Recent Blog Posts
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World – #3
Continuing on the question of diversification vs. concentration from my previous post… My dividend growth investing strategy for income, income growth and value using individual stocks put me clearly in the diversification camp, which reduces what’s called unsystematic risk or business risk. The other type of risk is systematic risk. Systematic risk affects the market […]
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World – #2
First I’m going to focus on the ‘What’ I plan on investing in going forward in this post pandemic world. Then I will cover the ‘How and When’ to invest. I’m not sure how many posts this will take, so let’s get started. First let me give you a little background. I am and have […]
Recent Dividend Increases
Here are the recent dividend increases that have been announced over the past two weeks for dividend growth companies that we follow: Altria (MO) next dividend of $0.86 per share, a 2.4% increase from MO’s previous payout of $0.84. American States Water (AWR) next dividend of $0.34 per share, a 9.84% increase from AWR’s previous […]
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World
Well a lot has happened in the past 5 months when Corona Virus, and COVID-19, became commonplace words that we hear everyday. My kids just call it ‘the corona’. As in don’t worry Dad “she doesn’t have the corona.” I have been pretty much out of commission on the blog, remind me not to prep […]
QCOM up 12% after hours!
Just a quick note… Good news for owners of QCOM. Q3 earnings just released: EPS of $0.86 vs. $0.70 forecast. Also, they announced a 5G license agreement with Huawei which was included in their Q4 earnings guidance. QCOM’s 5 year dividend growth rate was 10%, but slowed to 4% last year. Disclosure: Dividend Geek is […]
Latest Quality Score and Dividend Safety Ranking Changes due to Covid-19 Crisis
The following companies have recently had their Simply Safe Dividends ranking downgraded, which; in turn has lowered each companies overall quality score listed on our site (where 25 points is the highest score). Downgrades JPM 79 to 60 (Safe to Borderline); Quality Score changed from 22 to 21 WFC 79 to 55 (Safe to Borderline); […]
Recent Quality Score Downgrades Due to Economic Impact of COVID-19
Quick Update Simply Safe Dividends has recently downgraded their dividend safety score for the following companies, which; in turn has lowered each companies overall quality score listed on our site (where 25 points is the highest score). DIS 99 to 65 (Very Safe to Safe); Quality Score changed from 24 to 23 EPD 89 to […]
Polaris Industries: Blue-Chip Stock For Dividend Growth Investors
Many thanks to Sure Dividend for the following guest post! The term “blue-chip” stock gets thrown around quite loosely in the financial media. Generally, it refers to quality, stable dividend payers that do not display high volatility. But at Sure Dividend, we have a more precise definition for what constitutes a blue-chip stock. In our […]
New Year Updates – Dividend Growth and Quality Scores
Dividend Growth Rates The website screeners have been updated to reflect the dividend increases for 2019 which is reflected in the 1 Year Dividend Growth Rate column (1 Yr DGR). Naturally the 2019 dividend increases are now reflected in the averages for the ‘3 Yr DGR’ column and the ‘1,3,5 Yr Avg DGR’ column, which […]
Bevy of End of Year Dividend Increases
With the end of the year quickly approaching many companies are getting in their 2019 dividend increases. Here are the increases announced in the first half of December for the dividend growth stocks we follow. Abbott Laboratories (ABT) announced its next dividend of $0.36 per share, a 12.5% increase from ABT’s previous payout of $0.32. […]