Dividend Reads for the Weekend

You probably notice I wasn’t around much over the past three weeks. This was because a LOT happened during that period. During the first week, I was on vacation with my family. We had a great time in Sandbridge (near Virginia Beach) and we even went to see a baseball game (Go Tides!). The week after, my kids started school as I was going back to work and I told my boss I’m taking a sabbatical in 2016 (more on that next week). And this week… well. We accepted an offer on our house! If all go well, we will be homeless on October 30^th! Joking… we’ll be living in my mother’s basement and in our RV during the weekends. Next step: leaving everything behind in June 2016!

But I’m back this week with more articles:

6 Dividend Aristocrats Getting Hurt… and More!

Dividend Stocks Do Worse

Eli Lilly stock analysis

Interesting Reads:

Bert @ Dividend Diplomats explains why it is important to have a watch list ready. The month of August offered plenty opportunities, but you can’t just get into the market like you walk in a store during Black Friday!

My Dividend Growth had his watch list ready! He bought several stocks! I like his shopping list a lot!

Dividend Growth Journey bought Unilever (UN).

Dividend Family Guy writes about investing 250K… but we are not talking about the stock market here. This is actually the cost of raising a kid these days… Hum… this means I could have been millionaire since I have 3 kids! Hahaha! Congrats to DFG for his new little daughter!

Mark @ My own advisor explains how he manages his DIY portfolio. We share several similarities!

Great start for Pollie and his new series about teaching money to kids. I started myself with my two oldest children about a year ago. I’m not getting ready to the point where I’ll teach them how to invest. My son followed the offer – counter offer process for our house.

Dear Dividend gave himself a raise of $2,170. Good articles on how cutting small expenses could add up to big money.

Dividend Growth Investor digs deeper on metrics we usually use to analyze a company. It’s a great lesson for those who simply look at screeners. Numbers hide other things. The P/E ratio is a great example as future earnings might be very low and therefore, the current P/E ratio is skewed.

And a Special Mention To…

Aylan, the little boy who drown and his picture on the beach was published across the world. Yesterday, I was on training all day and I had no access to the internet. On the radio, I heard about the story but didn’t the picture. Yesterday night, it was our first soccer playoff game. We dominated the game, but lost in penalty since it was a tied game. When I went back home, I was pretty upset to lose this way while we had so many chances. My son and I were frustrated. Then, I opened my computer for the very first time and skimmed through the news.

I saw the picture of little Aylan lying on the beach.

I saw my own little Caleb who’s 3 just like Aylan.

This struck me like a brick thrown to my face: we often give lots of importance to small things and we often give little attention to the important things in our life.

I grabbed my three kids in my arms and told them I love them so much. This is the important thing. Once again, the meaning of leaving everything behind and live with my family for a year makes complete sense.

Sorry, this is a very personal note, but it matters to me. I hope you will have a chance to spend great time with people you love this weekend!

Mike

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