Recent Blog Posts
What young people should do
Yesterday a friend shared with me a short article chalk full of the most amazing advice for young people. I was so impressed that I just have to pass it along to you. If you’re not young enough to take advantage of this I challenge you to share it with your kids or some young […]
Clorox Rasies Dividend for 37th Consecutive Year
Clorox bleach – I have a big bottle of it in my laundry room, odds are you do too. Clorox announced a $0.74 quarterly dividend today payable Aug 8 for shareholders of record on July 23. That’s a 4.2% raise from the previous $0.71 quarterly dividend. I know, not a spectacular dividend growth rate for […]
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 […]
QualComm Hits it out of the Park
One of our Dividend Geek best dividend growth stocks in the technology sector Qualcomm (QCOM) announced the following today: – A 20% increase in the Company’s quarterly cash dividend – A $5.0 billion increase in its stock repurchase authorization. The cash dividend will increase from $0.35 to $0.42 per share of common stock and will […]
Beating Inflation & February Dividend Increases
Several of our dividend growth companies increased their dividend payouts to investors during the month of February. Ideally we want to build a portfolio that averages a 10% dividend increase. Their are many great benefits to this strategy, most notably is that you increase the rate by which you compound your assets during your accumulation […]
2013 Results – Dividend Geek Portfolio
Happy New Year! It’s that time of year to review how well we have done towards achieving our goals and following our strategy. Notice that I didn’t say how much the market went up or if we beat the market (S&P 500 index). As a dividend growth investor I am focused on my ultimate objective […]
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 […]