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John Gardner
Founder & Principal,
Blackhawk Wealth Advisors
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John Gardner is the founder and principal of Blackhawk Wealth Advisors (BWA). In his 37 years as an investment advisor, Mr. Gardner has gained valuable investment insight, experience, and knowledge through working with leading Wall Street wealth management companies before starting BWA. As both a Certified Financial Planner (CFPand a Certified Portolio Manager (CPM), he seeks to ensure client's investment portfolios are consistent with their overall estate plan.
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Verizon Communications (VZ) is a telecom giant with a stock that often attracts income-oriented investors, thanks to its dividend. Going back 10 years, the company’s stock has given investors a 22.2% raise, as its dividend increased from $2.14 per share per year in 2014 to $2.64 in 2023, comments John Gardner, founder and principal of Blackhawk Wealth Advisors’ Market Insights.
John Gardner
TELECOM
Tickers: VZ
Scrambling to support remote work and tap cloud-computing resources during the coronavirus lockdown, companies depended on IT departments to come to the rescue. The rescue dog was Datadog (DDOG). Companies benefited then, and are now, by relying on Datadog's tools to monitor software applications and networks, writes John Gardner, founder and principal of Blackhawk Wealth Advisors’ Market Insights.
John Gardner
TECHNOLOGY
Tickers: DDOG
In our hectic and often hard to comprehend world, it is very easy to lose perspective. You may agree it is sometimes difficult to see the big picture. The media often doesn't help with this, but unfortunately instead encourages us to see things in a most negative light. But my indicators show the market is in a confirmed uptrend, writes John Gardner, founder and principal of Blackhawk Wealth Advisors’ Market Insights.
John Gardner
MARKETS
Investors were once convinced that nothing could derail this market’s advance. Then, as if on cue with the “seasonal stock market calendar”, the S&P 1500 got hit by August and September. The S&P 1500 has declined more than 6% through last week from the end of July, but stock market history points to better days ahead, explains John Gardner, founder and principal of Blackhawk Wealth Advisors’ Market Insights.
John Gardner
MARKETS