Dividend Growth Investing
Dividend Geek is Live!
We are excited to announce that we now have live data during market hours! Now after you login the ‘Check for Undervalued Stocks’ screening page will display the current discount to fair value percentages based on the current market stock price. For example, in the consumer discretionary sector shown below during market hours the current […]
Have Capital? Thoughts on Building Your Dividend Growth Portfolio
A Dividend Geek member recently asked me: “I have a 401K account that I am rolling over to a self-directed retirement account. My question to you, if you have $100,000 to invest immediately, how much would you put in each stock that meets the 20% below fair market value.” I have been asked similar questions […]
Financial Freedom – Part 1
Financial freedom or ‘FI’ the acronym for financial independence that is commonly used in the dividend growth investing blogshere, has been on my mind a lot lately. People have various definitions of FI or ideas of what this means to them. To me I have boiled it down to this: “Financial independence is when your […]
Announcing Dividend Geek v2.0
We are pleased to announce Dividend Geek 2.0! We have added 32 new dividend growth stocks to our existing dividend growth investment tools: – Income Machine Portfolio – Portfolio Sector Allocation – Finding Undervalued Stocks – Watch List Alerts This will allow members more opportunities to find and purchase great companies when they are trading […]
UNS Energy Corp (UNS) BOOM! Up 29%
Today Fortis announced an agreement to buy UNS Energy Corp (UNS) for $2.5 Billion. UNS is one of our original 50 best dividend growth stocks. The $60.25 per-share offer, which Fortis intends to pay in cash, is a 31% premium to UNS’s $45.84 closing price Wednesday. Congratulations if you choose to purchase UNS from our […]
How to Determine Near Term Market Support
In my previous post How to get your Minions working for you – Part 2 I discussed a ‘Buy on Dips’ strategy were you would consider to purchase one of our high quality dividend growth stocks when the market is within 20% of the near term market low (the dip). Just how do you determine […]
How to get your Minions working for you – Part 2
In part 1 of ‘How to get you Minions working for you’ we reviewed the value component of the Dividend Geek dividend growth stock investment strategy, where we prefer to buy dividend growth stocks near the 20% discount to fair value for a margin of safety. However, with the market at all time highs it […]
How to get your Minions working for you – Part 1
I like to think of my working capitol as my little minions. A dedicated army of invested dollars working hard to recruit more minions to work for me. Okay some people call it reinvested dividend income – I know boring huh. I like my minions! Lately with the market up 20% year to date this […]
Investing for Income – A Lesson from Grandpa
Grandpa got it right. He figured out the correct way to invest. He and Grandma started with nothing and retired as millionaires. Here’s how they did it. You might say my Grandpa Watkins had building in his blood coming from a long line of builders in his family dating back to his Grandfather who was […]