Last week, we looked at 2 very interesting dividend stocks: Coca-Cola – KO and PepsiCo – PEP. 2 huge companies, 2 popular beverage marketers, 2 dividend aristocrats! What can we really except from this dividend stock battle? The fight of the Titans! So who’s gonna win with a KO? ;-) KO and PEP last week's results While I was doing both stock analyses last week, the 2 dividend payers disclosed their Q2 results. First off the dividend news: KO declares an …
Why We Are Stuck in Hell With Bad CDs While Good Bonds Go To Heaven
If you are looking to build a retirement portfolio or you simply have a big aversion to risk, you probably have your fair share of bad-rates-certificate-of-deposits (CD’s) or low interest bonds. Regardless if you are a US or Canadian citizens, interest rates for fixed income investments are very low. One of the only options left is to turn over dividend investing. Unfortunately, this investing strategy doesn’t provide capital protection. So if you want to keep investing is safe …
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High Yield Dividend Portfolio Example Giving 8% Dividend Payout!
Since we launched Dividend Investing – How To Build A Never Ending Cash Distributor, we have received several emails from readers and new subscribers. I’m trying to answer to as many as possible individually. Sometimes, I get enough stuff that I decide to write a full article. This is the case today with the analysis of a high yield dividend portfolio from a reader. This Canadian investor is making 8% with his portfolio, let’s take a closer look: The High Yield Dividend …
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Improve Your Trading By Using Moving Averages
Many of you might have been surprised by the title of this post. Why? Rarely do we hear about technical trading when discussing dividend stocks. The main reason is a logical one of course. Dividend investing is all about value and that usually translates exclusively to fundamentals. So there is no surprise in the fact that all of the main things I look for in dividend stocks such as profits, revenues, a strong balance sheet, and others all relate to fundamentals. However, I don't believe that …
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Dividend Battle Stock PM Vs BTI
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 …
Covered Call ETF High Income, Low Risk?
For those who are looking for a low risk income producing investment, you have been on the wrong side of the equation for the past 3 years! In fact, both certificates of deposit and bonds show poor interest returns. Canadians even saw their high income producing income trusts reduced to Canadian REITs in 2011. So if you are looking for a steady income stream from your investments, you do not have many choices but to look towards dividend investing. Unless… yup UNLESS you have heard of …
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