Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Dividend Challengers: 13 Increases Expected In The Next 11 Weeks - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Challengers: 13 Increases Expected In The Next 11 Weeks - Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here), I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Since most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, I can say with some confidence that they are likely to do so again. I have modified the Expected Increase series to reflect a more SA-friendly format by separating the Champions (25 or more years of higher dividends), Contenders (10-24 years), and Challengers (5-9 years) into distinct groupings, so please click the above links to view the other articles.

Dividend Contenders: 19 Increases Expected By The End Of April - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Contenders: 19 Increases Expected By The End Of April - Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here), I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Since most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, I can say with some confidence that they are likely to do so again. I have modified the Expected Increase series to reflect a more SA-friendly format by separating the Champions (25 or more years of higher dividends), Contenders (10-24 years), and Challengers (5-9 years) into distinct groupings, so please click the links above to view the other articles.

Dividend Champions: 15 Increases Expected By April 30 - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Champions: 15 Increases Expected By April 30 - Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Since most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, I can say with some confidence that they are likely to do so again. I have modified the Expected Increase series to reflect a more SA-friendly format by separating the Champions (25 or more years of higher dividends), Contenders (10-24 years), and Challengers (5-9 years) into distinct groupings, so please click the links above to view the other articles.

Sunday, February 10, 2013

Rebalancing My Dividend Growth Portfolio For Diversification And More Yield - Seeking Alpha

Rebalancing My Dividend Growth Portfolio For Diversification And More Yield - Seeking Alpha: I had not planned to write another article about my demonstration Dividend Growth Portfolio [DGP] until the next formal Portfolio Review in April. But a couple days ago, I did a rebalancing on the portfolio along the lines anticipated in my January article, "Rising Dividends: My Dividend Growth Portfolio 2012-2013 Report." I thought that perhaps people would be interested in what I did, why I did it, and what the outcome was.

As I wrote in that prior article:

Saturday, February 9, 2013

Dividend Challengers Smackdown XXXV - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Challengers Smackdown XXXV - Seeking Alpha: Dividend Challengers Smackdown XXXV

In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp) using a high (2011) Dividend Growth Rate with low Beta and, last month, by combining a high (2012) Dividend Growth Rate with low Free Cash Flow Payout and high Return on Equity, two columns that were added at the end of December.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXXV - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXXV - Seeking Alpha: Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXXV

In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp) using a high (2011) Dividend Growth Rate with low Beta and, last month, by combining a high (2012) Dividend Growth Rate with low Free Cash Flow Payout and high Return on Equity, two columns that were added at the end of December.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

Dividend Champions Smackdown XXXV - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Champions Smackdown XXXV - Seeking Alpha: In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp) using a high (2011) Dividend Growth Rate with low Beta and, last month, by combining a high (2012) Dividend Growth Rate with low Free Cash Flow Payout and high Return on Equity, two columns that were added at the end of December.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

19 Things I Like About Dividends - Seeking Alpha

19 Things I Like About Dividends - Seeking Alpha: When I wrote my first Top 40 eBook in 2008, I included a chapter entitled, "Why Invest in Dividend Stocks?" I discussed the pros and cons of dividend growth investing. On the "pro" side, I had 9 reasons to invest in dividend growth stocks.

A couple of weeks ago, I published the 2013 edition. My number of reasons to like dividend growth stocks has grown to 19. Here they are.

12 Things To Dislike About Dividend Investing - Seeking Alpha

12 Things To Dislike About Dividend Investing - Seeking Alpha: Last week, I wrote "19 Things I Like about Dividends." In the comments section, I sort of promised to write an article about the downsides to dividend investing. This is that article.

In addition to drawing on the 2013 edition of my annual eBook on dividend growth investing, I have dug back and found some of the objections to dividend investing that have turned up in articles and comments on SA and other places over the past couple of years.