Chuck Saletta

The risks from the potential sequester have knocked its stock down to where it's worth owning.

Or is it luck?

The choice isn't always obvious.

It's a company that can help you breathe easier -- literally.

If it squawks like a duck...

With a decent balance sheet, reasonable prospects, and enough confidence to raise its dividend 10% in spite of facing a huge new tax, this medical devices giant deserves a place in this real-money portfolio.

Benjamin Graham's timeless lessons on the benefits of buying with a margin of safety still hold true today.

Until there's a way to tell the future perfectly, you'll have to manage investing risks while searching for the ultimate rewards available from compounding dividends.

An industry leader with a strong dividend history and a solid balance sheet, available at a decent valuation.

A two-for-one special that, together, builds a coast-to-coast transportation network.

It's trading above what one real money investor is willing to pay.

The stronger your savings and investment plan, the sooner you can leave your "it pays the bills" job for one you love.

The stronger your savings and investment plan, the sooner you can leave your "it pays the bills" job for one you love.

Decent valuation, decent dividend, and a broad spectrum of products that go well beyond the simple calculators of yore.

World famous chef and WWII spy Julia Child's famous line "everything in moderation... including moderation" holds true for investors as well as cooks.

Eight decades of continuous dividends and 37 years of dividend growth along with a decent valuation and low debt make this drugstore a healthy financial choice.

It's the general partner of one of North America's largest energy "toll booth" operators, and the overall company has a great history of paying and raising dividends.

They deliver solid and generally rising dividends as well as the packages that make them famous.

A player in a classic "widows and orphans"-type industry with a reasonable valuation and growing dividend.

Just in time for Christmas, Santa brings a bargain price on a world-class toy maker that carries with it a decent dividend, too.