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Here’s How I Climbed on the Dividend Bandwagon

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There are few histories as crucial to the course of my life as my awakening to the power of compound interest and the importance of dividends. Since my decision to climb on the dividend bandwagon, I have been an evangelist to hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers, and many more investors beyond. My message has been consistent and clear, and I don’t regret focusing on dividends a bit. Here’s how it all started. Back to Monterey and Woodstock I’ve been developing investment strategies for investors like you before The Association kicked off the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival … [Read more...]

The Dividend King of the North

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Which Canadian stocks are dividend kings? If you go by the internet’s definition of a dividend king (50 consecutive years of dividend increases), there aren’t any dividend kings in Canada, but as we wrote here, there can only be one true dividend king. The Dividend King of the United States is Procter & Gamble. Procter & Gamble is the dividend king of the U.S. because it has increased its dividend annually for 65 consecutive years (tied for first with one other company). Who is the Canadian Dividend King? There aren’t any Canadian companies that meet the 50-year dividend king … [Read more...]

High Dividend Small Cap Stocks: Should You Invest?

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High dividend small-cap stocks can be a source of fresh dividend investing ideas, but just as buying the highest dividend paying large stocks can come with significant risk, so too does investing in high dividend small-cap stocks. Below we explain the opportunities and risks of high dividend small-cap stocks and provide a list of some of the highest dividend paying small-cap stocks. Historically small dividend stocks have outperformed large dividend stocks. The chart below compares the performance of small-cap dividend stocks to large cap dividend stocks. From year-end 1948 through … [Read more...]

You Must Find Investments that Fit Your Needs

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In the past, I've explained to investors that they need to find investments that fit their needs. You must measure your needs against what I referred to as a “complete understanding of where we are in terms of both the economic and monetary cycles.” I wrote: I am not looking for the investment markets to do anything for me. I long ago positioned myself to wade through any form of financial market dislocation. I always evaluate risk before potential returns. I invest with a complete understanding of where we are in terms of both the economic and monetary cycles. Where I would invest new money … [Read more...]

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

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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...]

Dividend Kings: Are Dividend Kings the Best Dividend Stocks to Buy?

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What are Dividend Kings, and should you invest in Dividend King stocks? You may have heard of Dividend Achievers or Dividend Aristocrats, but what exactly is a Dividend King? And are Dividend Kings the best stocks to buy? Dividend Kings seems to be an outgrowth of the Dividend Achievers and Dividend Aristocrats lists started by Moody’s and S&P. As a reminder, Dividend Achievers are companies that have increased their annual dividend payments every year for at least ten consecutive years. Dividend Aristocrats are S&P 500 companies that have increased their dividends for at … [Read more...]

Understanding Dividend Dates

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If you are new to dividend investing, divided dates may still be a bit of a puzzle to you. There are many different dividend dates to remember including the declaration date, the ex-dividend date, the date of record, and the payment date. What are they? We’ll explain all of the important dividend dates and what they mean for you. What is the Dividend Declaration Date? The calendar of dividend dates is actually made up of a number of different events, and the first is the declaration date, which happens weeks or months before the dividend itself is actually paid. On the declaration date, … [Read more...]

This is the Most Persuasive Test of High-Quality Investing: Does Your Portfolio Pass?

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Of all the ways you can test the holdings in your portfolio, Ben Graham codified what he called the most persuasive in his book Intelligent Investor. Companies paying dividends for 20 consecutive years were first on Graham’s list of high quality. I explained high quality to readers in August 2007, writing: Laurent & Villchur... Back in 1967, Acoustic Research’s demonstration room on Mount Auburn Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was ground zero for state-of-the-art high fidelity. My experiences in Cambridge led me to buy the Acoustic Research AR3 speakers and AR turntable that I am … [Read more...]

Dividends Win Today, They Won Yesterday, and They’ll Probably Win Tomorrow

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It’s been quite the run for dividend paying stocks as you can see in the performance of our Retirement Compounders, which sort of looks like bragging. Believe me I’m not. Imagine for a moment you have a pile of cash. Where are you going to put it? Into the S&P 500? A passive index fund? Not me. Legendary investor Jack Bogle, and now Michael Burry, whose story was immortalized in The Big Short as one of the first investors to call the subprime mortgage crisis, have expressed their concerns. “There no longer can be any doubt that the creation of the first index mutual fund … [Read more...]

Dividends Then and Now Are the Answer

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I learned from Ben Graham nearly six decades ago that there's no better way to assess an investment than the cold hard cash it returns to you in the form of dividends or interest. In September of 2012 I wrote: While at Babson College, I studied Ben Graham’s Security Analysis. I still return to it regularly. In Chapter 35, Ben Graham writes, “For the vast majority of common stocks, the dividend record and prospects have always been the most important factor controlling investment quality and value…. In the majority of cases, the price of common stocks has been influenced more markedly by the … [Read more...]