Send us Fan Mail

Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 282 on July 4th of 2026.

Many investors appear to be impressed by current high trading volumes of some stocks. Some companies trade more than 100,000,000 shares in a day. Surely this must be an indicator that the stock is in great demand and that you could not possibly lose money by investing in such a popular stock. However as you will see in this podcast high share trading values can be misleading You must look at other important indicators of strength like profitability, share prices over a dozen or more years, ever increasing dividend prices, book values and so on.

This week we consider the buying of shares in major airlines. With the rapid acceleration of oil prices this year, because of the Iranian war, it has made travel very expensive. When higher costs are combined with attacks on immigrants, it is little wonder that the travel industry has seen revenues shrink by billions of dollars. No one is going to travel to countries that make them feel unwanted or in danger. Although things appear to be improving it may take years before things are back to where they were in 2025.

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M9P 3R7
Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994
imacd@informus.ca