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Why 2008 Was An Awesome Year for Dividend Investors

As I reflect back on 2008, I am caught by the overwhelming feeling that the year was actually a very good thing for dividend investors. It is easy to think that it was a terrible year for our kind! Both Bank of America and Citigroup - long standing dividend payers with wonderful dividend increases year after year - cut their dividend payments drastically. General Electric - the poster buy for dividend growth stocks - elected not to increase its dividend for the first time since the 1970's. …

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Tracking My Portfolio Income

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The best thing about being a dividend growth investor is watching your dividend income grow over time. As I have written about time and time again, the power of a dividend growth portfolio is the compounded growth that an investor receives . As new dividends come into the account from the companies paying dividends, those dividends should be plowed back into more shares of the best companies. Over time your number of shares grow. Also, with the right companies the actual company dividend also …

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Sold Some Dividend Cut Stocks

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In a recent post, I wrote about how I had altered my investing code to reflect that I would now be selling dividend stocks soon after a dividend cut. This is quite a departure for me as I traditionally had not sold stocks very often. However, given my primary objective to generate a reliable and growing stream of income from dividend stocks, stocks that cut their dividends do not allow me to achieve this goal and something must be done about it. There are really only two things that a …

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My Main Investment Objective: To Generate a Reliable, Growing Stream of Income from Stocks

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(This article originally appeared on The DIV-Net) Wow, these markets are in no way fun! I don't know about you, but I am sick of the volatility, the fear that we are seeing in the market, and the relentless pontification of the newspapers and media companies covering this like it is the end of the earth. These media companies love this kind of stuff because it sells paper. I however have decided to ignore as much of it as possible and stick to my main investment objectives. It is simple …

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Dividend Investing Overview via Video

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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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Where to Find Dividend Growth Rates

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On this blog, and other dividend investing blogs, we talk a lot about the dividend growth rate of the various companies we track. As part of good dividend analysis determining what the dividend growth rate has been is important, primarily because we need to see if the growth rate is accelerating or slowing. I have some suggestions for you to help determine these growth rates - the first one more difficult than the second but depends on the data available for the stock you are examining. …

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