Dividend Growth Investing
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 […]
101 Dividend Investing Tips from the experts
I was recently offered the opportunity to provide some investing tips for an article edited by Jimmy Atkinson of Dividend Reference entitled: “101 Dividend Investing Tips from the experts“. He surveyed 49 dividend investing experts and compiled the best 101 tips. Whether you are an experienced investor or just beginning you will find excellent advice […]
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+ […]
Adding Kinder Morgan to our Best Dividend Growth Stock List
We are adding Kinder Morgan (KMI) to our Best Dividend Growth Stock list following the announcement of a plan to consolidate Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), Kinder Morgan Management (KMR), and El Paso Pipeline Partners (EPB) into a single corporation. The consolidation announcement on Monday (Aug 11) sent shares of (KMI) rocketing up 9% from […]
Dividend Geek is Live!
We are excited to announce that we now have live data during market hours! Now after you login the ‘Check for Undervalued Stocks’ screening page will display the current discount to fair value percentages based on the current market stock price. For example, in the consumer discretionary sector shown below during market hours the current […]
Have Capital? Thoughts on Building Your Dividend Growth Portfolio
A Dividend Geek member recently asked me: “I have a 401K account that I am rolling over to a self-directed retirement account. My question to you, if you have $100,000 to invest immediately, how much would you put in each stock that meets the 20% below fair market value.” I have been asked similar questions […]
Financial Freedom – Part 1
Financial freedom or ‘FI’ the acronym for financial independence that is commonly used in the dividend growth investing blogshere, has been on my mind a lot lately. People have various definitions of FI or ideas of what this means to them. To me I have boiled it down to this: “Financial independence is when your […]
Announcing Dividend Geek v2.0
We are pleased to announce Dividend Geek 2.0! We have added 32 new dividend growth stocks to our existing dividend growth investment tools: – Income Machine Portfolio – Portfolio Sector Allocation – Finding Undervalued Stocks – Watch List Alerts This will allow members more opportunities to find and purchase great companies when they are trading […]
UNS Energy Corp (UNS) BOOM! Up 29%
Today Fortis announced an agreement to buy UNS Energy Corp (UNS) for $2.5 Billion. UNS is one of our original 50 best dividend growth stocks. The $60.25 per-share offer, which Fortis intends to pay in cash, is a 31% premium to UNS’s $45.84 closing price Wednesday. Congratulations if you choose to purchase UNS from our […]
How to Determine Near Term Market Support
In my previous post How to get your Minions working for you – Part 2 I discussed a ‘Buy on Dips’ strategy were you would consider to purchase one of our high quality dividend growth stocks when the market is within 20% of the near term market low (the dip). Just how do you determine […]