149th Edition of the Festival of Stocks

Welcome to the July 13, 2009 edition of Festival of Stocks. The Festival of Stocks is a blog carnival dedicated to highlighting bloggers best posts on stock market related topics. Fat Pitch Financials is the actual birth place of this online weekly event, so it is always a special occasion when I get the chance to host this roving event. Here are this week’s Festival of Stocks participants:

The Best of Both Worlds: Tata Investment Corp posted at KuberKhana. A company to invest in for the laid back, passive investor.

Different Types of Stock Market Indexes posted at ABCs of Investing. How different types of stock market indexes work.

Stock Review: Jackson Hewitt Tax Service (JTX) posted at MagicDiligence. Jackson Hewitt has had a tough 3 years, with misbehaving franchisees, trouble securing refund anticipation loan funding, and the lack of an online product leading business elsewhere. With new management and rumors of a sale, is there value in the current stock price?

United Technologies Corp. (UTX) Dividend Stock Analysis posted at Dividends Value. United Technologies Corp. is an aerospace-industrial conglomerate with a portfolio including Pratt & Whitney jet engines, Sikorsky helicopters, Otis elevators and Carrier air conditioners, among other products. Linked here is a detailed analysis and commentary.

The Equalization of the Global Standard of Living posted at Bootstrap Investing. Some obvious and less obvious affects of globalization.

A Green Shoot That Is Not Less Bad But Actually Good posted at Disciplined Approach to Investing. One data point that is actually positive and not just less bad is the New Orders minus Inventories (NO-I) data point.

Dividend News: A Few Increases, More Expected in July posted at Dividend Growth Investor. Several companies raised their distributions over the past week. Find out which ones in this post.

Canadian Discount Brokerage Review and Comparison for TFSA and RRSP posted at Financial Highway. A look at Canadian Discount Brokers.

Possible Scenario – A Long Bear Market posted at My Wealth Builder. This blogger thinks we might be in a range bound market for the next one to three years.

Royal Orchid: Stock Analysis for Long Term Investment posted at TIPBlog.in. “The dividend rupees and dividend yield appeared very attractive. But there are lots of gaps to make this dividend on firm footing. As I have said on many occasions on this blog, dividend investing is not about current yield. It is about what future yield you can get.”

PEG Ratio posted at OneMint. Price Earning Growth Ratio takes the concept of Price / Earning Ratio (P/E Ratio) and adds in the element of Growth in it. The P/E Ratio is calculated by dividing Price of the Share with its Earning Per Share.

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That concludes this edition of the Festival of Stocks. Be sure an leave comments as you visit each of the blogs that participated in this week’s Festival of Stocks. They’ll appreciate knowing folks are reading their articles.

Next week’s Festival of Stocks will be hosted at Modern Graham. Submit your stock related blog article to the next edition of Festival of Stocks using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our Festival of Stocks index page for those of you interested in reviewing the archives.

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