One Guy’s Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing

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 [...]

I am Canadian. I wear touques, say exuse me to everything and thank people for thanking me. I also buy Canadian dividend stocks. Granted, there are not as many Canadian dividend growth stocks as there are in the U.S. but they are out there. [ad#tdg-embedded] Why I Own Canadian Dividend Stock As I said, I [...]

It is a common understanding among dividend investors that high yield stocks typically have meant lower capital gains than lower dividend yield stocks. The thinking is that very high yields signal trouble with a company that ultimately leads to lower stock returns. A recent American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) article from May 2009 (subscriber [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]