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High Dividend Yield Stocks: What’s Wrong With Them

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  What’s the point of investing in dividend stocks if it’s not to earn high dividend yields?   The main appeal of investing in dividend stocks is definitely to build a passive source of income. Too often, low dividend yield stocks are dismissed to the profit of high yield dividend stocks. Investors are often greedy and look at short term income. Most dividend stocks are paying a dividend yield between 2% and 4%. In my own terms, stocks paying higher than 4% are called high …

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New Design Same Great Blog

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    Hey everyone!   If you have been on The Dividend Guy Blog last week, you might have seen the new design that we have today. We made several tests and are still trying to improve this “beta version”. Hopefully, everything will run smoothly during this week and I’ll be able to post as usual.   New Design – Same Blog   The reason why we installed a new Design was because we thought the old one wasn’t up-to-date. In fact, it was iimplemented in 2007! …

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Dividend Growth Index Update, The Dividend Guy Blog Nominated And Vacation Time!

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Hey everyone!   just want to make 4 announcements today:   #1 I'm on vacation, so no post this week :-) I'll be returning in early September, I definitely need some time off from my computer!   #2 We are making a trade in the Dividend Growth Index: On August 15th, we sold SPLS @ $12. The stock has been replaced by JNJ (for more details, just look at Dividend Ninja's update).   #3 I'm almost ready to sell my eBook and currently in the process of selling …

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Quick Guide to Analyze Dividend Funds

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    I’m well aware that most of you are stock pickers, but I noticed that I receive some email from beginner investors that find this blog in their quest to understand how investing works. Since most of them don’t have several thousand to invest in the first place (or they are stuck with their employer's pension plan mutual fund package!), they send me questions about mutual funds.   While I obviously prefer selecting my own stocks, I can appreciate that you might not …

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Set Small Savings’ Objectives and Realize Big Returns

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    Let me share a little story with you this Monday morning…   I find it very impressive to see the number of things I can learn from my kids. The most impressive is that not only do I learn life lessons, I also learn about money too! Since it’s summer time and we are all thinking about vacation, let’s start this Monday with a lighthearted story about saving money…   Not so long ago, my son turned 7. Each year for his birthday, we bring him to Toys “R” Us …

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