Dividend Growth

  At the beginning of the year, I used my Holidays to write The 2012 Best Dividend Stock eBook. I completed 30 analyses of 21US and 9 Canadian stocks. The reason why I had picked these dividend payers and not others was the result of using several filters.   While it’s fun to make lists and talk about them, I feel that bloggers and financial journalists often fail to follow-up on their selections. This is why I decided to take a look back at my predictions and see how well (or …

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A loyal reader, Chereen, asked me the following question via email:   “I would like to retire with a yearly income of $39,000. I wonder how much I need to put aside in order to receive this amount in dividends each year”.   A blunt answer would be the following:   “Assume a 3.5% dividend yield and divide $39,000 by 3.5%. You will get $1,114,285. This is your magic number”.   Well, technically, if you invest $1,114,285 today and build a dividend …

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    For the beginning of the year, I did some research on a lot of stocks and wrote the Best Dividend Stocks for 2012 eBook (you can download it for free here). This eBook includes 29 stocks (20 US and 9 Canadian) that have been showing very solid dividend metrics.   When I did my research, I was using the following filters: Dividend Yield over 3% (because low dividend yield stocks are not of interest in the current market) Dividend Payout Ratio under 75% …

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