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Happy New Year! Are You Getting the Advice You Deserve?

January 4, 2023 By E.J. Smith

Did you make last year a good year? If you subscribed to my monthly Survive & Thrive letter, we got to know each other better and gained some perspective. This year will be no different. As my father-in-law, Dick Young, would write in his monthly newsletter Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report, “make it a good month” is a philosophy. Because this is an emotional time of year, I want you to keep your head about you. As I’ve written to you before, stock prices are qualitative. They’re opinions. Dividends are not. They are quantitative. They’re cold, hard cash. You can see them being … [Read more...]

Your Survival Guy’s Investment Cave for the Winter

December 23, 2022 By E.J. Smith

Much of your investment success comes from avoiding disasters like crypto exchange FTX. The Fear of Missing Out or FOMO is a huge pull, like gravity, on investors. Look, I’m Your Survival Guy, not Superman, but FOMO’s like kryptonite. It saps the power of self-control and “knowing better” right out of investors, and it comes when you least expect it. If you’ve been with me, this has been a good year. But it’s been downright brutal for the non-dividend paying stocks that mainly comprise the Nasdaq and the tech sector within the S&P 500. The ride up is always more fun than the crash. But … [Read more...]

Procter & Gamble (PG) Stock: The Only True Dividend King

November 25, 2022 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

Dividend Kings like Procter & Gamble (PG) are companies that have increased their dividend for at least 50 consecutive years. By Andrii Yalanskyi @ Shutterstock.com Kings is an unfortunate label for a group of stocks, though. There can only be one true king, and if we are talking U.S. stocks with long records of annual dividend growth, Procter & Gamble stock (PG) is the only true Dividend King. P&G has increased its dividend for 64 consecutive years. That ties Procter & Gamble stock with American States Water (AWR) for a record number of consecutive annual dividend … [Read more...]

The Highest Yielding Dow Stocks

September 30, 2022 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

For investors looking for high-yielding dividend stocks to buy, the highest dividend payers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a common starting point. Below is a list of the 10 highest yielding Dow stocks. Today, the average yield of the 10 highest-yielding Dow Jones Industrial Averages stocks is 4.94%. You can see their individual yields in the table below. Click the company name for more information on each stock. To view the entire list of Dow stocks ranked by yield, click here.   Highest Yielding Dow Jones Industrial Average Stocks Company … [Read more...]

The Highest Yielding S&P 500 Stocks

September 30, 2022 By Jeremy Jones, CFA

If you are on the hunt for yield, the top 10 highest-yielding S&P 500 stocks are a tempting place to look for new ideas. Compared to the less than 1.6% yield offered by investing in an S&P 500 index fund, the average yield of the highest 10 dividend-paying S&P 500 stocks is 6.25%. The list below includes the 10 highest yielding S&P 500 stocks along with their indicated dividend yield. Click the company name for more information on each stock. Highest Yielding S&P 500 Stocks Company NameYieldPioneer Natural Resources Co. (PXD)14.81%Lumen Technologies … [Read more...]

You’ve Created Your Own Kingdom, Your Everlasting Life

September 21, 2022 By E.J. Smith

What can we learn about lifelong wealth from the passing of Queen Elizabeth II? For one, as I wrote to you yesterday, “to do nothing is the hardest job of all.” If you think about your lifelong endeavor of compounding, like I most certainly do in my life, then you rise above the day-to-day noise like a heavenly spirit. You see life for what it is, a gift. A gift to be cherished. Because your gift can live on forever in the name of your children, your children's children, and theirs. When you separate your emotions from your money, you’ll find it will be difficult to separate it from … [Read more...]

Your Survival Guy’s Got Quarters in His Loafers Tryin’ to Fight Inflation

September 14, 2022 By E.J. Smith

Are we having fun yet? If you’re with me, and I hope you are, I know you don’t love big swings in the stock market. But, at the end of the day, prices are opinions, and based on the state of the world, opinions are in no shortage in the supply chain. Could Railroad Strikes Cripple the Already Suffering Supply Chain? Your Survival Guy’s got quarters in his loafers tryin’ to fight inflation. Inflation at 8.3%? You and I know it’s much higher in many areas of our life. You know that no matter who wins in November, spending in Washington is not going to stop. The executive branch is … [Read more...]

Nowadays, Everyone Is Getting Some Dividend Religion

May 25, 2022 By E.J. Smith

Do you have dividend religion? Do you need some? Stock trends come and go, but dividends meet the test of time. Put father time on your side and put the miracle of compound interest to work for you. Karen Langley and Gunjan Banerji report in The Wall Street Journal on the market’s big boost for dividend stocks, writing: Cash is king right now. The latest evidence: the market’s embrace of dividend-paying stocks over another longtime favorite, firms that do buybacks. Investors are rushing to companies promising regular payouts to shareholders, a sign of Wall Street’s hunger for cash in … [Read more...]

MARKET CHAOS: This May Take Time, Here’s How to Prepare

May 12, 2022 By E.J. Smith

Do yourself a favor. Take a vacation (everyone else is, trust me). Turn off your phone, your computer, your TV, and take a mental break from your investments for a minute. Because in times like these, and they’re quite the times, it never ceases to amaze me how all of a sudden investors get “serious” about their money. They stay up late, study hard, and pull all-nighters trying to figure it “all” out. Come on. Are you kidding me? One of your greatest assets as a successful, long-term investor is the ability to keep your cool while others lose theirs. And as Your Survival Guy, I’m not going … [Read more...]

You Can Do Better than Mutual Funds and ETFs with Your Cash

May 5, 2022 By E.J. Smith

You know how I feel about Fidelity and Vanguard. Great custodians, but there’s a better mousetrap than the mutual funds and ETFs they sell for stock investing. That’s why I favor individual dividend-paying stocks with a track record of consistent dividend increases. Do not take this as a call to immediately sell your mutual funds/ETFs, but it may be time for a revisit. How? Maybe look at your lazy money sitting on your couch, eating your ice cream, and doing nothing. Let’s go. Wake up. Get it out the door. Beat inertia. Dividend investing isn’t a fad. It’s always in style if you care about … [Read more...]

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