Dividend Growth Investing & Retirement

11 Canadian Dividend Growth Stocks Increasing Dividends #DividendGrowth #CDASL $BNS $CAE $CM $CWB $EIF $KEY $LGT.B $RBA $RY $SAP $SYZ

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Each month I update readers of all the dividend increases in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List (Canadian companies that have increased their dividend for 5 or more years in a row.) along with a summary of these…

8 Lessons I Learned from One of My Worst Dividend Growth Investments, A 5-Part Series. Lesson 5

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They say the hardest lessons in life are learned through experience. Well let’s just say a 38.6% loss in about a month is a lot of “experience”.

On November 6, 2015, and December 1, 2015, I purchased shares of a…

2 Canadian Dividend Growth Stocks Increasing Dividends

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Each month I update readers of all the dividend increases in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List (Canadian companies that have increased their dividend for 5 or more years in a row.) along with a summary of these…

3 Canadian Dividend Growth Stocks Increasing Dividends

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I missed February and March, but normally each month I update readers of all the dividend increases in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List (Canadian companies that have increased their dividend for 5 or more years…

7 Canadian Dividend Growth Stocks Increasing Dividends #DividendGrowth $TFII $WCN $CCA $CGO $MIC $FTS $TRI

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Each month I update readers of all the dividend increases in the Canadian Dividend All-Star List (Canadian companies that have increased their dividend for 5 or more years in a row.) along with a summary of these…

How to estimate dividend growth and total returns using Josh Peters’ Dividend Drill Return Model [Example & Spreadsheet] #dividend growth

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“Dividend Yield + Dividend Growth = Prospective Return”

Josh Peters, The Ultimate Dividend Playbook (AL), Chapter 2

This formula is based on the Gordon Growth Modeland is used to estimate the total return of a…

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“Dividends may not be the only path for an individual investor’s success, but if there’s a better one, I have yet to find it”

Josh Peters – The Ultimate Dividend Playbook: Income, Insight and Independence for Today’s…

These 3 sectors have the longest dividend streaks, but which offers the best dividend growth?

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The investment landscape can be broken down into 11 different sectors:

Consumer Discretionary,

Consumer Staples (Also known as Consumer Defensive),

Energy,

Financials,

Health Care,

Industrials,

Information Technology,

M…

Portfolio Update - CVS Health Corp. Purchased $CVS #dividendgrowth #healthcare

In an effort to be transparent I like to keep my readers up to date on my portfolio changes. By keeping an open book of my portfolio and changes to it, I hope to generate discussion so others can see how I put my investing philosophy into practice. An added bonus is that it makes me a better investor as I have to rationalize my investing decisions to others. This helps take some of the emotion…

Annual Canadian Dividend All-Star List Update Coming Soon & 2016 Popular Posts #dividendgrowth #popular #posts

My Gingerbread Dragon. I hope everyone is enjoying the Holidays so far. I’ve got about a week off from work and I’m really looking forward to some relaxing time with the family over the Holidays. On the theme of relaxing I thought I would write a cop-out article on my most popular posts in 2016 ;). This is an annual tradition for most bloggers, lol. So without further ado here they are… Most…

8 Canadian Dividend Growth Stocks With No Long Term Debt #NoDebt #dividendgrowth

When I wrote Financially Strong Canadian Dividend Growth Stocks & Their Credit Ratings I looked at Canadian companies with a dividend streak of 5 of more years and Bank of Montreal [BMO.TO]: a total of 89 companies. While compiling that list I was surprised to discover that there were 8 companies that didn’t have any long term debt. In this article I’m going to take a quick look at each of these…

Portfolio Update: Canadian Utilities Limited Purchased $CU.CA $CU $ACO.X #dividendgrowth

Canadian Utilities Limited One of the reasons I started this blog was to educate others and to improve my own investing. This is why I like to keep my readers up to date on my portfolio changes. For the most up to date portfolio changes follow my twitter account as I will usually tweet first and then follow-up with a blog post. By keeping an open book of my portfolio and changes to it, I hope to…

Portfolio Update - Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Purchased $POT $POT.CA #dividendgrowth? #yieldchasing?

One of the reasons I started this blog was to educate others and to improve my own investing. This is why I like to keep my readers up to date on my portfolio changes. For the most up to date portfolio changes follow my twitter account as I will usually tweet first and then follow-up with a blog post. By keeping an open book of my portfolio and changes to it, I hope to generate discussion so…

Canadian Dividend All-Star List – September 2015 Update #dividendgrowth $ALA.CA $FTS.CA $EMA.CA $ALA $FTS $EMA

The Canadian Dividend All-Star List has been updated for September 30th. The list contains Canadian companies that have increased their recorded dividends for five or more calendar years in a row. The list also contains an “Others” tab to include some other companies that have a dividend streak of less than 5 years. The list has an array of stock information that includes over 10 years’ worth of…

Portfolio Update - National Bank of Canada & Exxon Mobil Corporation Purchased $NA.CA $XOM

For those new to the blog, I like to keep my readers up to date on portfolio changes. One of the reasons I started this blog was to educate others, but also to improve my own investing. By keeping an open book of my portfolio and changes to it, I hope to generate discussion so others can see how I put my investing philosophy into practice. For the most up to date portfolio changes follow my…

Canadian Dividend All-Star List - July 2015 Update $SU $IMO $CHW $ACD $TCS $ATB.B

The Canadian Dividend All-Star List has been updated for July 31st. The Canadian Dividend All-Star List is a list/spreadsheet of Canadian companies that have increased their recorded dividends for five or more calendar years in a row. I added an “Others” tab to include some other companies that don’t have the five year dividend streak. The list contains an array of stock information that includes…

Portfolio Update: 3 Financials Purchased $BNS $CWB $HCG $BNS.CA $CWB.CA $HCG.CA

For those new to the blog, I like to keep my readers up to date on portfolio changes. One of the reasons I started this blog was to educate others, but also to improve my own investing. By keeping an open book of my portfolio and changes to it, I hope to generate discussion so others can see how I put my investing philosophy into practice. For the most up to date portfolio changes follow my…