DivGuy, Author at The Dividend Guy Blog

Why Does Stella-Jones Stock Keep Going Down?

I keep losing money on this one. Stella-Jones went from about $100 to under $70 in the same year. A listener asked me what in the wood is going on. Yes, pun intended. I have three kids, so dad jokes come with the job. I have owned Stella-Jones for a while, so I am biased. I like the company. I like it less when it drops 30% in a year. Two things drive a stock price: the numbers and the narrative. Let's look at both. *Disclosure: I own Stella-Jones (SJ.TO). This is education, not …

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3 Stocks to Get the Best Out of the Trade War

Blog, Dividend stocks

The trade war is getting worse. There are tariffs everywhere. That is also where the opportunities are. Today I am on the positive side. Here are the sectors that shield you, the sectors taking the hit, and three companies that could do well down the road. *Disclosure: I own Stantec (STN.TO), CGI (GIB.A.TO), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ.TO), National Bank (NA.TO) and Royal Bank (RY.TO). I do not own Adentra (ADEN.TO). This is education, not advice. Do your own due diligence. What …

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4 Signs of a Bear Market, and Why I Am Still Fully Invested

Blog, Investing Strategy

I have been fully invested in stocks for 23 years. I tell you to stay invested, and I mean it. Right now, indicators suggest a bear market is brewing. Four things bother me at the same time, and that has not happened in a while. Not one of them is making me sell a share. *Disclosure: I own National Bank (NA.TO), Canadian Natural Resources (CNQ.TO), Apple (AAPL) and Microsoft (MSFT). This is education, not advice. Do your own due diligence. Is a Bear Market Coming? Four pressures are …

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Why a 2% Dividend Yield Portfolio Beats a 25% One

Blog, Dividend Growth

Who puts $750,000 into a portfolio paying 2% when the same money can buy a 25% yield? That is $15,000 of income a year against $187,500. Written that way, nobody picks the $15,000. I pick it. One of those two portfolios is still paying me in twenty years. The other one runs on a distribution nobody has proven can last. *Disclosure: I own Apple (AAPL), National Bank (NA.TO) and Royal Bank (RY.TO). This is education, not advice. Do your own due diligence. What Is the Point of a 2% …

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Pension to LIRA: 9 Years of Real Returns, No New Money – Dividend Income Report

Blog, Dividend Income Report

In 2016, I made a life-changing decision: I took a sabbatical, put my family in a small RV, and we drove all the way to Costa Rica. Upon my return in 2017, I officially quit my job as a private banker at National Bank and started working full-time on my baby: Dividend Stocks Rock. I also decided to manage my pension account held at the National Bank. I’ve built and managed this portfolio publicly since 2017 to create and track a real-life case study. In August 2017, I received $108,760.02 in a …

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Is Dividend Investing Dead? What Died and What Didn’t

Blog, Investing Strategy

"Dividend investing as I knew it and loved it is dead." That is not my line. It belongs to Todd Wenning, a dividend investor who spent years making the case for dividend growth stocks. He published it on Flyover Stocks. The Globe and Mail picked it up. A reader named Kevin sent it to me. I read it twice. Then I did something you might not expect from a guy who has been following a dividend growth investing strategy since 2010. I agreed with most of it. Not all of it. But most of …

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