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10 Handpicked Dividend Growth Stocks Increasing Payout by More Than 20%

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At the beginning of each year, I like to pull out a search from my stock screener using my favorite investing metrics. One of them is obviously to find stocks with aggressive dividend growth over the past five years. I revisited this list not so long ago and handpicked 10 high growth dividend stocks from the past five years. They may be of interest if you are looking for big dividend payment increases!   #10 KLA-Tencor Corp (KLAC) +23.24%   KLA-Tencor supplies process controls …

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How Strong are my 2012 Predictions 18 months later?

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    I always thought dividend growth investing was about selecting extremely solid companies that will increase their dividend over time. Companies that increase their sales, earnings and dividend payments year after year while keeping a relatively low payout ratio will eventually gain value within an investor portfolio. I’m also a big believer that time will be on the investor’s side as the compounding effect will work its magic. That all happens for everyone… who has set a …

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What if The Dividend Payout Ratio Was Bogus? How About Using Free Cash Flow?

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  After completing a session of “Dividend Questions from the Mailbag” a few weeks ago, I enjoyed a very interesting discussion with one of my readers, Robert from Dividend Growth Investing. We were looking at the popular way of taking the payout ratio as a good indication to determine a company’s ability to distribute its dividend over time.   Those who follow this blog know that this is the metric I use personally when I filter stocks to select the best according to my …

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Is It Time To Say Goodbye to Canadian Banks and Switch Over to US financials?

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    For the past decade and a little bit longer, Canadian Banks have been a model of stable growth and security for investors. Their profits grow at the same rhythm as their dividend growth and they never jeopardized their financial health for the sake of investors’ greed. They were accused of being boring and conservative for several years until the market crashed in 2008. At that time, Canadians banks rose in the rankings to the top of the world’s safest banks as they found the …

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Why Dividend Investing Will Always Be Better Than Buying the Entire Stock Market

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    I’ve read a lot of comments about the potential dividend bubble for the past 12 months. Some investors are afraid to see so much money leaving bonds and money market funds to be piled into dividend paying stocks. Most investors are craving for revenue and dividend stocks are pretty much the answer to this desire… unless they continue to starve with their bonds and CDs paying less interest than I pay my kids!   But the fact remains: dividend investing is far more …

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6 Dividend Stocks to Buy in Order to Profit from the Stock Squeeze

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  Some investors sell in May and go away while others think the current rally can’t continue forever. “The stock market is high enough, there is a correction ahead”. I guess I’m one of those investors who believes strongly that the rally will continue throughout the rest of the year.   As I wrote in my article “Stock Squeeze! Look For All The Money You Can Invest in The Stock Market”, I believe we are in a perfect situation for investors: Money is moving from bonds to …

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