About a month ago, I reviewed a US Dividend Portfolio that is being offered by a broker I know. Since the broker is Canadian, he also had a Canadian Dividend portfolio he presents to his clients. I thought of taking a look at this portfolio too and adding my grain of salt. So here’s the Canadian Dividend Portfolio: The Canadian portfolio give about the same result Funny enough, you can build this Canadian dividend portfolio with $20,470$ (including 15 buy transactions at …
Best Canadian Dividend Stocks
On Monday, I discussed how I modified my filter in the search of the best US dividend stocks. What I like about the US market is its size and diversification. You can “easily” find great dividend stocks across different sectors and complete your asset allocation without much trouble. Well when I ran the same filters on the Canadian market, I wasn’t able to get 49 great picks. In fact, I was only able to get 13 dividend stocks that made the grade with the following criteria: - Dividend yield …
Best US Dividend Stocks
Back in August, I created a filter to find the best US dividend stocks. My criteria were the following: - Dividend yield over 3% - Stock price over $10.00 - Payout Ratio under 60% Then, with your comments, I decided to pull out another search for the Top US dividend stocks by changing my filters for the following: - Dividend yield over 3% - Maximum dividend yield 7% - Payout Ratio under 60% - Dividend growth (min 5% annualized growth over 5 years) - P/E ratio under …
Why Dividend Investing Will Become The Investment Trend In 2011
As we all know; there are a lot of dividend investors in the market. Some like the thought of getting paid quarterly, others think it is the best growth model for an investment portfolio but all agree that dividend investing works. And it sure does. But I am under the impression that this investment strategy will gain even more momentum in 2011. Dividend Investing is Solid For those who are looking for long term portfolio growth, dividend investing seems to be a very interesting model. …
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Should You Benefit From Low Interest Rates and Borrow To Invest More?
I have been toying with this idea for the past 6 months. The reason why I haven’t made a move yet is that I was too busy managing debts and moving into my new house. Now that I am settled, I am again looking at the low borrowing rates and the high dividend yields paid by good companies and am asking myself; “Is it too good to be true?”. I live in Canada and I currently have the possibility to borrow money below the prime rate (I enjoy a discount since I work for a bank). Therefore, my …
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Dividends for Q3 2010 and Outlook for Q4 2010
We are quickly heading into the last quarter of 2010 while the stock market has been boiling for the past couple of weeks. After the worries generated by the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) back in May and the enormous US deficit, investors seem to be comforted by the good news coming from US companies. When we talk about good news, we also talk about dividend stocks maintaining or increasing their dividends. So let’s take a look at what happened in Q3 2010 in the world of …
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