Recent Blog Posts
Oil, Oil, Swimming in Oil
I remember in high school when my track coach Mr. Barnes “Barney” asked me and my best friend Bobby (our teams most excellent pole vaulter) to go get gas for his Honda Civic. Huh? We said: “uh? sure thing coach!” Wait?… Was our hard-nosed disciplinarian coach letting us off the hook on our 100 yard wind […]
Watchlist Fixed, No buys last week
The Watchlist page has been fixed! It now displays all relevant data to find the best dividend growth stocks and when they are trading at a discount to fair value. With the market returning to November highs (DJIA above 17,500) I did not buy any stock this week or add to any positions. Personally I […]
Balancing my Portfolio Sector Weighting
This past winter the collapse of oil prices and the reduced forecasts in global growth (mainly China) have brought about some deep bargains in the Energy and Industrial sectors. During the sell off I purchased a little too much of a good thing. In doing so my portfolio became overweight in these sectors and too […]
Fair Value Increases
The following dividend growth stocks received fair value increases by Morningstar for the week ending 3/25/2016. ACN from $98 to $101 ADP from $77 to $79 KMB from $106 to $109 The new fair value prices have been updated on the ‘Check for Undervalued Stocks’ and ‘Watchlist’ pages. Naturally when the value of a company […]
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 […]
Updated Stats
I have updated all of the stats for the best 80 dividend growth stocks that we cover. This includes all of the numbers listed on the ‘Check for Undervalued Stocks’ page as well as the top 10 below fair value stocks listed on the home page. Most of these numbers are taken from John Fish’s […]
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+ […]
Buying ConocoPhillips (COP)
I’m adding 30 shares of ConocoPhillips (COP) on Monday (Dec 1) to the Dividend Geek (Roth IRA) portfolio. Although the portfolio is already overweight in the Energy sector the recent drop in the price of crude oil has created a buying opportunity in Energy companies. On Thursday Nov 27 Saudi Arabia’s oil minister told fellow […]
Swing Trading – Part 2 Traditional vs Dividend Stocks
In Part 1- Introduction (read it first if you missed it) I went over the basics of traditional swing trading and the possible benefits of using it with a small fraction of your capital. In this post I’m going to explain the differences between traditional swing trading and my swing trading with dividend stocks system. […]