121. September 2024 Mailbag

Should you put more cash in a high-yield CD with interest rates falling? Do share buybacks help drive future dividend growth? How should you approach investing in materials stocks? These are just a few of the questions Jeff and Jason give their answers to on this week's episode, our monthly mailbag for September! Do you have questions you'd like us to answer on a future episode? Send them to us using our social media accounts or email address! Companies mentioned: BIPC, DVN, MMM, NVR, OXY, PSX, SBUX, TXN, WBA ***************************************** Subscribe to our portfolio on Savvy Trader at: https://savvytrader.com/investingunscripted/investing-unscripted-portfolio?s=MjM0NDM6NTQ1OA== ***************************************** Email: [email protected] Twitter: @InvestingPod Check out our YouTube channel for more content: https://www.youtube.com/@InvestingUnscripted ****************************************** To get 15% off any paid plan at finchat.io, visit https://finchat.io/unscripted ****************************************** Investing Unscripted is brought to you by Public.com* Visit https://public.com/investingunscripted *A Bond Account is a self-directed brokerage account with Public Investing, member FINRA/SIPC. Deposits into this account are used to purchase 10 investment-grade and high-yield bonds. The [6.9%] yield is the average annualized yield to maturity (YTM) across all ten bonds in the Bond Account, before fees, as of [8/28/2024]. A bond’s yield is a function of its market price, which can fluctuate; therefore a bond’s YTM is “locked in” when the bond is purchased. Your yield at time of purchase may be different from the yield shown here. The “locked in” YTM is not guaranteed; you may receive less than the YTM of the bonds in the Bond Account if you sell any of the bonds before maturity, or if the issuer calls or defaults on the bond. Public Investing charges a markup on each bond trade. See our Fee Schedule at https://public.com/disclosures/fee-schedule. Bond Accounts are not recommendations of individual bonds or default allocations. The bonds in the Bond Account have not been selected based on your needs or risk profile. You should evaluate each bond before investing in a Bond Account. The bonds in your Bond Account will not be rebalanced and allocations will not be updated, except for Corporate Actions. Fractional Bonds also carry additional risks including that they are only available on Public and cannot be transferred to other brokerages. Read more about the risks associated with fixed income (https://public.com/disclosures/fixed-income-disclosure) and fractional bonds (https://public.com/disclosures/apex-fractional-bond-disclosure). See Bond Account Disclosures (https://public.com/disclosures/bond-account) to learn more. ***************************************** Find the 2024 Portfolio Contest here: https://tinyurl.com/2024contest Find the 2023 Portfolio Contest here: https://tinyurl.com/Smatterfolio2023