Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 274 on May 9th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am the author of 7 investment books. My seventh investment book, Achieving Financial Independence Safely - 200 NYSE Stocks Analyzed and Scored&quot; became available January 3rd on Amazon. You can easily find it by searching in Amazon or Google for &quot;Ian Duncan MacDonald books&quot;. For more information on all my books, stock scoring software and podcasts go to www.informus.ca In this weeks episode I explain why the secret to achieving financial independence is learning how to measure the degree of risk in stocks so you can choose those with the greatest numerical chance to constantly grow your portfolio&#x27;s share price annually by 10% while enjoying a dividend yield percent exceeding 6%. This objective immediately rules out investing in AI stocks like Nvidia, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Apple and Advanced Micro Devices. The purpose of a company is to make a profit not to provide a gambling platform for speculators trying to time when shares will dramatically climb so they can quickly sell them at a huge profit and then repeat this game over and over again for the rest of their lives - or until all their investment money is lost. IAN 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

Podcast 274 - WHY I WILL NOT BE INVESTING IN NVIDIA  AND OTHER AI STOCKS

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Greetings to investors all around the world. Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's podcast number 274 recorded on May 9th of 2026. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald. I am the author of seven investment books. My latest book delivered in January was

Achieving Financial Independence Safely. 200 New York Stock Exchange stocks analyzed and scored. For those trading in Canadian stocks, the prior book was Canadian High Dividend Investing. 215 scored stocks. To learn more about how you can benefit from my investment books, visit my website

www.informus.ca or visit amazon.com's website and do a search for Ian Duncan MacDonald books. At Amazon, you can find sample chapters and reviews by investors who have benefited from the books. Soon, I will be releasing a new booklet called Decision Scoring.

That shows how to easily reduce decisions down to mathematical evaluations. In reading and investment industry advice, I am often left with the impression that investors are taught to view publicly traded companies as inanimate blocks of wood that are swept to and fro by uncontrollable economics.

They are told that the financial strength of a stock. They are told that the financial strength of a stock rests solely in the stock's share price. As well, to acquire great wealth quickly, they must predict which stocks will rise highest and fastest.

This is often accompanied by the advice that they must bet every penny they have on the stock which is bound to be a winner. Companies whose shares are being traded are not blocks of wood.

I have been an executive in public companies with shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange. While I was not on the board of directors of the company, I did have responsibilities for controlling the revenues and expenses of my operation.

It was made very clear to me that I was being paid to do was to reach my operations profit objectives. The logical or perhaps illogical trading of our stock was controlled by hundreds of thousands of stockholders that we never had direct contact with.

The stockholders, and for that matter, even the directors of the company had limited understanding of how all the pieces in the company came together and profits were made.

Although I had stock options that would have richly rewarded me if the company's share price increased over 12 months, share prices never entered the strategic thinking of me or my fellow executives. We were focused on finding ways to improve our product offerings so we could maintain and grow our market share.

There was always the pressure that we were competing with other companies. They too would only grow and prosper if they succeeded in taking sales away from us. Every month, we'd be measured on our customer gain or loss. We were expected to exceed our monthly revenue budgets while maintaining our normal expense ratios.

If a few months went by and the revenue figures were not being met, then we knew we ...

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Podcast 274 - WHY I WILL NOT BE INVESTING IN NVIDIA AND OTHER AI STOCKS

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Built for investment professionals

Every day you wait, your competitors are findingedge in conversations you're not hearing.

Every day you wait, your competitors are finding
edge in conversations you're not hearing.