At the beginning of the year, I pulled together 32 dividend stocks to pick in 2012. They were named the 2012 Best Dividend Stocks in my free eBook. It’s always fun to throw predictions on the table, but I think it’s even more important to follow them throughout the year. This is what I did after the first quarter (you can read my update here). At that time, I was outperforming both US and Canadian markets with my picks. I had a few top scorers that were making the bulk of my …
Seagate Technology STX Dividend Stock Analysis
For those who follow my dividend holdings, you probably noticed that I have sold ZWB and bought STX not so long ago. I’ve already shared my disappointment in ZWB and decided to move on quickly. When I sold ZWB, I was down by about 12% (loss of $251.38 after dividend payments). STX is almost getting this loss back after 6 weeks since the trade (I’m currently +$235 at the moment of writing this post). I wasn’t expecting to make a quick profit on this stock as I think I can get …
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Dividend Link Time
Let's jump into the hits from the past week: 1. Sign That Times Are Bad.. Governments Desperately Looking For Revenues… @ IS. 2. The Awkward Millionaire @ MJTM. 3. 5 Tips to Help You Reach Your Retirement Goals @ Canadian Finance Blog. 4. 5 Benefits To Building Your ETF Portfolio @ Build Your ETF Portfolio. 5. What’s Up With All the Life Insurance Choices? @ Invest It Wisely. 6. Pepsico: Estimated to Offer 9% Rate of Return @ Dividend Monk. 7. Dividend Paying Tech …
What’s Your Bet On…
We have six months done in 2012 and stock markets seem to have gone nowhere. I want to know what you think is going to happen for the next six months. Where will we be at the end of December? I’m asking you the question and giving you my answer… So what’s your bet on… TheUSStock Market? I think the US stock market will finish on a positive note. The FEDseems to support economic growth by maintaining its interest rate at the minimum and …
Be the Tiger Woods of Investing: Beat Everybody Else By Avoiding the Big Miss
As I’m coming back from vacation, I asked Paul from Capital Manifesto to write this guest post about investing behaviors. I can relate to this article as in the past two years, my dividend stock picks did very well but I wasn’t able to avoid “the Big Miss”. My two trades on RIM (2011) and on VNP (2012) were two “Big Miss” and brought my whole portfolio down. The funny part is that I’m a similar golfer; I’m doing well overall but I’m always trying to do THE shot that will make …
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Dividend Growth Update Q2
Dividend Growth Index Q2 Update In September 2011, a group of 8 bloggers started the Dividend Growth Index. We picked three stocks each to create a Dividend Growth Portfolio. The goal is not to do a stock picking competition but to build a real dividend portfolio in order to give you ideas of what it look like overtime. We are all allowed to make trades but are less likely to make several of them. The purpose is to benefit from dividend increase throughout the years. We post updates …
