Stock Selection

There are a lot of different funds out there that focus on high yield dividend stocks. Not all of them are good and a lot of them charge very high management fees for the "privilege" of investing in them. One fund that doesn't charge a super high expense ratio is the Tweedy, Browne Worldwide High Dividend Yield Value Fund. The MER is not low at 1.53%, compared to Vanguard's funds. However, my purpose here is to not suggest investing in this fund. Instead, my purpose is to see what this fund …

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Want to identify a list of stocks to further analyze? This can be a tough thing to do given the huge number of stocks that exist. How do you decide which ones to focus on? Is there a quick way of doing an initial screen of companies that warrant the extra time to do a full and thorough analysis on? Last week, I presented one such method in the post title,"A Valuation Exercise: The Dividend Aristocrats". This post used the High Yield Dividend Aristocrats as a starting point and weeded out …

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Did you know that your fridge can hold the key to a well funded portfolio? I personally make money from my refrigerator every day. Every time I grab that Diet CokeI am contributing to the success of Coca-Cola and helping to ensure that my dividend payments continue to increase every year. Ok, so maybe I am stretching things a bit here, but I receive at least one email a day asking for investment ideas and wanted to present a 'cool' way to generate dividend investment ideas. Let's take a look …

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As a dividend investor, I consistently use the Dividend Achievers and Dividend Aristocrats list when coming up with potential future investment ideas. However, one thing that I have been doing lately is using online stock screens to further narrow down my search. It has been interesting because it has allowed me to really hone in on specific traits of a company that are important to my investment philosophy. I do not use these screens as a buy filter - just because the company shows up on the …

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I had a request from a reader to talk about one of the more prominent proponents of a dividend based investment strategy - Geraldine Weiss. Weiss is the editor of the dividend newsletter called Investment Quality Trends that focuses on buying blue-chip stocks whose dividend yields are near the high of their historical ranges and selling them when they drift lower. Although I have never been a subscriber to her newsletter, I have read her book, The Dividend Connection: How Dividends Create …

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