Investment Principles
Fair Value Update and 6 Dividend Growth Stocks added to the Watchlist
The following dividend growth stocks received fair value increases by Morningstar for the week ending 4/8/2016. APD from $140 to $146 CAH from $73 to $79 MCD from $122 to $128 There were several significant decreases in fair value as well mostly in the down beaten oil patch: CL from $73 to $71 CVX from […]
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 […]
What young people should do
Yesterday a friend shared with me a short article chalk full of the most amazing advice for young people. I was so impressed that I just have to pass it along to you. If you’re not young enough to take advantage of this I challenge you to share it with your kids or some young […]
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 […]
Beating Inflation & February Dividend Increases
Several of our dividend growth companies increased their dividend payouts to investors during the month of February. Ideally we want to build a portfolio that averages a 10% dividend increase. Their are many great benefits to this strategy, most notably is that you increase the rate by which you compound your assets during your accumulation […]
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 […]