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My Favorite Free Stock Market Tool
Tools matter. If you have ever tried to use a straight edge screwdriver to unscrew a Phillips head screw or rake leaves on your lawn with a garden rake you know what I’m talking about. My Dad would always say: “Get the right tool for the job it makes the work go much easier.” Growing […]
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 […]
Spread the word Dividend Geek is now Free!
We’re Free! Dividend Geek is thrilled to announce that our website is now free! Yes that’s right, not just free for a trial period, but completely free. We are changing from a pay for premium content model to a web traffic advertising revenue model. This is great news for existing members as you will continue […]
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 […]
Clorox Rasies Dividend for 37th Consecutive Year
Clorox bleach – I have a big bottle of it in my laundry room, odds are you do too. Clorox announced a $0.74 quarterly dividend today payable Aug 8 for shareholders of record on July 23. That’s a 4.2% raise from the previous $0.71 quarterly dividend. I know, not a spectacular dividend growth rate for […]
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 […]
QualComm Hits it out of the Park
One of our Dividend Geek best dividend growth stocks in the technology sector Qualcomm (QCOM) announced the following today: – A 20% increase in the Company’s quarterly cash dividend – A $5.0 billion increase in its stock repurchase authorization. The cash dividend will increase from $0.35 to $0.42 per share of common stock and will […]
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 […]