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 …
$39K in Dividend The Power of Dividend Growth
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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A 100% Dividend Stock Portfolio is a Safe Portfolio
We are often under the impression that when we invest in the stock market, we are taking risks. The media doesn’t miss an occasion to remind us how the stock market crashed in 2008 and makes also sure to “advertise” on their premium spots every time investments drop by 10%. Considering it happens all the time, we are fooled into perceiving that the stock market is a risky place to invest our money. It gets even worse when we are about to retire since we count on our nest egg live the …
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Grow Your Stocks With $0
The most interesting part of investing (after buying stocks) is probably looking at your portfolio grow. Combine the magic of systematic investing with compounding interest and you get some impressive results. But you can even do more with less. You can grow your portfolio in another way which will completely be free of cash flow from your wallet. The 3rd magic ingredient to make the perfect investing magic potion is to use the dividend payouts to grow your …
Best US Dividend Stocks For 2012
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% …
How I Beat The Market With My Dividend Trades
To be completely honest with you, I have been interested in dividend investing for a while but only switched my portfolio towards this approach back in January 2011. Why did I take so long? Simply because I had a lot of success by trading more aggressively in the past. From 2003 to 2006, I made enough money to build up a $50,000 down payment to buy my first house. Then, I started in 2008 to trade the way I had previously (by taking a lot of risks!) and I got hit brutally by bad trades such as …
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