Dividend Geek Portfolio
Two New Trades
Two of my open orders were just filled. Combined these two positions will generate a steady $655.00 of annual dividend income. For details log into your Dividend Geek account and go Member > Dividend Geek Trades. In other dividend news, Pfizer (PFE) recently increased its dividend 6.25% and authorized another $10 Billion to its share […]
Exclusive New Features to Dividend Geek Members
Good news for Dividend Geek members! When you are logged into your account you can now access Dividend Geek’s trades and portfolio information, two new features located under the ‘Member’ button on the menu bar. Dividend Geek Trades The new ‘Dividend Geek Trades’ feature allow you access my latest trades and current open orders in real-time […]
18 Core Dividend Growth Stocks to Strengthen Your Portfolio
Dividend growth investing by its nature is a conservative long-term investing methodology. But, with all of the recent uncertainty in the world (maybe this election cycle is getting to me) I have felt the need to bolster my portfolio with additional strength. I decided to review the companies listed in my current prospective dividend growth […]
Fair Value Increases and Retailers take a hit
Here’s a quick update on changes in fair values… The following four companies that we follow had their fair value increased recently by Morningstar. Medtronics in the healthcare sector having the best percentage jump of 9.2% from $76 to $83 per share. CLX from $114 to $115 COST from $140 to $143 LOW from $81 […]
Latest Purchase Polaris Industries
In my last post on April 28 I mentioned that it looked like Polaris Industries (PII) had some near term support in the $96 range, which would help raise the dividend yield. At the time it was trading around $100 a share. Well yesterday (5/3/16) just 5 days later PII opened at $98.50 and pulled […]
Balancing my Portfolio Sector Weighting
This past winter the collapse of oil prices and the reduced forecasts in global growth (mainly China) have brought about some deep bargains in the Energy and Industrial sectors. During the sell off I purchased a little too much of a good thing. In doing so my portfolio became overweight in these sectors and too […]
New Tools and Cisco Systems
New Tools I have recently added two new tools that I use to help identify buying opportunities. The first is my Watchlist and the second is a 10×10 scoring chart developed by David Van Knapp. They are both listed on the main menu. Once you go to the page scroll down to the bottom to […]
7 New Dividend Growth Stocks
I just completed my annual search for high quality companies that qualify for the Dividend Geek Best Dividend Growth Stocks List. I was able to find seven new stocks that met our rigorous selection criteria: 10 or more years of consecutive dividend increases (in some cases we will consider exceptional companies that have achieved 7+ […]
Buying ConocoPhillips (COP)
I’m adding 30 shares of ConocoPhillips (COP) on Monday (Dec 1) to the Dividend Geek (Roth IRA) portfolio. Although the portfolio is already overweight in the Energy sector the recent drop in the price of crude oil has created a buying opportunity in Energy companies. On Thursday Nov 27 Saudi Arabia’s oil minister told fellow […]
2013 Results – Dividend Geek Portfolio
Happy New Year! It’s that time of year to review how well we have done towards achieving our goals and following our strategy. Notice that I didn’t say how much the market went up or if we beat the market (S&P 500 index). As a dividend growth investor I am focused on my ultimate objective […]