, and management foresees no real improvement.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2008 David Lee Smith	Three More on the Housing Slide Three more homebuilders, Meritage Homes, Pulte, and Centex, have reported, all demonstrating that builders are still hurting.
The Motley Fool April 10, 2007 David Lee Smith	Housing's Next Down Leg? D.R. Horton's second-quarter sales figures represented more negative news from the homebuilders. Investors, if you can't justify a longer-than-normal investment time horizon, keep your wallet in your pocket.
The Motley Fool November 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Are Any Builders Worth Your Shekels? The time isn't yet right to buy the homebuilders, but some preliminary analysis can't hurt.
The Motley Fool July 14, 2008 Selena Maranjian	Demand Dedicated Dividends Let's sing the praises of dividend growth investing, and look at the smart way to seek out growing dividends.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2008 David Lee Smith	Could the Builders Begin to Topple? Homebuilding news is worsening, leading some to doubt that all the builders will survive.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2007 David Lee Smith	Pulte Joins Builders' Bad News Line Pulte only adds to the lengthening line of builders already warning of softer-than-expected quarterly results.
The Motley Fool January 25, 2008 Selena Maranjian	Optimizing Dividends Look for solid and growing yields -- especially when stock prices fall.
The Motley Fool December 18, 2007 David Lee Smith	Are the Builders Getting Bored? The builders still aren't happy, and -- surprise -- they're not as busy as they used to be.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 David Lee Smith	Battered Builders Falling Faster As part of a horrible week for housing, big builders lined up with huge quarterly losses. In the midst of this continuously declining set of circumstances, investors are urged to build a barrier between themselves and the battered builders.
The Motley Fool July 26, 2007 David Lee Smith	Centex Back at the Chopping Block Even Dallas-based Centex home builders, in the 'healthiest' market in the country, reported big losses this quarter.
The Motley Fool August 7, 2008 David Lee Smith	Horton Hammered Hard Yes, the quarterly results were more than half again better than a year ago. But the losses are still relatively large and aren't falling at a rate that would indicate that the end of the company's travails is near.
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Rich Smith	Masco's Wooden Nickel The building products maker cuts a nickel from guidance, attributing it to lower housing starts. Investors take note.
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Adam Cohen	The Contrarian Way A bear market tends to focus the mind, and once again investors have learned that companies that pay a dividend tend to have good cash flow. There are many ways to get clients exposure to dividend strategies, from new ETFs and closed-end funds to actively managed funds.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 David Lee Smith	Homebuilders Up 25% in One Day? Crazy? Absolutely. And housing's flood of bad news since then has already washed away the results. Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Dean Foust	A Scary Stretch Of Vacant Lots If demand for homes slows, builders' recent land grabs could hammer profits.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Rich Duprey	Foolish Forecast: Leaky Roof at Centex The homebuilder will report its third-quarter 2007 financial results shortly, where it is likely investors will see another homebuilder falling into a state of disrepair.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2006 Nathan Parmelee	The Power of Assists Dividends aren't flashy and quite often they're ignored altogether. However, over years, dividends allow investors to rack up larger gains.
The Motley Fool August 22, 2008 David Lee Smith	Housing's Bottom Isn't Showing Yet While builders' shares have improved, the housing news remains weak.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2007 David Lee Smith	The Housing Slump's Third Phase It seems that Pulte signaled another phase of the housing crisis with its recent restructuring announcement. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 David Lee Smith	Housing's Horrible Hiatus As bad as they were, the 2007 housing start numbers probably should have been worse.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2006 David Lee Smith	How Now the Homebuilders? Homebuilders' share prices have always correlated inversely to interest rate movements. No one knows when the Fed will reverse its recent string of rate increases. Given these imponderables, investors may want to avoid the group until the picture turns brighter.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2008 Rich Duprey	Home Depot's No Stock of the Year Home Depot didn't have what it took to be Stock of the Year last year (and it probably won't this year, either), but it may be showing the beginnings of being a runner-up in the works.