What is My Dividend Strategy
Recently Dividend Growth Investor wrote a post about three different dividend strategies. To quickly summarize, they are: 1. High yield stocks with low to no dividend growth 2. Low yielding stocks with a high dividend growth rate 3. Average yield and an average dividend growth The question that any investor would obviously ask right at [...]
A Dividend Increase is Not a Reason to Buy a Stock
There are many common misconceptions about dividend investing. For example, all dividend paying stocks are stable companies. Or, a dividend from a stock will more than offset any losses you receive in share price over the long term. However, there is one that I find most persistent in both new and experienced dividend investors. It [...]
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 [...]
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 an [...]
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 [...]
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 not to [...]
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 certain warning [...]
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 few players. [...]
