BCE – A Sell Gone Way Bad
If you have been following my blog for some time now, you will know that I do not sell stocks very often. The stocks I tend to buy, the real blue chip, dividend increasing type of companies never give me much reason to sell. This has worked in my favor more often than not. However, [...]
Fewer Firms Offering Dividend Payouts
An article posted over at the WSJ presented this chart that highlights the declining payout ratio that companies have been historically paying to investors. However, the article the goes on to elaborate that companies are missing the boat as the number of baby-boomers who will require income from their portfolio gets stronger year after year, [...]
Reaching for Yield Is Not a Good Strategy
I often get asked why some of the holdings in my portfolio have such low dividend yields. If I am such a proponent of dividend investing, why then am I not sporting a 5 to 6% average dividend yield in my portfolio. Rather than struggle to frame a response in my own words, I thought [...]
Some Recent Dividend Transactions for The Dividend Guy
It has been awhile since I have written about any of my own personal transactions in my dividend paying investment account. Things have been pretty much on cruise control for me as I have not bought or sold anything for some time. However, as per the coolest thing about dividends, the money has continued to [...]
Sometime Things Just Don’t Go as Planned
I have another passion other than dividend stocks (and my family of course!) – it is running and training for races. On another blog I write, The Running Guy, I just had to write a post about how I have dropped out of training and running in an upcoming marathon. Things were just not going [...]
Buying In Thirds – Slowly Building a Position
There is a philosophy in the investing world that states that an investor should not throw all his or her money at a stock they like at one time, but rather buy into a position over a certain period of time. The most common approach seems to by buying in thirds (i.e. buying a stock [...]
When Dividend Stocks Aren’t Right For You
Alright, you may wonder why a guy writing about dividend investing and buying companies that consistently increase their dividend payout has a post outlining the detriments of dividend-based strategy. I have to admit it was not easy. I scoured the web for reasons not to use a dividend-based strategy. At the end of the day, [...]
