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Where To Find Dividend Growth In 2024

Where To Find Dividend Growth In 2024

| January 29, 2024

For dividend growth-focused investors, the 2020 coronavirus pandemic-triggered shutdown threw a monkey wrench into dividend income expectations. In response to the shutdown, companies stopped increasing dividends, cut dividend rates, or suspended dividends entirely. Four years after the shutdown, it’s time to see how dividend policies have changed… And where the next big dividend growth opportunities […]

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Dividend Capture Strategy: What You Need To Know

Dividend Capture Strategy: What You Need To Know

| June 8, 2022

A dividend capture strategy is an income-focused stock trading strategy that experienced traders also call “buying the dividend.” The dividend capture strategy means that you purchase stocks before their ex-dividend date. At this point, you hold onto them until the company issues its dividend payout. Day traders often utilize this strategy to make the most of dividend payouts. […]

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7 Types Of Assets For Your Income Investing Strategy

7 Types Of Assets For Your Income Investing Strategy

| September 1, 2021

Passive income might seem like a pipedream. Yet with time and dedication, it is possible. The key is income investing.  This post will explain what income investing is, explore the key things to consider when building your own income investing strategy, and provide seven different types of income investments.   What Is Income Investing?  All the […]

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Dividend Aristocrats That Dodge Disasters

Dividend Aristocrats That Dodge Disasters

| December 7, 2015 | 0 Comments

My good friend Large Lou Sapino is an expert on vodka. Not long ago he asked me about Russian stocks. (A few weeks ago I told him that investing in Russian stocks is a dividend disaster.) Lou also happens to be a very smart real estate investor. He told me that investing in land out […]

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Dividend Yield Essentials

Dividend Yield Essentials

| November 30, 2015 | 0 Comments

Do you know how much we spend on Christmas lights and decorations? $6 billion a year. By comparison, the Pentagon spends about $12 billion for an aircraft Carrier like the USS Ronald Reagan. The numbers are staggering, so huge they’re hard to make sense of. I like simpler numbers where the arithmetic is easy, and […]

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These Buckeyes Don’t Play College Football

These Buckeyes Don’t Play College Football

| November 16, 2015 | 0 Comments

You wake up in a cold sweat. It’s a nightmare that haunts you and hammers you with the raw hurt of hindsight. Hindsight is more than 20/20.  For investors, it’s both painful and helpful.  When we look back on an investment that didn’t work out, it’s way too easy to see what went wrong. What’s […]

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Dividend Payout Ratio Essentials

Dividend Payout Ratio Essentials

| October 19, 2015 | 0 Comments

Things are rarely as simple as they seem, and rarely as simple as we’d like them to be… Especially when it comes to investing in the best dividend stocks. You know what we should do? All of us who follow the market should start off the day with a stiff drink of humility. We should […]

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Stocks That Pay Monthly Dividends

Stocks That Pay Monthly Dividends

| October 12, 2015 | 0 Comments

Do you ever open up your electric bill and find yourself in a state of shock? Not me… it’s pretty much the same every month.  The only real curve I was thrown came a few months ago. That’s when a State of California windfall, the “California Climate Credit” drove my bill down to $12.66. Not […]

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How Dividend Reinvestment Plans Really Work

How Dividend Reinvestment Plans Really Work

| July 13, 2015 | 0 Comments

I’m not exactly jealous, but I sure am envious.  I’ll fess up and admit it. Back in 1955, Fred Schwed came up with the perfect title for a book… “Where Are the Customers’ Yachts?” The subtitle for Fred’s book is “A Good Hard Look at Wall Street.” Fred was a professional trader who lost a […]

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Dividend Payout Ratio Secrets

Dividend Payout Ratio Secrets

| May 18, 2015 | 0 Comments

Sounds boring, doesn’t it? Look… There’s no way to convince you the dividend payout ratio packs the excitement of a classic James Bond movie. (I have a soft spot for Casino Royale.) But here’s the deal. If a James Bond movie villain put a gun to your head, and forced you to choose just one […]

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