2 Things Investors Don’t Want in a Dividend Stock (Plus 1 Controversial One)
There is a lot of information on the web that covers how to select stocks, even dividend stocks. In this post I am going to take the negative angle and present what I feel to be three things that I, as a dividend investor, do not want to see in a dividend stock. In my [...]
One Dividend Rule that Can Help Your Investing Performance
If you invest in individual dividend growth stocks, then you know that there are inherent risks in buying individual stocks. That is why I advocate a basic core portfolio of index funds before venturing into individual stocks. With this structure in place, you drastically reduce the individual stock risk you take on by buying dividend [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stock Screens are not Buy Screens
Unless you are a purely mechanical investor, a la the Magic Formula, then stock screens should not be used as buy screens. Recently I was sent an email by an individual who asked what screen I used to buy my stocks. With his permission, here is the main part of that email: …As a new [...]
The Harry Domash Stock Analysis Process
I have recently been reading a book called, “Fire Your Stock Analyst: Analyzing Stocks On Your Own” as I am always looking to improve my own stock analysis process. This book offers a clear process to stock analysis that I thought I would outline here on The Dividend Guy. In fact, Domash provides two processes [...]
Returns of Growth Versus Value Stocks
In a recent post I did on my updated asset allocation, I showed that I added some value asset targets. I currently have both growth and value stocks in my dividend portfolio, however I felt that I needed to have a target that would provide the best diversification and something that I could track. In [...]
