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Hit the road, you absolute loser. While I admit there is something tragically accurate about the idea of money interfering with many aspects of modern life, a guy telling me about the traps of greed while shouting from the top of a pile of money is a bit hard to hear properly Then again, I probably should be impressed he pulled himself to the top of that pile using nothing but his bootstraps and a large pile of money.

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Receive a free business plan guide! What Students Learn What are stocks, and the stock market How to read the stock ticker Strategies for investing such as buy low sell high, and diversification Suggested Time Preview and Episode Viewing: 45 minutes Activity 1: 30 minutes in class then self-assessment over one month Activity 2: 20 minutes. Clips for this Lesson. Whats Up with the Stock Market? Have you ever tried to read the financial pages in the newspaper or understand the bottom of the TV screen financial ticker?

How to Make a Million Bucks It is possible! If you start early and save consistently, you'll take advantage of the power of compound interest. You can make a million by working hard, spending less than you earn, and by saving, Coke, in concert with its bottlers, has the best distribution system in the world.

Since bottlers do all the heavy lifting, this business earns a very high return on capital. Coke is one of the most beloved brands in the world unless you are a Pepsi person. This company has experienced incredible growth over the last century. However, unless Coke gets penguins at the South Pole to consume its fine bubbly, it has run out of new markets to sell into. This is exactly what has happened to Coke since — its revenues and earnings have stagnated.

If you look at its financials, only two things have grown: its dividend due to an increased dividend payout and its debt — which has tripled. Coke is a high-quality company — it can raise prices along with inflation on its namesake product, which is about half of its revenue. It may struggle to do this on other more commoditized parts of its product portfolio, but nobody questions whether Coca Cola will be around in ten or twenty years.

Most importantly, investors are convinced Coke will continue to manufacture its 2. They are so focused on the shiny object — the dividend — that they are ignoring how much they are paying for this seemingly endless income stream. Market will let you have Coke today at 30 times earnings.

I will stick with getting my 2. Just change the sequence of your analysis. Here is what we do at IMA in dividend portfolios : We identify the universe of stocks in the US and other countries that pay stable dividends, but only the ones that are both high-quality and undervalued end up going into the portfolio.

Coke is a lightweight on the crazy spectrum. The degree of crazy will increase with each further example, culminating with smelly, hot air, I promise. The next one is Tesla. I even wrote a series of essays that I turned into a small book you can get it here.

I love my Model 3. I like a lot of things about the company. The stock is a very different matter. An important lesson that many tech investors learned after the bursting of the Dotcom 1. The connecting tissue between the two is valuation. The price you pay determines your future return. The price did not matter when valuations were rising. Tesla arguably has the best EV on the market. Customers love its products.