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British American Tobacco BTI Dividend Stock Analysis

Stock Analysis

  Smoking is good… as long as you are smoking and I hold Tobacco Stocks ;-). At the beginning of the month, I had reviewed Philip Morris International (PM), so I am now looking at a second stock in the Tobacco industry in order to prepare for June’s dividend stock battle: PM Vs BTI; two giants holding cigars and cigarettes in their hands. The Company Stock Description: British American Tobacco is a holding company owning investments in several tobacco companies. Their major brands …

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Playing With Ex-Dividend Date

Investing Strategy

  Can you play with an Ex-Dividend date? Is there a way to make a quick buck out by trading the stock according to when it pays its dividend? Do you believe in elves and hobbits? Okay… maybe some people look like hobbits… so maybe playing with Ex-dividend dates work… Let’s take a look at this trading “strategy”.   How Can You Make Money By Playing The Ex-Dividend Date So let’s take a look at an example on how you could possibly make money by playing with the ex-dividend …

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Dividend Investing eBook – How To build a Never Ending Cash Distributor

Blog, Site Introduction

This is a big day for me as I am launching my first eBook: Dividend Investing How To build a Never Ending Cash Distributor I have announced in my newsletter that I would launch it at the end of May. We ran into a few speed bumps and I really wanted to make sure this was the most complete dividend investing eBook you can find on the internet. Since I have created What Is a Dividend at the beginning of 2011, I have noticed how you are looking for more and more info on dividend investing. …

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Digging Into the Payout Ratio

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We’ve been questions regarding all of the dividend data that we use to analyze different stocks when we try to find the top ones (see our Top US Dividend Stocks and Top Canadian Dividend Stocks), especially about the payout ratio. It seems simple enough but the reader was (rightfully) confused about seeing different numbers between two websites and was wondering which one was right and what could cause these differences. It seemed like answer that might be of interest to quite a few readers so …

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Why Do We Think We Are So Good As Investors

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As I am writing this article, I am really wondering: what makes YOU think you are better than the market? Or better than a financial advisor/broker? Is it because of the fees they charge? Is it because you think you can time the market? Or do you simply believe that ETF investing or Dividend Investing are better strategies that will always outperform the market? I want to know your reason… as I am in the same boat ;-) In my day job as a financial planner, I encounter a lot of people who …

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Dividend Dad – Dividend Investing and RESP

Blog, Site Introduction

About 2 weeks ago, I sent an email through my newsletter asking readers about what they would like to read about on The Dividend Guy Blog. One reader asked me how to teach dividends to his 16 year old. I thought it was an amazing topic. As a young dad for 2 great kids (William 5 and Amy 3), I understand the importance of being a role model and showing your kids as many smart things you can. One of them is definitely teaching your kids about dividend investing! I was about to write a …

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