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. [...]
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 that I have [...]
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, and General [...]
Tracking Your Dividend Income
For those of you long-standing dividend investors you probably have a method to track the growth in your dividend income. However, for those of you who may be new to dividend investing or perhaps have a number of dividend stocks but have never set up a method to track this income then this post may [...]
My 5 Steps to Choosing the Right ETF
As an investor who uses index funds as the core of my portfolio (supplemented with dividend growth stocks), I came to the realization a long time ago that not all ETFs are created equal and some were more appropriate for my portfolios than others were. Although originally I never went into the process of selecting [...]
