Why 2008 Was An Awesome Year for Dividend Investors
As I reflect back on 2008, I am caught by the overwhelming feeling that the year was actually a very good thing for dividend investors. It is easy to think that it was a terrible year for our kind! Both Bank of America and Citigroup – long standing dividend payers with wonderful dividend increases year [...]
Tracking My Portfolio Income
The best thing about being a dividend growth investor is watching your dividend income grow over time. As I have written about time and time again, the power of a dividend growth portfolio is the compounded growth that an investor receives . As new dividends come into the account from the companies paying dividends, those [...]
Sold Some Dividend Cut Stocks
In a recent post, I wrote about how I had altered my investing code to reflect that I would now be selling dividend stocks soon after a dividend cut. This is quite a departure for me as I traditionally had not sold stocks very often. However, given my primary objective to generate a reliable and [...]
My Main Investment Objective: To Generate a Reliable, Growing Stream of Income from Stocks
(This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net) Wow, these markets are in no way fun! I don’t know about you, but I am sick of the volatility, the fear that we are seeing in the market, and the relentless pontification of the newspapers and media companies covering this like it is the end of the [...]
Dividend Investing Overview via Video
Josh Peters is the author of the Morningstar newsletter DividendInvestor and most recently the author of the great dividend book The Ultimate Dividend Playbook. As I was digging around Monringstar the other day I came across a pretty good video from him that explains the dividend investment process and some things that are important for [...]
Where to Find Dividend Growth Rates
On this blog, and other dividend investing blogs, we talk a lot about the dividend growth rate of the various companies we track. As part of good dividend analysis determining what the dividend growth rate has been is important, primarily because we need to see if the growth rate is accelerating or slowing. I have [...]
Can You Predict Dividend Payments into the Future?
I believe you can take a stab at it, but it is not something you should do to make your investment decision on. If you do it, it should only be for interest sake and because you are the kind of person who likes to mess around with analyzing your investment holdings (like me!). That [...]
A Review of My Yearly Dividend Income
Investing in stocks that continually increase their dividends has the dramatic effect of consistently giving investors a raise each and every year. I have kept track of my own personal dividend income since really focusing on dividend growth as a strategy in 2005. Shooting forward almost 3 years and my dividend income has gone from [...]
