Dividend Growth Investing
18 Core Dividend Growth Stocks to Strengthen Your Portfolio
Dividend growth investing by its nature is a conservative long-term investing methodology. But, with all of the recent uncertainty in the world (maybe this election cycle is getting to me) I have felt the need to bolster my portfolio with additional strength. I decided to review the companies listed in my current prospective dividend growth […]
Hershey buy out bid and other fair value estimates
This week Mondelez (MDLZ), the international company know for its Cadbury chocolate, made a $23 Million takeover bid for Hershey (HSY), which came to $107 per share of Hershey stock. Prior to the bid announcement, Hershey had been trading below Moringstar’s fair value estimate of $103 in the $90-$98 range for the past five months. […]
10 New Dividend Growth Stocks Worth Watching
After recently looking over the the list of 50 Dividend Aristocrats. I decided to look over all companies that have raised their dividends for 17 or more years in search for companies that I’m not already watching that would make good dividend growth stocks. Companies that I would be willing to purchase at the right […]
Dividend Aristocrats outperform S&P 500 by 8% annually over past 10 years
I recently read two articles about how the Dividend Aristocrats have outperformed the market. You may have heard of Dividend Champions which is a compilation that most dividend growth investor use, but not Divided Aristocrats. Both Dividend Champions and Dividend Aristocrats cover stocks with 25 or more consecutive years of dividend increases. So what’s the […]
Fair Value Update and 6 Dividend Growth Stocks added to the Watchlist
The following dividend growth stocks received fair value increases by Morningstar for the week ending 4/8/2016. APD from $140 to $146 CAH from $73 to $79 MCD from $122 to $128 There were several significant decreases in fair value as well mostly in the down beaten oil patch: CL from $73 to $71 CVX from […]
Balancing my Portfolio Sector Weighting
This past winter the collapse of oil prices and the reduced forecasts in global growth (mainly China) have brought about some deep bargains in the Energy and Industrial sectors. During the sell off I purchased a little too much of a good thing. In doing so my portfolio became overweight in these sectors and too […]
New Tools and Cisco Systems
New Tools I have recently added two new tools that I use to help identify buying opportunities. The first is my Watchlist and the second is a 10×10 scoring chart developed by David Van Knapp. They are both listed on the main menu. Once you go to the page scroll down to the bottom to […]
101 Dividend Investing Tips from the experts
I was recently offered the opportunity to provide some investing tips for an article edited by Jimmy Atkinson of Dividend Reference entitled: “101 Dividend Investing Tips from the experts“. He surveyed 49 dividend investing experts and compiled the best 101 tips. Whether you are an experienced investor or just beginning you will find excellent advice […]
7 New Dividend Growth Stocks
I just completed my annual search for high quality companies that qualify for the Dividend Geek Best Dividend Growth Stocks List. I was able to find seven new stocks that met our rigorous selection criteria: 10 or more years of consecutive dividend increases (in some cases we will consider exceptional companies that have achieved 7+ […]
Adding Kinder Morgan to our Best Dividend Growth Stock List
We are adding Kinder Morgan (KMI) to our Best Dividend Growth Stock list following the announcement of a plan to consolidate Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (KMP), Kinder Morgan Management (KMR), and El Paso Pipeline Partners (EPB) into a single corporation. The consolidation announcement on Monday (Aug 11) sent shares of (KMI) rocketing up 9% from […]