Weekly Reading Links 4.26.13 + MORE

1. Why I Love Dividend Growth Investing @ Dividend Mantra.
2. Genuine Parts Company (GPC) Dividend Stock Analysis @ DGS.
3. Is Google or Amazon The New 21st Century Conglomerate? @ IS.
4. PepsiCo – Dividend Fact Sheet @ Dividend Engineering.
5. EZCorp As Pie @ Barel Karsan.
6. When to sell my dividend stocks? @ DGI…

Several months ago, Mike from Dividend Guy Blog sent me his book and asked me for a review. I did not receive any compensation for this review, other than a free copy of the US version of his dividend investing book. As a somewhat moderately read site, I do from time to time receive books for review…

Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/PacWest+Bancorp+%28PACW%29+Declares+%240.25+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+3.7%25+Yield/8282496.html for the full story.

Football is backkkkkkk! Ok maybe not quite, but I’m writing this while watching the NFL draft, loving it. I’ll certainly be ready when fall comes around. Not that I’m anxious about it yet, I do look forward to the summer but you know what I mean don’t you? Quick question…are any of you members of Audible? If so, anything to recommend for my next “reading” ?:)
That being said, here are some good readings
General Readings
-AP Twitter account hacked sends markets lower @ TheVerge
-Is the 60/40 asset allocation strategy dead? @ MarketWatch
-Should Bloomberg be afraid of Twitter? @ Fortune
Dividend/Passive Income Readings
-17 dividend stocks to look out for @ TheDividendGuyBlog
-Opportunity costs for dividend investors @ DividendGrowthInvestor
Tech Stock Readings
-Terrific discussion on pricing of ecosystems (FB, AAPL, GOOGL, etc) @ AboveTheCrowd
-Netflix (NFLX) now bigger than HBO? @ QZ
-Amazon’s app store doing very well @ TechCrunch
-Future of tv according to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings @ PaidContent
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Several months ago, Mike from Dividend Guy Blog sent me his book and asked me for a review. I did not receive any compensation for this review, other than a free copy of the US version of his dividend investing book. As a somewhat moderately read site, I do from time to time receive books for review…

A study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages shows that AutoZone, Inc. (NYSE: AZO) is the #78 broker analyst pick among those stocks screened by The Online Investor for strong stock buyback activity. To make that list, a stock must have repurchased at least 5% of its outstanding shares over the trailing twelve month period…

After scrupulous back-testing, I have elaborated a screening method for good-yielding dividend stocks, which has proven to perform much better than the main indexes of the U.S. stock markets. I used the Portfolio123’s powerful screener to perform the search and to run the back-test. All the data for this article were taken from Portfolio123…

April is always an interesting month on the markets, the preceding month to the infamous investing adage “Sell in May and go away”. Already we are seeing pressure on world stock prices, and global recessionary indicators. Markets have had a good run-up since June 2012. Both the DOW and TSX advanced to their five year highs, breaking their highs before the 2008 to 2009 Financial Crisis…