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    Have you ever wondered how a fight between two old giant smokers would end-up? With lots of smoke and coughing fits to boot! Seriously, today we are going to look at which is the better stock to hold between Philip Morris International (PM) and British American Tobacco (BTI). So which is the best tobacco stock?   First things first, I should apologize for the research I did on Philip Morris. I mentioned in my original post that PM generated 50% of its sales in the …

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We’ve been questions regarding all of the dividend data that we use to analyze different stocks when we try to find the top ones (see our Top US Dividend Stocks and Top Canadian Dividend Stocks), especially about the payout ratio. It seems simple enough but the reader was (rightfully) confused about seeing different numbers between two websites and was wondering which one was right and what could cause these differences. It seemed like answer that might be of interest to quite a few readers so …

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As I am writing this article, I am really wondering: what makes YOU think you are better than the market? Or better than a financial advisor/broker? Is it because of the fees they charge? Is it because you think you can time the market? Or do you simply believe that ETF investing or Dividend Investing are better strategies that will always outperform the market? I want to know your reason… as I am in the same boat ;-) In my day job as a financial planner, I encounter a lot of people who …

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