Dividend Basics

The First Rule Of Successful REIT Investing
You and I know why people buy real estate investment trusts (REITs). They’re income machines that are literally mandated to take the lion’s share of their profits and put them back into shareholders’ hands as cash dividends. It’s no secret. Just about anyone who buys into REITs know that they produce far bigger dividends than your typical […]

Buy These 5 High-Yield Dividend Stocks Going Ex-Div Next Week
I receive a lot of questions concerning dividend dates. Income investors can help their overall returns by understanding when shares must be owned to be entitled to receive the next dividend payment. Buying shares of a stock after it goes ex-dividend means you won’t receive the next declared dividend payment. You can quickly have cash […]

How Building Wealth With Dividend Investing Works
The goal of most investors is to some day build enough wealth in order to stop working and do what they enjoy. The problem is that doing so takes a large amount of wealth built over time, something that may seem far-fetched to a young investor. However, by investing in dividend stocks diligently over time […]

6 Steps To Build Your Dividend Growth Portfolio
We believe that dividend growth investing is one of the most powerful investing strategies for building long-term wealth. This article will explain how you can easily build a high-quality dividend growth portfolio with no prior experience. Step #1: Choosing The Right Stock Broker The methods that investors use to purchase stocks have changed tremendously over […]

Dividend Yield Or Dividend Growth, Which Is The Most Important?
This is a guest contribution by Robert Kovacs. Robert Kovacs is the founder of uuptick.com, a premium stock analysis platform for retail investors. He is also an author on Seeking Alpha where he periodically publishes DGI investment research. Fellow dividend growth investors (DGIers), how many times have you read online that you shouldn’t chase dividend yield […]

The Blueprint For Successful Dividend Investing
This is a guest post by Nick McCullum from Sure Dividend. Sure Dividend uses The 8 Rules of Dividend Investing to systematically identify and rank high-quality dividend growth stocks suitable for long-term investment. Dividend growth investing is one of the most straightforward and powerful ways to build long-term wealth. It can also seem highly complicated to those without […]