The First Dividend Stock I Ever Bought …

Last week, one of our country’s most storied corporations officially turned 100. And it just so happens to also be the firm that started my love affair with both the stock market and dividend payments. The company? International Business Machines, or IBM as it’s more commonly known. Today, I want to tell you a little bit more about this interesting corporation … my personal history investing in it … and what important lessons we can learn from IBM right now. From Cash Registers to Supercomputers … What we now know as International Business Machines was once called the Computing-Tabulating-Recording company. And as the name suggests, the company’s earliest products were calculators, cash registers, and other similar devices. Eventually, . . . → Read More: The First Dividend Stock I Ever Bought …