Why These Men Are After Your Best Blue-Chip Dividend Payers

Ultra-wealthy activist investors like Carl Icahn and Nelson Peltz are (in)famous for spending millions - often billions - on huge chunks of stock in attempts to upend corporate boards. It's a move Oliver Stone's legendary "two-bit pirate and greenmailer" character, Gordon Gekko, called "getting into a company at a 45-degree angle." They aim to grab seats on the board and use that powerful influence to break up and kill companies, or fix what they see as costly waste, or to steer corporate governance in a different, potentially more profitable, direction. Still, investors (maybe with Gordon Gekko foremost on their minds) can panic when they spot activist investors circling shareholder meetings. It causes them to unload stocks - and play right into the activists' hands. What's more, as we first noted in 2015, these players are now setting their sights on old, established American companies - income stocks your grandparents owned - that aren't even close to failing, like General Electric Co. Gerri Willis, of FOX Business Network's "Making Money," wanted to know what, if anything, investors have to be afraid of, especially now that it's come to light Trian Partners' Nelson Peltz is aggressively seeking a seat on the board of Procter & Gamble Co. PG is a widely owned, $227 billion, 180-year-old "dividend king" that's hiked its payout for more than 50 straight years. She asked our Technical Trading Specialist, D.R. Barton, Jr., what Peltz and other activist investors might really be up to coming after these popular, stable stocks. D.R. said it's critical investors do this when Wall Street's wealthiest players target their best shares... Tags: Stocks To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2017 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post Why These Men Are After Your Best Blue-Chip Dividend Payers appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .