(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 …
Dividend Investing Overview via Video
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 The video is a little bit outdated in terms of the stocks mentioned but it still worse listening to.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
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. …
Can You Predict Dividend Payments into the Future?
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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A Review of My Yearly Dividend Income
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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Top 5 Ways to Lose Money in Stocks
In a recent series of articles, I challenged a number of other investing and personal finance bloggers to present us with their choice for the top 3 investing mistakes an investor can make. I did some additional thinking of the items on these lists and determined what I believe to be the top 5 ways an investor can lose money in the stocks. By not understanding and structuring your portfolio so that you avoid all 5 of these, you can limit your ability to be a successful investor. Number 1 …
