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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. When you need to blow your nose, what do you ask for? Most people ask for a Kleenex and Kleenex is a brand owned by the Kimberly-Clark Corporation. What we really asking for a tissue, however Kleenex has done such a good job of associating tissues with the Kleenex brand it is something we …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. One stock I have never looked at or even considered as a dividend candidate was The McGraw-Hill Companies. I only really knew them as the textbook publisher, however they are a much more diversified holding company than I ever thought. McGraw-Hill brings us such well know brands as …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. Remember playing with Mr. Potato Head as a child. Well, apparently millions of kids STILL play with it and the maker of these toys has been posting performance to prove it as of late. Hasbro has posted some very strong earnings and sales growth in the past, and overall the toy industry is …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. One sector of the market that I have not examined in great detail is Food & Restaurants. Awhile back I did an analysis of McDonald's, but have not touched the sector since. I also do not have any exposure to this sector in my portfolio so I am considering it as a possible area to add. One …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. Having lived in Saskatchewan when I was a young lad, I heard about this huge company called Potash Corp. My family even had friends who worked there so I remember vividly going to one of their locations and seeing the mountains of this white snow-like stuff all over the place. That was …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. As a shareowner of Wal-Mart, I am not looking to add another general merchandise and food discount store to my portfolio. However, as a stock that has a place on the Dividend Aristocrat list I wanted to have a look at it. 25 years of dividend increases is nothing to sneeze at and the people …

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