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Tim Melvin

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About Tim Melvin

Tim Melvin is a veteran value investor, money manager and writer specializing in financial stocks, high-dividend stocks, and income investing strategies. With 27+ years in financial services, Tim identifies undervalued opportunities in value stocks across energy, banking, and dividend-focused sectors. He has also written and lectured extensively on the markets with his work appearing on RealMoney.Com, DailySpecualtion.Com as well as several print publication including Active Trader and the Wall Street Digest. Mr. Melvin has also collaborated on several investment books published in the Wiley Little Book Series of Investment Books.

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Alpha Buying: 5 Stocks Worth Stealing From Hawk Ridge

Alpha Buying: 5 Stocks Worth Stealing From Hawk Ridge

There is no shortage of investment managers willing to tell you they are fundamental investors doing deep research in search of mispriced securities. The phrase has become so common that it has almost lost its

Under the Radar: The AI Trade Is Becoming an Energy Trade

Under the Radar: The AI Trade Is Becoming an Energy Trade

There is an old investing rule that has served me pretty well over the years. When everybody is rushing toward the same gold mine, spend some time looking at the people selling the picks, shovels, and

Easy Income Portfolio: August 2026 Edition

Easy Income Portfolio: August 2026 Edition

The Easy Income portfolio is doing exactly what we built it to do. It is collecting a substantial amount of cash from a diversified group of investments that do not all depend on the same economic outcome, the same

Perfect Stocks Portfolio: August 2026 Edition

Perfect Stocks Portfolio: August 2026 Edition

The past month has offered investors a useful reminder that financial markets rarely move in lockstep with the headlines. The geopolitical backdrop has become more difficult, trade policy remains unsettled, energy

Alpha Buying: 5 Energy Stocks the Smart Money Is Buying

Alpha Buying: 5 Energy Stocks the Smart Money Is Buying

Every quarter, I go through 13F filings looking for something that apparently has become deeply unfashionable in modern investing. Good ideas. Not trading systems. Not penny-stock miracles. Not the newest

Under the Radar: Europe’s Growth Story Is Hiding Beneath the Index

Under the Radar: Europe’s Growth Story Is Hiding Beneath the Index

Every summer, some big shop sends its top brass on a European road trip. They come back and write up a memo full of purple charts telling you what the locals already knew. This year it was KKR’s turn. Henry McVey

5 Great Stocks This $9.7 Billion Value Fund Just Bought

5 Great Stocks This $9.7 Billion Value Fund Just Bought

Every three months, I go through an exercise that apparently strikes a large portion of the investing public as hopelessly old fashioned. I look at what successful investors are actually buying. I know. Crazy

Under the Radar: The Hidden Winners of the Critical Minerals Boom

Under the Radar: The Hidden Winners of the Critical Minerals Boom

Wall Street loves a good mining story. Give the crowd an exotic metal, a remote deposit, a heroic demand forecast, and a colorful presentation showing what the mine might produce in 2034, and suddenly everyone with a

3 Stocks That Prove You Can Have Both Growth and Income

3 Stocks That Prove You Can Have Both Growth and Income

Wall Street has always insisted that investors must choose sides. You can own growth stocks, which supposedly offer exciting capital gains but little current income. You can own dividend stocks, which provide income

Alpha Buying: Following One of Real Estate's Smartest Investors

Alpha Buying: Following One of Real Estate's Smartest Investors

One of the great advantages individual investors have is that large institutional money managers must eventually show us at least part of what they are doing. They don’t call before buying. They don’t announce

5 Growth Stocks That Pass Peter Lynch's Favorite Test

5 Growth Stocks That Pass Peter Lynch's Favorite Test

Wall Street loves to make stock selection sound like a combination of advanced calculus, artificial intelligence and whispered conversations with corporate executives in expensive restaurants. It does not have to be

Under the Radar: 3 Boring Small Caps That Could Return 10x

Under the Radar: 3 Boring Small Caps That Could Return 10x

Investors spend an enormous amount of time searching for the next stock that can rise 10 times in value. They study disruptive technologies, enormous addressable markets, charismatic founders, and whatever investment

Alpha Buying: 3 Cheap Stocks Insiders Are Buying With Their Own Money

Alpha Buying: 3 Cheap Stocks Insiders Are Buying With Their Own Money

Insider buying is one of the most useful signals available to individual investors, but it is also frequently misunderstood. An executive buying a few thousand shares does not automatically make a stock attractive.

Real Assets Are Beating Tech Right Now. Here's the Proof.

Real Assets Are Beating Tech Right Now. Here's the Proof.

Wall Street economists can spend all day debating what the Federal Reserve might do, whether inflation is really defeated, and whether the economy is heading toward a soft landing, a hard landing, or some newly invented

Under the Radar: 5 Insurance Stocks That Could Get Bought Out for a Premium

Under the Radar: 5 Insurance Stocks That Could Get Bought Out for a Premium

Merger activity in the property and casualty insurance industry is beginning to get interesting. This is not one of those Wall Street fairy tales where every small company with a cheap stock price is suddenly

Alpha Buying: When a CEO Spends $5 Million on His Own Stock, Pay Attention

Alpha Buying: When a CEO Spends $5 Million on His Own Stock, Pay Attention

Corporate executives say optimistic things about their companies every day. They appear on earnings calls, investor presentations and financial television programs to explain why the latest disappointing quarter is

5 Stocks to Buy Before the Fed's Next Move

5 Stocks to Buy Before the Fed's Next Move

Every large investment firm publishes an outlook. Most are beautifully designed collections of economic forecasts, carefully hedged predictions and charts explaining why the firm’s existing positions are almost

Alpha Buying: The Real Moats AI Can't Replace

Alpha Buying: The Real Moats AI Can't Replace

Every ballplayer knows the sinking feeling of watching a routine grounder skip through the infield. That is exactly what software investors have experienced over the past year, watching names like Adobe, Salesforce, and

Perfect Stocks Portfolio: July 2026 Edition

Perfect Stocks Portfolio: July 2026 Edition

Perfect Stocks in a Very Imperfect World The last month has been another reminder that the world does not exist for the convenience of economists, market strategists, television personalities, or internet

Easy Income Portfolio: July 2026 Edition

Easy Income Portfolio: July 2026 Edition

Income Is Still Available, but Selectivity Matters More Than Ever The financial markets continue to provide plenty of noise, drama and breathless predictions, which is fortunate for the financial media because calm