Calls expired this weekend and three stocks that I have profiled quite often in this blog were not taken away.   You know that about 75% of calls expire without the stock being taken away.   This is a gift for income investors.




Three stocks deserve another look; they are Intel symbol, INTC; Microsoft symbol MSFT; and Gaslog symbol GLOG.  

These three stocks and their covered calls are excellent examples of how to work this game.  Keep selling calls higher and higher.   I will use today's intra day price for the cost basis but if you bought, as I have, as lower prices your return is even better than displayed in the tables below.

INTC - November $37 call expired







MSFT - November $49 call expired












GLOG - November $22.50 expired




Good Income Investing.   TheMoneyMadam

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Packaging Company of America, PKG delivers income

Packing Company of America, symbol PKG, has delivered for me.  But the price appreciation makes their dividend yield of just under 2.25% low enough to risk losing PKG to a call.

PKG’s earnings are $5.32 with a dividend payout of $1.60 for a 2.19% yield

Their next ex dividend date should be about December, 2014 and I will try for a January $75 call so that I pocket both the dividend and the call premium.

The Covered Call Calculation is presented in the table below.

TheMoneyMadam

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Qualcomm a quick trick for income QCOM

Buying QCOM today for a quick income trick.   If you own before November 26, you will receive their most recent quarterly dividend of $.42 in December.    Sell a December $70 call for about $1.50 and your income totals $1.92.  Based on today’s price of $68.75 and your immediate total yield is 2.79%. 

TheMoneyMadam

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