Dividend Guy Reader’s Favorite Dividend Stocks
Time to have a little fun and get to know one another a little better – not specifically but in generalities as it relates to what dividend stocks we all own. I would really like to get an idea of what readers of this blog hold in terms of dividend paying investments. I have posted [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance #16 is Up
Canadian Capitalist has been the kind host of this weeks Carnival of Personal Finance. Many other writers of personal finance blogs, including myself, are posted here. I really liked Fiscal Time’s post on when to sell. A good discussion on this tough topic. Technorati : Carnival of Personal Finance, Dividends, finance, stocks
Dividend Paying Sin Stocks – Follow Up
As a follow up to this post, there has been some developments with tobacco companies up here in the Great White North. It appears that the British Columbia government is going to sue Rothmans in order to recover billions of dollars in health-case costs. These types of lawsuits are a definite risk of investing in [...]
Example of a Good Buying Opportunity?
I read this article in the paper on the weekend and it struck me as one of those potentially good buying opportunities that come about every once in awhile: Teachers’ Plan Sells Off Nexen CALGARY — The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is selling off 7.5 million of its shares in oil and gas company Nexen [...]
My Dumbest Investment
Any investor, if they have been investing long enough, has made at least one dumb investment. I have made a few, that is for sure. The one that sticks out in my mine is when I purchased a small forestry micro-cap stock out of Vancouver that I heard a stock analyst talk about on a [...]
When to Sell a Dividend Paying Investment
I hate to sell stocks that I own. Why? One of two reasons: 1. I probably screwed up in my analysis of the company and made a dumb decision to buy in the first place;or2. Something has happened to the company that is totally beyond my control and I am powerless (e.g. the company has [...]
When Is a Yield Too High?
Reaching for yield is very tempting. The cash flow that I can receive as a result of a good yield is very substantial. However, there are a few things that I try to keep in mind when choosing a high-yielding stock: 1. Has the yield shot up in the past month or so or has [...]
