One Guy’s Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing

As I have said before, an important component of portfolio management is to ensure you are always learning and adjusting your strategy to identified best practices. I am not talking about changing your strategy whole-hog when the whim strikes you. I am talking about refinements to your strategy that will make your portfolio stronger and [...]

I use an investment code as a tool to help me manage my portfolio. It is something that I recommend all investors do as it helps manage emotions. It is much harder to make an emotional decision if you have certain rules of portfolio management that you are committed to following. For this blog, I [...]

This is the last post in a series of posts that discussed my dividend investing process, which started at my investment principles and lead us here, to a view to my portfolio. Given that this post in the series happens to come at the end of the month, when I regularly present my asset allocation [...]

Wow, we are getting to the end in series of posts titled, The Dividend Guy Investment Process. Today’s post is going to talk about something that I am very passionate about – reinvesting dividends! When an investor receives dividends from a dividend stock, they have two choices. The first is to take the dividends as [...]

If you are a do-it-yourself investor who buys individual stocks (i.e. dividend stocks), as many of my readers are, then we are slaves to our investment returns. But how do we know how we are performing? If we earned 12% last year, that may seem like a pretty good return. However, if the overall market [...]

Valuation of a company is a subjective and difficult thing to do. That is why I think it is important for individual investors to develop a system using a couple of different valuation metrics to gauge if a stock is show some value or if it is overpriced. My numbers will differ from your numbers. [...]

In the last post I started to discuss my approach to dividend investment analysis. The first place I look is revenue, and more importantly earnings per share. The next things I look at during my analysis include a number of ratios, return on equity, and dividend growth. I will present the format I use on [...]