After a little bit more than 3 months on the stock market in 2017, we have already experienced our fair share of emotions. While the U.S. market peaked at +7.02% on March 1st, investors’ enthusiasm is fading away as the market is now up only +4.03% as at April 16th (yes, I’m writing this on Easter, a man has to work sometimes!). We are seeing a similar phenomenon on the Canadian market as it peaked at +4.15% on February 21st to drop to just +1.62% at the moment of writing this article. We …
The Dividend Lifestyle Portfolio Approach
A few weeks ago, a reader suggested that I write an article about buying dividend paying companies in line with one’s lifestyle. In other words, for each budget type of expense, you select a company that would “protect” you from potential inflation. While it will not replace any kind of serious portfolio-building models, the idea of having a company perform well when one of your expense area increases is not completely ridiculous either. For example, the best way to protect your budget from …
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Top 4 Dividend Stocks to Hold Now
In my latest article, I’ve highlighted 4 popular dividend stocks to sell. As I wrote at the end of this article, I don’t appreciate when people criticize without bringing something on the table. For this reason, I’m offering you 4 interest stock picks for 2017 that could easily replace the other bad seeds. Honeywell International (HON) Business model: Honeywell invents and manufactures technologies to address some of the world’s toughest challenges initiated by revolutionary macrotrends in …
Top 4 Popular Dividend Stocks to NOT Hold
Warning: be ready to be shocked by reading this article And I’m ready to take your tomatoes… even though I’m right ;-) Instead of making another list of great stock picks, I decided to do the opposite today. I actually wrote about these companies over the past 12 months telling investors to sell them now before it’s too late. What makes them special is that they have tons of fans as they are very popular dividend paying companies. They often ace the first filtering processes due to their …
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Valuation Model When The Market is Too High
Investing new money in the stock market hasn’t been an easy task for the past 2 years. We ran into our first market dip in 2016, boiled by investors’ worries. Then, clouds disappeared and opened the space for more sun to shine over the stock market. This is how both markets finished 2016 with great strength: Source: ycharts – dividend excluded While this is good news in the short term, investing in 2017 has been terribly difficult for most of us. Why? Because everything is …
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The Dividend Triangle – The Equation to Successful Dividend Growth Investing
Several investors spend years working on their investing model. They are somewhat convinced they will find the magic formula nobody did before. I sometimes have the feeling that investors are just looking everywhere but right in front of them. I’ve always managed my portfolio having the word “efficiency” in mind. When you think about it, dividend growth investing foundation is linked to only 3 pillars I call the “Dividend Triangle”. First, the company must make revenue. Without revenues, …
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