All Dividend Stocks Have Their Limitations – Do You Know What They Are?
Each and every one of the dividend stocks in your portfolio can reek havoc on your portfolio. The trick is figuring out what the limitations are and how to overcome them.
Three Limitations
1. All of a sudden they can stop paying dividends
Even a stock with an extremely long history of paying, and even increasing [...]
7 Warning Signs You Need to Repair Your Portfolio
Does this sound familiar? The stock market has been going up significantly since the beginning of the year but your portfolio is down. That is one clear warning sign that it is time to do some work on your portfolio before things get even worse.
There are a number of additional warnings signs that [...]
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Dividend Stocks
“After a meal there’s nothing like a good cigar”
– Blondie from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Wikiquote
Ok, so that quote has nothing to do with investing, but you can just picture Eastwood saying it. Like everything in life, there are good things, bad things, and ugly things. The same can be [...]
A Dividend Yield Screen with High Growth
I like to use my copy of the Stock Investor Pro from AAII to identify potential dividend investments. Recently I was using the software to screen for dividend stocks with a relatively high yield while providing strong growth at the same time. This can often be an investment-oxymoron as higher dividend stocks tend [...]
Dividend Safety and Warnings
As dividend investors, we need to be constantly on the lookout for ways to reduce the risk in our portfolios. Even with relatively stable and fundamentally sound dividend stocks, there is work to do to determine how safe a that dividend growth company might be. In other words, we need to watch for [...]
The Best Dividend Stocks In The World
(This post was written by Dividends4Life on his blog, Dividends Value. I have learned a lot from D4L and thank him for his passion for dividend investing.) I couldn’t begin to estimate how many different stocks are traded around the world on the various exchanges. Like everything else, there are many participants, but [...]
Dividend Stocks in My Portfolio that Have Raised Dividends
It is always fun to watch for the individual dividend stock holdings that have recently increased their dividends. To me, this really means two things. First, it means that the company is strong as it has been able to raise the amount of cash it pays out to investors. Second, it means [...]
Dividend Income Lessons I Have Learned
One of the reasons I love the investment process so much is because every time I turn around I realize that I have learned something new. Just when you think you have “the game” down, something comes along and knocks you on your ass. Take those dividend cuts by Bank of America, Citigroup, [...]
