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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Dividend Investing eBook – How To build a Never Ending Cash Distributor
This is a big day for me as I am launching my first eBook: Dividend Investing How To build a Never Ending Cash Distributor I have announced in my newsletter that I would launch it at the end of May. We ran into a few speed bumps and I really wanted to make sure this was the most complete dividend investing eBook you can find on the internet. Since I have created What Is a Dividend at the beginning of 2011, I have noticed how you are looking for more and more info on dividend investing. …
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Digging Into the Payout Ratio
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 …
Why Do We Think We Are So Good As Investors
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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Dividend Dad – Dividend Investing and RESP
About 2 weeks ago, I sent an email through my newsletter asking readers about what they would like to read about on The Dividend Guy Blog. One reader asked me how to teach dividends to his 16 year old. I thought it was an amazing topic. As a young dad for 2 great kids (William 5 and Amy 3), I understand the importance of being a role model and showing your kids as many smart things you can. One of them is definitely teaching your kids about dividend investing! I was about to write a …
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