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Passionate DivInvestor, Father of 3 & Retired from the corporate world at 35.

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2 Stocks on My Buy List: Northrop Grumman and CCL Industries

Since January, the market has paid up for a short list of winners and walked past a lot of good businesses. That gap is where I went looking this week. Both stocks in this piece came off the same screen: a DSR PRO rating of at least 4, a Dividend Safety score of at least […]

Economic Moats: How Switching Costs and Network Effects Protect Your Dividend

This is the second of two articles on economic moats. The first part covered intangible assets, cost advantages, and scale. We now cover the other two sources, the ones that are hardest to break once they take hold: switching costs and the network effect. Same reminder as before. A moat protects a company’s margins, and […]

Economic Moats: How Brands, Low Costs, and Scale Protect Your Dividend

This is the first of two articles on economic moats. We cover three of the sources that build one: intangible assets, cost advantages, and scale. The next part covers the other two: switching costs and network effects. First, why does this matter to a dividend investor? A moat protects a company’s margins. Healthy margins are […]

How to Find and Analyze Stocks to Buy

Most investors think stock analysis starts with research. It doesn’t. It starts with a decision about how you make decisions. I see buying and selling as two sides of the same coin. The reasons you use to buy a stock should be the same reasons you use to sell it. Get that right and you […]

We have a Valuation Problem – May Dividend Income Report

In 2016, I made a life-changing decision: I took a sabbatical, put my family in a small RV, and we drove all the way to Costa Rica. Upon my return in 2017, I officially quit my job as a private banker at National Bank and started working full-time on my baby: Dividend Stocks Rock. I […]