 | Based on my expectation that the markets will continue to move sideways next week (with the potential for the markets to pullback to lower levels before the end of the month), I intend to simply sell short term call options on positions I already own and invest any dividends I receive in income producing stocks until the market pulls back to a more reasonable level. Many of the stocks previously listed in this "Best Ideas" section of this site have already moved significantly higher and I'd just rather wait for better prices before investing in those companies. But for those who desire to invest long term, I've also included a couple of good ideas for the future (see below). |
Vail Resorts, Inc. operates mountain resorts and urban ski areas in the United States. The company operates through three segments: Mountain, Lodging, and Real Estate. The Mountain segment operates nine mountain resorts, including Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, and Keystone resorts in Colorado; Park City Mountain resort in Utah; Heavenly, Northstar, and Kirkwood in the Lake Tahoe area of California and Nevada; and Perisher in Australia, as well as three urban ski areas, such as Wilmot Mountain in Wisconsin, Afton Alps in Minnesota, and Mount Brighton in Michigan. Its resorts offer various winter and summer recreational activities, including skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, snowtubing, sightseeing, mountain biking, guided hiking, zip lines, challenge ropes courses, alpine slides and mountain coasters, children's activities, and other recreational activities; and ski and snowboard lessons, equipment rental and retail merchandise services, dining venues, private club operations, and other winter and summer recreational activities. This segment also leases its owned and leased commercial space to third party operators; and provides real estate brokerage services. The Lodging segment owns and/or manages various luxury hotels and condominiums under the RockResorts brand, and other lodging properties; various condominiums located in proximity to the company's mountain resorts; destination resorts; and golf courses, as well as offers resort ground transportation services. This segment operates approximately 4,500 owned and managed hotel and condominium units. The Real Estate segment owns, develops, and sells real estate properties in and around the company's resort communities. Vail Resorts, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado.
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| 26 March 2017 Price $187.53 1yr Target $211.43 Analysts 7 Dividend $3.48 Payout Ratio 79.81% 1yr Cap Gain 12.74% Yield 1.85% 1yr Tot Return 14.59% P/E 43.06 PEG 3.36 Beta 0.51 | EPS (ttm) $4.36 EPS next yr $6.03 Forward P/E 31.08 EPS next 5yr 12.80% 1yr Price Support $77.18 Market Cap $7.50 Bil Revenues $1.73 Bil Earnings $179.00 Mil Profit Margin 10.34% Quick Ratio 0.40 Current Ratio 0.60 Debt/Equity 0.85 | 1yr RevGR 14.43% 3yr RevGR 12.51% 5yr RevGR 6.52% 1yr EarnGR 30.61% 3yr EarnGR 56.60% 5yr EarnGR 33.66% 1yr DivGR 38.07% 3yr DivGR 51.72% 5yr DivGR 80.38% ROA 5.50% ROE 15.40% |
Vail Resorts (MTN) had declared $1.053/share quarterly dividend, 30% increase from prior dividend of $0.81. Payable April 13; for shareholders of record March 29; ex-div March 27.
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Steel Dynamics, Inc. engages in the steel products manufacturing and metals recycling businesses in the United States and internationally. The company operates through Steel Operations, Metals Recycling Operations, Steel Fabrication Operations, and Other segments. The Steel Operations segment provides a range of sheet steel products, such as hot roll, cold roll, and coated steel products; structural steel beams and pilings to construction market; various rail products for the railroad industry; rounds, round-cornered squares, and round engineered bars; threaded rod products, and cold drawn and heat treated bars; angles, merchant rounds, flats and channels, and reinforcing bar; and beams, channels, and specialty steel sections. This segment serves construction, automotive, manufacturing, transportation, heavy and agriculture equipment, and pipe and tube markets. The Metals Recycling Operations segment is involved in the purchase, process, and resale of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals into reusable forms and grades. Its ferrous products include heavy melting steel, busheling, bundled scrap, shredded scrap, steel turnings, and cast iron products; and nonferrous products comprise aluminum, brass, copper, stainless steel, and other nonferrous metals. This segment also provides transportation logistics, management, marketing, brokerage, and consulting services related to the scrap industry. The Steel Fabrication Operations segment produces steel building components comprising steel joists, girders, trusses, and steel decks primarily for the non-residential construction industry. The Other segment offers pig and hot briquetted iron; and iron nugget products that are used in electric arc furnace steel mill production. Steel Dynamics, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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| 26 March 2017 Price $33.89 1yr Target $42.31 Analysts 13 Dividend $0.62 Payout Ratio 39.49% 1yr Cap Gain 24.84% Yield 1.82% 1yr Tot Return 26.66% P/E 21.64 PEG 0.53 Beta 1.48 | EPS (ttm) $1.57 EPS next yr $2.65 Forward P/E 12.77 EPS next 5yr 40.55% 1yr Price Support $107.45 Market Cap $8.21 Bil Revenues $7.78 Bil Earnings $382.10 Mil Profit Margin 4.91% Quick Ratio 2.30 Current Ratio 4.10 Debt/Equity 0.81 | 1yr RevGR 2.40% 3yr RevGR 1.78% 5yr RevGR -0.56% 1yr EarnGR --- 3yr EarnGR 23.15% 5yr EarnGR 5.03% 1yr DivGR 1.81% 3yr DivGR 8.28% 5yr DivGR 6.96% ROA 5.80% ROE 13.40% |
Steel Dynamics (STLD) declares $0.155/share quarterly dividend, 10.7% increase from prior dividend of $0.14. Forward yield 1.75% Payable April 10; for shareholders of record March 31; ex-div March 29.
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Gladstone Capital’s debt investments primarily consist of three types of loans to small and medium sized businesses in the US: senior term loans, senior subordinated loans, and junior subordinated loans. Loans range from $5 million to $30 million with terms of up to seven years. The company's equity investments typically take the form of preferred or common equity. Historically the company aims to maintain a portfolio consisting of approximately 90% debt investments and 10% equity investments, at cost. The company's goals are to achieve and grow current income through their debt investments that allow distributions to shareholders to grow over time and provide shareholders with long term appreciation in the value of their assets by investing in equity securities that can grow over time. Gladstone Capital pays a monthly dividend at the end of each month. The company's current dividend is 9.30%.
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Gladstone Investment makes debt and equity investments in established private businesses in the US. Debt investments primarily come in the form of three types of loans: senior term loans, senior subordinated loans and junior subordinated debt. Equity investments primarily take the form of preferred or common equity often in connection with buyouts and other recapitalizations. The company's investments typically range from $5 to $30 million, and aims to maintain an investment allocation of approximately 75% in debt securities and 25% in equity securities. The company's investment objectives are to achieve and grow current income by investing in debt securities of established businesses that they believe will provide stable earnings and cash flow to pay expenses, make principal and interest payments on our outstanding indebtedness and make distributions to stockholders that we anticipate will grow over time and to provide the company's shareholders with long-term capital appreciation in the value of their assets by investing in equity securities of established businesses that they hope will appreciate over time so that we can sell them for capital gains. Gladstone Investment pays a monthly dividend at the end of each month. The company's current dividend is 8.51%.
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Gladstone Commercial is a real estate investment trust and its typical investment ranges from $5 million to $20 million. Gladstone Commercial’s portfolio of real estate is leased to a wide cross section of tenants ranging from small businesses to large public companies, many of which are corporations that do not have publicly rated debt. Gladstone Commercial intends to continue to enter into purchase agreements for real estate with existing triple net leases with terms of approximately 10 to 15 years, with built in rental increases. Gladstone Commercial provides two types of real estate transactions:
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Gladstone Land Corporation, an externally-managed agricultural real estate investment trust, owns and leases farmland to corporate and independent farmers in the United States. The company’s farms allow its tenants to grow row crops, such as lettuce and tomatoes; and berries comprising strawberries and raspberries. As of December 28, 2015, it owned 43 farms covering an area of 16,810 acres located in 6 states across the United States. The company also leases a parcel on its farm near Oxnard, California to an oil company. Gladstone Land Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in McLean, Virginia. Gladstone Land pays a monthly dividend at the end of each month. The company's current dividend is 4.68%.
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Gladstone Investment makes debt and equity investments in established private businesses in the US. Debt investments primarily come in the form of three types of loans: senior term loans, senior subordinated loans and junior subordinated debt. Equity investments primarily take the form of preferred or common equity often in connection with buyouts and other recapitalizations. The company's investments typically range from $5 to $30 million, and aims to maintain an investment allocation of approximately 75% in debt securities and 25% in equity securities. The company's investment objectives are to achieve and grow current income by investing in debt securities of established businesses that they believe will provide stable earnings and cash flow to pay expenses, make principal and interest payments on our outstanding indebtedness and make distributions to stockholders that we anticipate will grow over time and to provide the company's shareholders with long-term capital appreciation in the value of their assets by investing in equity securities of established businesses that they hope will appreciate over time so that we can sell them for capital gains. Gladstone Investment pays a monthly dividend at the end of each month. The company's current dividend is 8.51%.
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Gladstone Commercial is a real estate investment trust and its typical investment ranges from $5 million to $20 million. Gladstone Commercial’s portfolio of real estate is leased to a wide cross section of tenants ranging from small businesses to large public companies, many of which are corporations that do not have publicly rated debt. Gladstone Commercial intends to continue to enter into purchase agreements for real estate with existing triple net leases with terms of approximately 10 to 15 years, with built in rental increases. Gladstone Commercial provides two types of real estate transactions:
- They purchase real estate already owned by a business and lease it back to them; therefore freeing up their equity in the real estate
- They buy real estate that is already leased to good tenants
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Gladstone Land Corporation, an externally-managed agricultural real estate investment trust, owns and leases farmland to corporate and independent farmers in the United States. The company’s farms allow its tenants to grow row crops, such as lettuce and tomatoes; and berries comprising strawberries and raspberries. As of December 28, 2015, it owned 43 farms covering an area of 16,810 acres located in 6 states across the United States. The company also leases a parcel on its farm near Oxnard, California to an oil company. Gladstone Land Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in McLean, Virginia. Gladstone Land pays a monthly dividend at the end of each month. The company's current dividend is 4.68%.
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