The Dividend Guy

One of the investment accounts that I have is through the Canadian Shareowner's Association's (CSA) Co-Op Trading Service. Part of their offering is a pre-screened list of securities that passes what they call their criteria based on, "strong growth, financial and operating fundamentals [with] the capacity to continue their strong growth into the future." Once companies meet this criteria they are added to the list of possible investments that clients can buy shares in. Obviously there are …

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We all have all read that it is our responsibility as dividend investors to buy stocks in companies that we know and that we can understand. There is also the mindset that one should invest in companies that you are a passionate user of the products the company produces. I had an interesting conversation with a colleague of mine the other day and this is one his primary methods for choosing a stock to invest in. For example, he loves the new Coke Zero and recently bought the stock. As a …

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The are basically two lists is North American that track the dividend increases for thousands of companies: high dividend achievers and high dividend aristocrats. The primary criteria for these lists are a consistent record of dividend increases for a specific number of years. When I say consistent, I mean it. Each company on each list must not have missed a dividend increase in the requisite number of years. So what is the real difference between the two groups of stocks? The difference lies …

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