Dividend Ratios Pt. 2: How to Identify Sustainable Dividend Growth
As we discussed in part 1 of this dividend mini-series, there is much focus on the past dividend growth of a stock– yet this doesn’t give a complete picture on well a company really performed. Go back to part 1 to get background on WHY we need a better metric to measure a stock’s dividend […]
Dividend Ratios Pt. 3: Measuring a Stock’s True Dividend Payout Ratio
Measuring how much a company is growing in size, and how much it has grown its dividend, is only one part to finding great dividend growth investments. Just like many metrics used today don’t consider both aspects of sustainable growth (as we discussed in the part 2 of this dividend ratio series), there’s a part […]
Dividend Ratios Pt. 4: Combining Two New Metrics & Putting It All Together
In part 1 of this dividend ratios series, I reviewed some of the most common metrics used by dividend investors today, and what these metrics lack in telling us the entire picture of a company. Parts 2 and 3 introduced two dividend ratios to better evaluate how a company truly performed and how this translated […]
High Dividend Stocks: The Risks and Double Compounding Potential
A stock that can grow their dividend payments over time consistently provides compounding like no other opportunity. Naturally, investors try to maximize this compounding by searching for high dividend stocks. It’s a great idea but it comes with some hidden dangers. Let’s be clear. It doesn’t take much reading of this site to figure out […]
The Magic of Dividend Champions
Dividend-paying companies are the backbone of value investing. Besides the fact that they are consistently delivering a dividend payment, most of the time they are also raising their annual dividend payment. Also, although most investors believe that great dividends come with expensive price tags, the truth of the matter is that often the market cap […]
A Beginners Guide to the Dividend Growth Rate
The following is a guest post from Blaine Watkins at Dividend Geek. Blaine is a voracious reader of investing books and has been educating himself about the subject for decades. His philosophy aligns with much of what I teach, mainly finding stocks at a discount to intrinsic value and reinvesting the growing dividend. One of […]
How to Find Good Dividend Stocks: 3 Metrics
It’s easy to find plenty of websites willing to share a “top ten” list of good dividend stocks for the year. Yet it’s much harder to find actual useful lessons that will help you in the long term. This frustrates me. Getting a quick tip about one good dividend stock won’t help anyone towards their […]
The Importance of Stocks with Dividends- Even Small Dividends
One of the biggest hurdles to stock market investing is a mindset shift. Many beginners can’t get their heads around the reasons to buy stocks with small dividends. And I don’t blame them. After all, how can you get excited about a $1.15 payment that takes a year to accumulate? While on the surface, a […]
5 Dividend Investing Success Stories
History can teach us a lot. I’ve shown just how much we can learn from mistakes past with the bankruptcy research, and now I want to flip the script. Let’s examine 5 case studies of the most successful dividend investing stories from the last 2.5 decades. While we can’t expect to follow these guidelines exactly, […]
