High-Yield REITs With Growing Dividends + MORE

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In his bestseller Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell explained the idea that success in many fields comes from factors that may be unusual in the population at large, but that are quite common among the outliers themselves.

Dividend growth stocks are usually considered to be boring, “defensive” investments…

Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, on 4/24/13, Core Laboratories N.V. (NYSE: CLB) will trade ex-dividend, for its quarterly dividend of $0.32, payable on 5/24/13. As a percentage of CLB’s recent stock price of $141.11, this dividend works out to approximately 0.23%. Click here to learn which 25 S…

Kinder Morgan is the largest midstream company in North America, with over 73,000 miles of pipelines and 180 terminals. The pipelines transport oil, natural gas, CO2 and other products. The terminals handle a variety of products such as gasoline, jet fuel, ethanol, coal, coke, steal and others.

As I outlined in an earlier article, there are three ways to invest in Kinder Morgan…

U.S. REITs were created in 1960 by Congress as a way for all investors to have access to large-scale, income-producing real estate. To qualify as a REIT, the trust must comply with IRS rules. These rules include: 1) distributing annually as dividends at least 90% of its taxable income, 2) investing at least 75% of its total assets in real estate and 3) deriving at least 75% of gross income from real estate…

Dividend growth investing is an investment strategy whereby an investor primarily focuses on stocks that pay dividends, and have a history of raising those dividends on a consistent basis. Taking this a step further, most dividend growth investors then hone in on businesses that have stable operations, responsible uses of debt with low debt ratios, economies of scale and manufacture and/or sell products or services that people/other businesses want or need on an everyday basis…

I’ve been pretty vocal about Apple (AAPL) in the past few years, mostly being very bullish which has served me very well. I did also make several picks involving Apple and generally did very well with it. Today however, I am taking a position which is much more meaningful. Those who follow this blog know that I divide my investments into a few different buckets, the main ones being:
-Retirement accounts: dividend focused stocks and ETF passive income strategy
-Long & short tech stocks (which I present here)
-Longer term speculative stocks
Today, I will be opening a position on Apple in that third category…