Dividend Growth

Josh Peters is the author of the Morningstar newsletter DividendInvestor and most recently the author of the great dividend book The Ultimate Dividend Playbook. As I was digging around Monringstar the other day I came across a pretty good video from him that explains the dividend investment process and some things that are important for a dividend investor to examine. The video is a little bit outdated in terms of the stocks mentioned but it still worse listening to. I like his …

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I believe you can take a stab at it, but it is not something you should do to make your investment decision on. If you do it, it should only be for interest sake and because you are the kind of person who likes to mess around with analyzing your investment holdings (like me!). That being said, one thing about companies that consistently raise their dividends is that it becomes relatively easy to make a prediction of the future dividend payments an investor can hope for in the future. …

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Investing in stocks that continually increase their dividends has the dramatic effect of consistently giving investors a raise each and every year. I have kept track of my own personal dividend income since really focusing on dividend growth as a strategy in 2005. Shooting forward almost 3 years and my dividend income has gone from $727 per year to its current $1320 per year. The growth in this dividend income has come from two sources. The first and most obvious is that I have continued …

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I have been getting a whole bunch of emails recently asking me for my picks of the highest dividend yielding stocks that I would recommend buying. I think this really speaks to two factors at play here. First, I do not make recommendations on what stocks to buy. I am not a financial advisor nor am I licensed to offer investment advice. Second, when trying to build a dividend portfolio it is not the dividend yield that is important - it is the dividend growth! Dividend yield is simply …

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