Comments on: The Four Most Important Metrics When Evaluating Dividend Stocks http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/ One Guy's Journey to Passive Income Through Dividend Investing Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:17:23 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hot Link » Blog Archive » Weekend Reading - Sept 26, 2008 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/comment-page-1/#comment-48973 Hot Link » Blog Archive » Weekend Reading - Sept 26, 2008 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:59:09 +0000 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/#comment-48973 [...] The Dividend Guy Blog gives us The Four Most Important Metrics When Evaluating Dividend Stocks. [...] [...] The Dividend Guy Blog gives us The Four Most Important Metrics When Evaluating Dividend Stocks. [...]

]]> By: The Wallet : Loose Change: 10/6/08 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/comment-page-1/#comment-48037 The Wallet : Loose Change: 10/6/08 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:37:07 +0000 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/#comment-48037 [...] Investing: -Preferred stocks might not actually be preferable. Because, alas, not all of us are dealmakers like Buffet. [WSJ] -A compendium of stocks that won’t falter during the recession. Think Ronald McDonald and Sam Walton. [MSN] -How a dividend stock junkie chooses which dividend stocks to buy. [Dividend Guy] [...] [...] Investing: -Preferred stocks might not actually be preferable. Because, alas, not all of us are dealmakers like Buffet. [WSJ] -A compendium of stocks that won’t falter during the recession. Think Ronald McDonald and Sam Walton. [MSN] -How a dividend stock junkie chooses which dividend stocks to buy. [Dividend Guy] [...]

]]> By: Thankful For Fools http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/comment-page-1/#comment-47662 Thankful For Fools Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:06:05 +0000 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/#comment-47662 I always appreciate a simplified view of how to screen dividend paying stocks. Is anyone here able to list a few that meet these criteria? Thanks I always appreciate a simplified view of how to screen dividend paying stocks.

Is anyone here able to list a few that meet these criteria?

Thanks

]]> By: cannon_fodder http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/comment-page-1/#comment-47646 cannon_fodder Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:37:57 +0000 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/#comment-47646 For US listed stocks, I downloaded MSN's stock screener. It is quite powerful although it doesn't have EVERY criterion I would like. For Canadian stocks, I went to a mutual fund that listed all of the dividend "aristocrats" and then used dividendinvestors.ca to look at them one-by-one. I found that the information there isn't always accurate so you still need to do some investigation. I used Excel to input a web query to dividendinvestors.ca (the ticker symbols again gleaned from a mutual fund that deals with Canadian dividend achievers/aristocrats) and then populated a spreadsheet with this info. Then it was pretty simple to create some filters within Excel to identify which stocks met all of the criteria I was interested in. P.S. I, too, reiterate that dividend payout ratio was a key criterion for me. For US listed stocks, I downloaded MSN’s stock screener. It is quite powerful although it doesn’t have EVERY criterion I would like.

For Canadian stocks, I went to a mutual fund that listed all of the dividend “aristocrats” and then used dividendinvestors.ca to look at them one-by-one. I found that the information there isn’t always accurate so you still need to do some investigation.

I used Excel to input a web query to dividendinvestors.ca (the ticker symbols again gleaned from a mutual fund that deals with Canadian dividend achievers/aristocrats) and then populated a spreadsheet with this info.

Then it was pretty simple to create some filters within Excel to identify which stocks met all of the criteria I was interested in.

P.S. I, too, reiterate that dividend payout ratio was a key criterion for me.

]]> By: Tom http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/comment-page-1/#comment-47635 Tom Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:14:02 +0000 http://www.thedividendguyblog.com/the-four-most-important-metrics-when-evaluating-dividend-stocks/#comment-47635 Ditto on the request for a site that allows you to screen for the 4 metrics you listed. Ditto on the request for a site that allows you to screen for the 4 metrics you listed.

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