Best 2014 Dividend Stock Pick Returns Beating Both Benchmarks! I started this “tradition” on my blog back in 2012. The goal is to pick 20 US and 10 CDN dividend stocks that I think will outperform their peers. This is the reason why I use VIG and XDV as my benchmarks. I keep track of my results for accountability purposes. I find that too many analysts and blogs just drop the ball on their picks when they aren’t so great. By posting monthly results, I have no choice but to face my …
The Top 20 Most Powerful Dividend Stocks to Buy Now
Last week, I gave as much detail as possible on my dividend growth model. The goal of this model is to build a ranking where all companies would be evaluated based upon several criteria. This leads to The Rock Solid Ranking available exclusively at Dividend Stocks Rock. But I also wanted to share a bit of this ranking with the top 20 most powerful dividend stocks to buy now for your portfolio. Since the ranking is based on fundamentals but also on the current …
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Best 2014 Dividend stocks Returns & TSX60 Ex Dividend Date
I’m taking a quick pause in my new investing series about how to build an investment strategy (read part 1 and part2) to publish my stock pick returns as at March 31st and the usual TSX60 dividend yield and ex-dividend date chart. After a full quarter, I’m already taking a step ahead of both US and CDN benchmarks. Let’s check how I beat both benchmarks by more than 1%. PSST! If you are curious to know how I keep beating the market with dividend stocks for the past 3 years, check out my new …
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TSX Ex Dividend Date + Best 2014 Dividend Stocks Returns
Wow… it has been a long month, right? I left for my first “couple vacation” (read; without kids!) in the last ten years! We went to Hawaii to take some real time off, do all kinds of crazy things (like jumping into a waterfall and diving into a crater) and get some sun (I live in the cold winterland: Canada!). Now that I’m back, snow and ice are still around and the stock market seems to be relatively stuck in ice as well. Both the Canadian and US …
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January: Stocks are Down, But I Still Beat Both Benchmark with my Picks!
The market didn’t start the way we thought it would in 2014. I was in the camp of optimists believing the rally would continue with the earnings season. But there were some hiccups and the S&P 500 is down -3.56% and the S&P TSX was timidly up by 0.54%. The sad part is the hiccups came from the earnings. In other words: companies didn’t make as much profit as anticipated. For the superstitious, the first month of the year on the stock market means a lot. When we look at the stats over …
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Another Purchase in My Portfolio
I truly enjoy the month of January as it is usually the time when I have extra cash to fund my retirement investment account. This year, I’m adding $5,000 to my pot. In addition to this amount, I have over $1,500 that was waiting in an US index fund that I will use to buy new stocks. Instead of waiting on a pile of cash, I usually invest my dividend payouts in an index fund. This is a good method to diversify a few hundred bucks at a low cost that benefits from any market upside. I …
