- Carnival of Personal Finance published: Who is Ben Grossbaum and Why Should We Listen to Him?
- The Wealth Builder Carnival published: This Stock Is Flying High With Another Dividend Increase
Articles I enjoyed reading included (in no particular order):
- The Dividend Guy presented Best US Dividend Stocks for 2013
- Disciplined Approach to Investing presented Dividend Strategies Underperform In 2012
The DIV-Net Featured Articles
- Stock Analysis: Sysco Corporation (SYY)
- Don’t Just Go To Jared, Invest In It
- Stock Analysis: Stryker Corporation
- Free Your Chains
Articles from D4L-News:
No Lost Decade Here
I recently read an excellent article by Tim McAleenan Jr. in which he discussed how "dead money" isn't really dead if you buy dividend growth stocks. He highlighted some stocks which have had very small capital appreciation over the past 5 years, but when you include the dividends that you were paid the returns were actually fairly decent. It made me think about "The Lost Decade" of 2000-2010 in which...
Cheap Dividend Stocks
Value investors buy stocks of companies that appear to be priced below their intrinsic values based on financial metrics such as price-to-earnings ratios, price-to-book ratios, or dividend yields. A value investment strategy has proven to produce greater risk-adjusted returns than alternatives. Prudent value investors can attempt to achieve higher returns by uncovering undervalued companies that boast an appreciation potential and dividend payouts that provide current income such as...
How To Beat The Pros
In this month's edition of the Central Banking Journal, Paul Woolley and Dimitri Vayanos from the London School of Economics provide 10 concrete recommendations for "owners of capital" to "tame the finance monster." While the paper is aimed at pension fund managers and sovereign wealth funds that delegate the execution of their investment mandates to external fund managers, several of the recommendations are absolutely applicable to individuals, whether they're picking stocks or mutual fund managers. For example...
How To Find Stocks That Will Boost Dividends
There's a straightforward way to assess not just the safety of a dividend, but its growth prospects as well. Yet among these steady growers, it's also possible to find a more limited group that also pays a dividend. Once you're focused on this group, there's a simple way to calculate how much a dividend might grow. In a nutshell...
Buy and Forget These Dividend Stocks
Unsurprisingly, dividend-paying stocks tend to outperform over the long run. Stocks with price-to-earnings ratios under 20 also tend to outperform the latest craze. Emotion plays a short-term role in valuation, and we can measure emotion, in part, with the PE ratio. Here are the large dividend-paying stocks I think are worth owning and forgetting about in 2013...
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