Recent Blog Posts
Updated Sectors Dashboard
The sectors dashboard which allows investors visibility into each of the 11 S&P 500 sectors has been updated. In order to include more information about each sector I have changed the design from a horizontal to a vertical orientation. The new design now includes two additional metrics, the Year-To-Date (YTD) percent performance and the daily […]
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World – #5
Let’s take a deeper look into the first ETF WisdomTree Cloud Computing (WCLD). To give you context let’s jump into the exactly what this ETF is made of and look at its holdings. There are 52 individual companies that comprise this fund. ETF Style Objective Expense Ratio Return Yield Dividend Growth Economic Moat P/E Ratio […]
How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World – #4
Continuing from the previous post (How I’m Investing in a Post Pandemic World #3) let’s check to see if my new investment strategy satisfies objectives #4 and #5: #4 -High performance by taking advantage of future growth industries via concentration, but still provide diversification against business risk From my research I selected two aggressive growth […]
Updated ETF Screener
The ETF screener has been moved to the main menu and updated to include four aggressive growth ETF’s (Exchange Traded Funds) and two new dividend yield ETF’s. The new aggressive growth ETF’s are: WCLD – Wisdomtree Cloud Computing Fund QQQ – Investco QQQ Trust (Nasdaq 100) XLV – Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund ARKK […]
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); […]