Starwood Hotels & Resorts Takes Over #273 Spot From Northern Trust + MORE

Dividend Stocks: A Great Addition To Your Portfolio – dividends4life.com Dividend stocks can be a great addition to your portfolio, especially pharmaceutical dividend stocks that offer a bit of stability in rocky times. People still get sick during recessions. And the dividend allows investors to be patient, collecting the dividend while they wait for drugs to be developed… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Starwood Hotels & Resorts Takes Over #273 Spot From Northern Trust – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel In the latest look at the underlying components of the S&P 500 ordered by largest market capitalization, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc (NYSE:...

Book Review: The Little Book That Still Beats the Market + MORE

My mini-Berkshire strategy for selling insurance through puts and calls – dividendgrowthinvestor.com I view myself as a mini Berkshire Hathaway. Every month, I get some cash flow that needs to be invested. My sources of cash flow include money I saved from my day job salary, dividends and some money from side hustles. I used to view my side hustle income as something that is similar to investing in newspapers, but lately the cashflow from it has been similar to what Buffett experienced for 20… Continue Reading On dividendgrowthinvestor.com » Idacorp Moves Up In Market Cap Rank, Passing Apollo Group...

Looking For That Next Dividend Sustainable Stock + MORE

Hexcel Moves Up In Market Cap Rank, Passing Goodyear Tire & Rubber – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel In the latest look at stocks ordered by largest market capitalization, Russell 3000 component Hexcel Corp. (NYSE: HXL) was identified as having a larger market cap than the smaller end of the S&P 500, for example Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (NASD: GT), according to The Online Investor. Click here to find out the top S&P 500 components ordered by average analyst rating » Continue Reading On forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel » With Dividend Stocks, Go Big or Go Home – dividends4life.com When investing in dividend stocks, reach for...

Four Select Dividend Increases of Note + MORE

NACCO Industries (NC) Declares $0.25 Quarterly Dividend; 2% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/NACCO+Industries+%28NC%29+Declares+%240.25+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+2%25+Yield/8314789.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com » Foot Locker Inc: Fundamental Stock Research Analysis – thediv-net.com Before analyzing a company for investment, it’s important to have a perspective on how well the business has performed.  Because at the end of the day, if you are an investor, you are buying the business.  The FAST Graphs™ presented with this article will focus first on the business behind the stock… Continue Reading On thediv-net.com » Four Select Dividend Increases of Note – dividendgrowthinvestor.com I track...

Dividend Investing – Telecom, Real Estate and Energy + MORE

Sell in May and Go Away? Worst Investing Advice or Sound Investment Choice? – thedividendguyblog.com     It’s fun to see how a serious field like investing comes with these semi-astrological predictions…   There is an old saying telling investors to sell in May and come back in October. This is the result if you follow the “Sell in May and Go Away” along with “Buy back on Saint Crispin’s Day” which is in late October… Continue Reading On thedividendguyblog.com » STAG Industrial (STAG) Declares $0.30 Quarterly Dividend; 5.4% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/STAG+Industrial+%28STAG%29+Declares+%240.30+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+5.4%25+Yield/8309420.html for the full story....

High-Yield Stocks with Strong Buy Rating + MORE

High-Yield Stocks with Strong Buy Rating – dividends4life.com I’m often asked if I would recommend to buy high-yielding stocks. I answer them that it makes sense to buy stocks with a yield over five percent but don’t expect that they will pay the dividend to the end of your lifetime and don’t expect that they will hike their payments each year or with a higher growth rate… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Dividend Link Time – thedividendguyblog.com Let’s jump right into the links: 1. Spotting the Red Flags of Investment @ The Passive Income Earner. 2. Will You Sell And Go Away? @ Dividend...

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

TD Visa now charge a 1% fee on credit card balance transfer – myfirst50000.com 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… Continue Reading On myfirst50000.com » Robert Half International, Inc. (RHI) Declares $0.16 Quarterly...

Avoid No-Growth Dividend Stocks + MORE

Avoid No-Growth Dividend Stocks – dividends4life.com When building a dividend growth portfolio many people look at how many consecutive years a company has increased its dividend. A company that has raised its dividend every year for 50 consecutive years, for example, is likely to continue the practice. But this record of consistency alone is not enough to justify a place in my Ultimate Dividend Growth Portfolio, a paper portfolio which you can Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Seagate Technology (STX) Declares $0.38 Quarterly Dividend; 4.1% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/Seagate+Technology+%28STX%29+Declares+%240.38+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+4.1%25+Yield/8295321.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com...

Be Fraud Aware: Protect Your Money + MORE

Be Fraud Aware: Protect Your Money – dividendninja.com This post has been written on behalf of the B.C. Securities Commission, to bring awareness to the – Be Fraud Aware app. Investment fraud isn’t something we consider until it is on the front-page news and media. But investment fraud is more common place than unsuspecting investors may realize… Continue Reading On dividendninja.com » Gladstone Capital (GLAD) Passes Through 9% Yield Mark – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel Looking at the universe of stocks we cover at Dividend Channel, in trading on Tuesday, shares of Gladstone Capital Corporation (NASD: GLAD) were yielding above the 9% mark...

Escalade, Inc. (ESCA) Declares $0.08 Quarterly Dividend; 5.6% Yield + MORE

Today was the first day of the summer in Montreal – myfirst50000.com I went for shopping pass noon today and it was great to feel the heat of the sun. I was wearing jeans, a sweatshirt and running shoes… and I was very hot. So I went back on, pick on a summer dress and I  went back to my little escapade. Wearing a summer dress on the end of April felt real nice… Continue Reading On myfirst50000.com » Early Retirement Is Impossible Because Of Health Insurance Costs…Not! – dividendmantra.com After some recent mainstream media attention on this blog and...

Weekly Reading Links 4.26.13 + MORE

Dividend Links – thedividendguyblog.com 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… Continue Reading On thedividendguyblog.com » Dividend Growth: Freedom Through Passive Income Book Review – dividendgrowthinvestor.com 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...

Domtar Corp. Becomes Oversold + MORE

Dividend Investing For Beginners – dividendmantra.com I realize that there are some people who have found my blog recently for the first time. I’ve been receiving some emails from readers asking for information on how to start out dividend growth investing and really where to begin. This is important information, and it’s a shame I haven’t really covered this before… Continue Reading On dividendmantra.com » Energy Transfer (ETE and ETP) MLP Update – thediv-net.com Energy Transfer Equity L.P. (ETE) is at the top of a complex energy partnership structure involving Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), Regency Energy Partners (RGP), Southern Union...

Textron, Inc. (TXT) Declares $0.02 Quarterly Dividend; 0.3% Yield + MORE

Dividend Income For March 2013 – thediv-net.com Welp, personally I’m glad March is over. I don’t know where you live, but here March came in like a lion and left like a man eating shark. We still have piles of snow and below freezing temperatures which means this will be the 7th consecutive month of having snow on the ground. I think those global warming groups need to find a hobby because I’m not seeing these hotter temperatures they keep going on about… Continue Reading On thediv-net.com » Is It Possible To Find Decent Telecom Plays For A Dividend Portfolio?...

High Yield Dividend Investing Misconceptions + MORE

IBERIABANK Breaks Above 200-Day Moving Average – Bullish for IBKC – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel In trading on Tuesday, shares of IBERIABANK Corp (NASD: IBKC) crossed above their 200 day moving average of $48.91, changing hands as high as $48.97 per share. IBERIABANK Corp shares are currently trading up about 1% on the day. The chart below shows the one year performance of IBKC shares, versus its 200 day moving average: Continue Reading On forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel » T Rowe Price Group, Inc. (TROW) Declares $0.38 Quarterly Dividend; 2% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/T+Rowe+Price+Group%2C+Inc.+%28TROW%29+Declares+%240.38+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+2%25+Yield/8271557.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com »...

High-Yield REITs With Growing Dividends + MORE

Northwest Bancshares, Inc. (NWBI) Declares $0.12 Special Dividend; 1% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/Northwest+Bancshares%2C+Inc.+%28NWBI%29+Declares+%240.12+Special+Dividend%3B+1%25+Yield/8267591.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com » Success Outliers: Dividend Growth Stocks – dividends4life.com 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… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Ex-Div Reminder for Core Laboratories – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel Looking at the universe of stocks...

NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG) Raises Quarterly Dividend 33.3% to $0.12; 1.8% Yield + MORE

Weekend Readings – intelligentspeculator.net I’m very excited about having a first “warm” weekend! It’s about time right? I know that for some of you, it’s never an issue.. but believe me, I’m thrilled. Even better, today, the NFL schedule was released for next year, I’m trying to find games that I could potentially attend… hoping to see at least one this year:) Are any of you planning to go see a game? If so, which one? General Readings -Obama’s chained CPI explained @ DarwinsMoney -Most $100 bills live outside the US @ NPR Dividend/Passive Income Readings -Portfolio update Q1 @...

Wolverine World Wide, Inc. (WWW) Declares $0.12 Quarterly Dividend; 1% Yield + MORE

The right time to sell dividend stocks – dividendgrowthinvestor.com With the market hitting fresh 17 month highs, investors have to look hard in order to find attractively valued opportunities. Plenty of stocks such as Aflac (AFL), Emerson Electric (EMR), 3M (MMM) and Realty Income (O) ,which in early 2009 rewarded enterprising dividend investors with their highest yields in a decade, are now yielding much less… Continue Reading On dividendgrowthinvestor.com » Dividend Increase: KMI – dgmachine.blogspot.com/ Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) is increasing its quarterly dividend by 2.7%, from $0.37 to $0.38 per share (press release). This is the second increase from...

CVS Caremark Now #40 Largest Company, Surpassing American Express + MORE

Telus Corp (T) is getting ready for its 2 for 1 split. Are you ready? – myfirst50000.com Tomorrow, it will happen. For the first time in its history, Telus is going to split! I am quite exciting by this. I had experiment not split but roll over, like 8 to 1 in the case of DNI Metals (DNI) and also BNT. In both cases, following the roll over, the stock had gained in value. Will Telus split stocks will gain in fabulous value? That’s what we are going to watch out for tomorrow and in the days to come… Continue...

Optical Cable Corp. (OCC) Declares $0.02 Quarterly Dividend; 1.9% Yield + MORE

Optical Cable Corp. (OCC) Declares $0.02 Quarterly Dividend; 1.9% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/Optical+Cable+Corp.+%28OCC%29+Declares+%240.02+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+1.9%25+Yield/8255232.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com » Passive Income Targets – April 2013 – intelligentspeculator.net I’ve gotta say, I never could have imagined how well this would be turning out to be. Since starting to do monthly updates about my passive income project, my revenues have been increasing steadily almost every single month. Part of it is expected as investments continue to compound and I reinvest all income… Continue Reading On intelligentspeculator.net » Dividend Increase: PG – dgmachine.blogspot.com/ Procter & Gamble (PG)...

New Trade: Long eBay ($EBAY) & Short Yahoo ($YHOO) + MORE

Energy Transfer (ETE and ETP) MLP Update – dividendmonk.com/ Energy Transfer Equity L.P. (ETE) is at the top of a complex energy partnership structure involving Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), Regency Energy Partners (RGP), Southern Union assets, Sunoco Logistics Partners (SXL) and Sunoco retail assets. -ETE Distribution Yield: 4.28% -ETE Five Year Distribution Growth: 12… Continue Reading On dividendmonk.com/ » New Trade: Long eBay ($EBAY) & Short Yahoo ($YHOO) – intelligentspeculator.net I’ll start off by saying that this morning I will be closing out 2 existing trades. I actually have 2 trades that have returns over 20% and 1 that is...

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Posts Q1 EPS of $1.59 + MORE

Capital Allocation – dgmachine.blogspot.com/ In my quarterly review that was published recently on Seeking Alpha, I mentioned that I would be temporarily suspending new capital investment during the second quarter and allocating my savings for the next few months to my emergency cash reserve. I wanted to take a moment to elaborate on the reasons for that decision… Continue Reading On dgmachine.blogspot.com/ » JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) Posts Q1 EPS of $1.59 – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/JPMorgan+Chase+%26+Co.+%28JPM%29+Posts+Q1+EPS+of+%241.59/8249550.html for the full story. Continue Reading On streetinsider.com » Dividend Link Roundup Time – thedividendguyblog.com 1. Target Corporation (TGT) Dividend Stock Analysis @...

Richardson Electronics Ltd (RELL) Declares $0.06 Quarterly Dividend; 2% Yield + MORE

Dividend Stocks You Should Buy – dividends4life.com According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), global per-barrel oil prices will fall below $100 by the end of 2014. Additionally, the US oil imports will reduce to half of the mid-2000 level. This decline in imports is an indicator to the upsurge in the domestic oil production. The US per-day oil production in 2014, could reach its highest level in the past two-and-a-half decades… Continue Reading On dividends4life.com » Richardson Electronics Ltd (RELL) Declares $0.06 Quarterly Dividend; 2% Yield – streetinsider.com Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Dividends/Richardson+Electronics+Ltd+%28RELL%29+Declares+%240.06+Quarterly+Dividend%3B+2%25+Yield/8246354.html for the full story. Continue Reading On...

Adtran, Inc. (ADTN) Declares $0.09 Quarterly Dividend; 1.8% Yield + MORE

Looking For Value, Growth And Income After The Recent Market Run Up – thediv-net.com A significant portion of all the great advantages that the world has received through the promise of technology can be credited to the Big 3: Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO), Intel Corp. (INTC) and Microsoft (MSFT).  Great gratitude should be attributed to these technology titans, because, thanks to them, the world enjoys a functioning Internet and enormous productivity advances… Continue Reading On thediv-net.com » Welcome in my TFSA portfolio AltaGas Ltd (ALA)! – myfirst50000.com Its now done and completed, AltaGas Ltd (ALA) is now from my portfolio, the...

A Real Dividend Growth Machine: Q1 2013 Review + MORE

Berkshire Hathaway Moves Up In Market Cap Rank, Passing Google – forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel In the latest look at the underlying components of the S&P 500 ordered by largest market capitalization, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) has taken over the #3 spot from Google Inc (NASD: GOOG), according to The Online Investor. Click here to find out the top S&P 500 components ordered by average analyst rating » Continue Reading On forbes.com/sites/dividendchannel » AltaGas Ltd (ALA) not yet in – myfirst50000.com I had call TD Waterhouse over the weekend to have some money transfer over my TFSA. But I must admit that I...