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On Monday, I discussed how I modified my filter in the search of the best US dividend stocks. What I like about the US market is its size and diversification. You can “easily” find great dividend stocks across different sectors and complete your asset allocation without much trouble. Well when I ran the same filters on the Canadian market, I wasn’t able to get 49 great picks. In fact, I was only able to get 13 dividend stocks that made the grade with the following criteria: - Dividend yield …

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Back in August, I created a filter to find the best US dividend stocks. My criteria were the following: - Dividend yield over 3% - Stock price over $10.00 - Payout Ratio under 60% Then, with your comments, I decided to pull out another search for the Top US dividend stocks by changing my filters for the following: - Dividend yield over 3% - Maximum dividend yield 7% - Payout Ratio under 60% - Dividend growth (min 5% annualized growth over 5 years) - P/E ratio under …

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We are quickly heading into the last quarter of 2010 while the stock market has been boiling for the past couple of weeks. After the worries generated by the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) back in May and the enormous US deficit, investors seem to be comforted by the good news coming from US companies. When we talk about good news, we also talk about dividend stocks maintaining or increasing their dividends. So let’s take a look at what happened in Q3 2010 in the world of …

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I recently met with one of my friends who is an investment broker. We were talking about the US stock market and how there are plenty of investing opportunities for dividend investors at the moment. This is when he showed me his dividend holdings. He explained to me that since most US stocks are undervalued right now, the chances of building a high paying dividend stock portfolio is very good. Since most of you have already have a great dividend portfolio, I thought of sharing his and give you …

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It is no longer a secret to any investor, the best banks in the world are found in Canada. We have only 6 “big banks” and one of them (National Bank; TSE: NA) is established mostly in only one province (therefore really a regional bank). This interesting banking model established a long time ago is controlled by the tight federal laws. This ensures that big banks don’t take huge risks and therefore, they maintain solid balance sheets. As of October 1st , the average dividend yield offered …

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Investing is a very strange activity. While it should be totally based on rationale, it often produces emotions such as anxiety, greed, paranoia and anger. On better days it produces joy, pride and… sometimes… love… Yup, you can fall in love with a stock. I think it’s even worse with dividend stocks! Falling in love with a stock requires time and good results (read profits!). Since dividend investing is based on a long term model and aims for constant income; you get the perfect …

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