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This guest post was written by Ben Reynolds, of Sure Dividend The Dividend Aristocrat Index has outperformed the overall stock market by 2.88 percentage points per year over the last decade.  A Dividend Aristocrat stock has paid increasing dividends for 25 or more consecutive years.  To accomplish this feat, a business must have stable, growing cash flows.  Dividend Aristocrats as a whole have made excellent buy and hold investments over the last several years.  Not all Dividend Aristocrats …

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    Each month on this blog, I publish my Best 2014 stock picks for both the US and Canadian markets. I always compare my picks to a dividend ETF. When I look at my own portfolio, I do the same thing. Finally, each month I publish my Dividend Stocks Portfolios at Dividend Stocks Rock and compare them to dividend ETFs as well. Some investors don’t do this because they feel good as long as they receive their dividends on a monthly basis and that their portfolio value doesn’t show a …

Continue Reading about Why Do I Find it So Important to Compare My Returns to an ETF?

  About 6 months ago, I wrote about how stock splits are more a marketing strategy than anything else. In fact, the real stock value doesn’t change and the individual investor who cares about buying a stock at $30 instead of $90 after a split 1:3 won’t affect much the market. After all, institutional traders (banks, insurance companies, financial firms and pension plans) are the real players in this market. How can you and I influence the stock market when one player can buy $10M worth …

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