Enbridge Energy Partners Named Top Dividend Stock With Insider Buying and 7.51% Yield + MORE

Its always kind of a bad day when you have to give that big cheque for rent. I mean why is it costing that much only to have a root under my head? Toooo bad. A couple of hundred bucks just gone with the wind.I was all so happy yesterday: just like magic, my non-registered portfolio was hitting back the 120k! I never taught I was going to hit it again anytime soon…

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Well, the time has come to update the Freedom Fund

once again as we start another month. The Freedom Fund is my
portfolio, and I think it’s aptly named. My portfolio is my
way to freedom; freedom from a traditional 40-year career to
purchase goods I don’t need to impress neighbors I don’t care about…

Vodafone Group Plc (VOD) provides mobile telecommunication services worldwide. It offers mobile voice services to approximately 447 million customers; messaging services; mobile data services; fixed broadband services; and whole sale carrier services. This international dividend achiever has consistently raised dividends every year since dividends were paid in 1989…

In this series, we look through the most recent Dividend Channel ”DividendRank” report, and then we cherry pick only those companies that have experienced insider buying within the past six months. The officers and directors of a company tend to have a unique insider’s view of the business, and presumably the only reason an insider would choose to take their hard-earned cash and use it to buy stock in the open market, is that they expect to make money — maybe they find the stock very undervalued, or maybe they see exciting progress within the company, or maybe both…

On the first day of each month, I create a quick dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates…

Oneok Partners LP is a large midstream natural gas partnership with assets throughout the central United States.

-Distribution Yield: 5.10% -Seven Year Distribution Growth Rate: 7.1%-Credit Rating: BBB, Stable Investment Grade

Overall, I view OKS as one of the better income investments on the market currently, with an appealing combination of yield and growth at a reasonable valuation…

As most of you know, I do have a fairly significant position in Facebook, as one of my longer term speculative picks. I’m up 35% or so on the trade but the goal was obviously to do a lot better. That being said, with Facebook announcing its quarterly earnings yesterday after the close, it’s a good time for me to revisit my trade…