Recent Blog Posts
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 […]
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 […]
Dividend Growth Pay Raises – Feb 2013
I am pleased to announce that during February six companies on the Dividend Geek top 50 dividend growth stocks list raised their dividends! In fact, all but one company raised their dividends by double digit percentages. If you own any of these stocks you just got a very nice pay raise! I don’t know about […]
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 […]
New Feature – Expand/Collapse Portfolio Views
Subscribers to the Dividend Geek service we are happy to announce that we added the ability to expand and collapse the portfolio view on the ‘Update Your Income Machine’ page. The default view is the expanded view of all 50 of our best dividend growth stocks. Whenever you add a new position to your portfolio […]