Dividend Stock Watch List: Lanny’s August 2020 Edition

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As investors, there are always opportunities out there.  The stock market continues the trajectory upwards, making the journey to financial freedom by using dividend income as a passive income source, a little more difficult.  I still will say – there is nothing better than dividend income, no matter what time of the year!  That’s what the dividend stock watch list is all about!  Let’s buckle up and read Lanny’s Dividend Stock Watch List – August Edition. Continue reading

Stocks with a Perfect Dividend Payout Ratio

Nothing makes me happier than a fundamentally strong dividend growth stock (except for my daughter). Reviewing a company’s dividend payout ratio is critical to determining the strength of a company’s dividend. Over the years, we have figured out the percent range that we consider perfect for the metric. In this article, we will explain the dividend payout ratio, why it is such an important metric, discuss the perfect payout ratio, and create a list of companies that have a perfect payout ratio.

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Dividend Stock Purchase: Lanny’s April 2020 Summary

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April was overall another positive month for the market, after a wild ride down in the mid-to-end of March.  There were dividend suspensions across the retail industry and even dividend cuts, including one from a major oil player that did not cut their dividend since the World War days.  Time to dive into April’s dividend stock purchase activity!

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Bert’s March Dividend Stock Purchases

Last week, I released my March dividend income summary.  Typically, I’ll show my stock purchases in the summary article.  However, in March, I made a lot of low dollar stock purchases, as the market showed its twists and turns.  As a result, I decided to split the articles so I can discuss some of the purchases in greater detail.  This article will summarize my March dividend stock purchases.

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Dividend Stock Purchase: Lanny’s March 2020 Summary

March was the most interesting month, in quite some time, to say the least.  We witnessed many down and up days of over 5%.  As I am typing this, the market has had their best 4 day run since 1974, literally 46 years ago.  This just goes to show you how low the market hit and even with this, the market is still undervalued.  Could this be a teaser upswing, to set us up for the next bear drop?  Who knows.  What I do know is that the dividend stock purchases continued through the month of March!

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Bert’s April Dividend Stock Watch List

The last month has been unlike anything I have experienced as a dividend investor.  I primarily started investing in 2011 and 2012, well after the the market calmed down after the financial crisis.  There have been blips since then (Oil prices collapsing in 2016, for example), but nothing close to the magnitude of what we are experiencing now.  It is most important that we all remain healthy.  But after that, my family and I are trying to make the right financial and investment decisions. Because after all, as we are unfortunately seeing, you cannot predict what tomorrow will bring. So today, I spent some time researching dividend growth stocks and built my April dividend stock watch list.

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