OMG ......... I hang out these sites and soak up the car knowledge and the humor and always enjoy the camaraderie......until now. I never thought that I'd actually get something out of it that could actually benefit the entire family and our future!!!
When Trey first posted this thread, I looked at it, watched it, read it, read some more ...... and then it started to grow into the mega-thread that it is today and couldn't stay away from it. Up to this point I just kept saying to myself "This is the Year I'm finally going to do something. You know what? IT IS!!!!!
I've had money sitting in savings (cash) doing next to NOTHING right through the ugliness '07, '08, '09, '10.... now I need to put this cash to work.
I've also sat back for the last 5 years at my job and GAVE MONEY away, by not getting into the company 401K that gets MATCHED by the company. Through the bulk of the housing crunch I saw so many friends and coworkers getting their collective 401K azzes kicked, losing tons of cash, so I thought why jump into that alligator pit? What in idiot, right? sheeesh
Greg ...... what a friggin inspiration you are... because of your success!!! It's one thing to have someone run their mouth spewing investment advice and not know whether they had any real life success, but you have tons of facts to back it up. The others that have chimed in on a regular basis blend nicely so that it never became the "GregWeld" thread hehehe
I feel like this thread has really awaken some of the lurkers on Lat-G, even though there haven't been a ton of different people responding to this thread, if you look, the thread ...... at over 22,000 views, is the most viewed thread ever in the Off Topic Forums section. That speaks volumes to the interest that it has created.
SO, I digress ....... First, for the life of me since I started doing research on several stocks, I cannot find Total Return on any stock's Info Page. Div/Yield is the closest thing to it.
I've been looking at:
ATT (T)
Coke (KO)
Chevron (CVX)
Harris Corp (HRS)
McDonalds (MCD)
Rock Tenn (RKT)
Westar Energy (WR)
and I have a meeting tomorrow to finally get into our company's 401K - not sure which direction to go on this one, It's Fidelity I believe.