Stealth Wealth

The following are financial highlights for the trailing twelve months (ttm). Profit margin is at 45.18%, which is pretty good, but I would like to reach 50%. To achieve this I'll need to work on some cost cutting measures for next year. I'm going to keep up with ROA, but I'm not using the correct formula which is Net Income divided by Assets. When I use the correct ...

I got some big help this month from my Christmas bonus :D  Also I got an extra $227 in realized gains from the sale of my holdings in Middlby.  Next month I'm looking to have over $10 in dividends from my money market fund. My net worth for the month went up 6.30% thanks to the 2 reasons mentioned in the first sentence of this post.  I was able ...

Over the past few weeks I've felt like I need to liquidate some of my holdings and have some more cash for now.  I've struggled trying to figure which of company I wanted to pull the trigger on and let go. Middleby - this was my largest gainer... well only gainer with over 22% gain in 6 months.  It was my hardest to let go because this is the ...

Here is a financial checklist I found by Kiplinger.com I thought you might find helpful. Most are common sense, but it's always good to be reminded of things. 1) Identify Your Goals 2) Get out of Debt -Pay off everything by the time your 30 3) Prepare for an emergency -Get auto, health, life, and homeowners insurance -Have a cash reserve of at least $1,000 -Try to create the habit of saving at least ...

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Monday I got an e-mail from Sharebuilder telling me that they were bought out by ING Direct. I don't think its a bad thing as long as things don't change because I haven't had a problem with Sharebuilder so far in the over 2 years I've been with them. I actually hope that my sharebuilder actually make it easier to get an ING account if I ...

When I first started this blog I did a post on tipping and how out of hand it has become in todays society. Unfortunately I accidently deleted that post when making changes to my blog during the summer. So I'll restate some of my feelings on tipping again with a video on tipping from The Early Show. I think that tipping is becoming too expected by everyone ...

Today I received my paycheck a week early along with a $750 Christmas bonus (more like $500 after taxes were taken out).  It's good to get the money early for shopping, but now I don't get paid for 3 weeks.  It's just psychological because I'm getting next weeks paycheck early, but 3 weeks seems like a long time.  Oh well... I haven't wrote much on the site because I ...

In October I started having to pay some on my hospital bills. I know most of you are tired of hearing me talk about my hospital bills so I won't mention them too much. Net Income for the month was $1,044.94, this number is somewhat inflated due to the fact that I only paid $24 on my credit card. I have 0% interest so I ...

Here is what my portfolio consist of as of right this moment. I lost 0.001% somewhere :P