Best US Dividend Stocks For 2012
For the beginning of the year, I did some research on a lot of stocks and wrote the Best Dividend Stocks for 2012 eBook (you can download it for free here). This eBook includes 29 stocks (20 US and 9 Canadian) that have been showing very solid dividend metrics. When I did [...]
How I Beat The Market With My Dividend Trades
To be completely honest with you, I have been interested in dividend investing for a while but only switched my portfolio towards this approach back in January 2011. Why did I take so long? Simply because I had a lot of success by trading more aggressively in the past. From 2003 to 2006, I made [...]
How To Build A Solid Dividend Retirement Portfolio
I guess it’s normal as I am still relatively young (29), but usually talk about dividend growth portfolios and rarely about building a retirement portfolio. What is the difference between a dividend growth portfolio and a retirement dividend portfolio? It could summarized in 2 statements: Portfolio Value Stability Income Stability From my experience in [...]
Think About The Future: Who Can Increase Their Dividend?
Receiving monthly dividends from your portfolio is always appreciated. What is even better, is to pick stocks that have the greatest potential to increase their dividend in the upcoming years. What I really like about investing is that it’s like a continuing game of chess. The problem is that you are dicing with multiple players [...]
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 [...]
