Wide Moat Stocks In The US Dividend Champions List
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Wide Moat Stocks In The US Dividend Champions List

antonychammond / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SA I like to invest in undervalued dividend growth stocks that have a sustainable competitive advantage. Today I’m going to talk about the second part of this phrase as I’ve already written quite a bit about how I determine target prices and how to identify undervalued dividend growth stocks. Warren…

Updated Canadian Dividend All-Star List: June 30, 2013
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Updated Canadian Dividend All-Star List: June 30, 2013

For the past week I’ve been in Cambodia checking out the temples in Siem Reap. As you can see from the picture above, it has been a great adventure. I’ll be heading over to Thailand shortly, but happy Canada Day weekend to all the folks back home. I’ve been traveling since October 2012 and it…

IAMGOLD: A Distraction From My Dividend Growth Investing Strategy

IAMGOLD: A Distraction From My Dividend Growth Investing Strategy

PHGCOM / Foter.com / CC BY-SA I am a dividend growth investor. I like to buy dividend paying companies with long track records of increasing dividends and strong competitive advantages. I look for higher than average dividend growth and a steadily increasing stream of income. Oh, and I also only like to buy when the…

Overcome Dividend Yield Valuation Flaws and Find Reasonable Target Prices Fast
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Overcome Dividend Yield Valuation Flaws and Find Reasonable Target Prices Fast

Suncor Energy / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND Last week I went over how you can compare the current dividend yield to historical averages to see if a stock is undervalued. The idea being that if the dividend is sustainable and the current yield is higher than the 3, 5, and 10 year high yield averages…

Deciding Which Stocks To Buy: Dividend Growth Investing Criteria
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Deciding Which Stocks To Buy: Dividend Growth Investing Criteria

hang_in_there / Foter.com / CC BY A question I often get asked is how do I decide what stocks to buy? The answer isn’t a simple one, but I’ll do my best to break it down. My process involves reviewing various companies and setting target prices. My dividend growth investing criteria is broken into two parts….

Can Past Dividend Growth Rates Be Relied Upon To Predict Future Rates?
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Can Past Dividend Growth Rates Be Relied Upon To Predict Future Rates?

seanmcgrath / People Photos / CC BY If you look at my retirement goals you’ll see that I want to have a growing stream of dividend income to support me in retirement. In order to meet my goals I’m looking for a dividend growth rate (DGR) of 8%. This is an ambitious rate in my…

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Canadian Dividend All-Star List Update: Column Headers Explained

I’ve now gone through and made some notes on what all the column headers mean in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List. This information will be included in the Notes tab of the All-Star List download at the end of the month. Here’s the information: Seq The ranking of companies based on the length of their…

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Canadian Dividend All-Star List Update: Atlantic Power cuts its dividend

I released my first official Canadian Dividend All-Star List on February 28th. After uploading the file, Atlantic Power announced it would be cutting it’s dividend. How’s that for bad timing. The company cut it’s dividend by 65%. The monthly dividend has been reduced from $0.0958 to $0.033. Prior to the cut Atlantic Power had increased…