Dividend Basics

These Buckeyes Don’t Play College Football
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 […]

Stocks That Pay Monthly Dividends
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 […]

Build Your Own Dividend Stock Diversification Plan
Need to play it safe? A dividend stock diversification plan is nothing more than a simple way to protect your portfolio. The common sense balance gives you safety and performance. And it takes the edge off volatility. It softens the wild swings. The extremes of the market’s highs and lows are balanced with consistency. How […]

Dividend Payout Ratio Bombs Ready To Explode
Dividend payout ratio bombs ready to explode? What’s this all about? And what makes the dividend payout ratio so explosive? I’m about to show you three stocks that are likely to blow up. You might as well haul around a volatile mixture of NI-3. That’s the explosive amateur crackpots mix up using iodine and ammonia. […]

Dividend Investing Breakthroughs
Dividend investing breakthroughs aren’t usually the result of home runs from single stocks. Breakthrough dividend performance is a team effort. It’s putting together a lineup of different kinds of dividend stocks that work well together. Go with some of your dividend stocks that pay a yield below 3%, and some with higher yields in the […]

Dividend Reinvestment Plans
Dividend reinvestment plans are a way you can unlock the power of compounding. Dividend reinvestment plans compound your dividends, increase the number of shares of the dividend stocks in your portfolio, and exponentially drive your returns higher. Do these dividend reinvestment plans, usually called a DRIP, make sense for you? The DRIP takes the dividend […]