The Reminder of being a Dividend Growth Investor from KMI’s News

SMACK!  The thunderous market was turmoiling, lower and lower.  Kinder Morgan (KMI) was taking a beating.  They just announced news about additional investments, further deteriorating the credit quality by the rating indexes.  From trading at $42.81 to begin the year and then plummeting downward to a spiral collapse at $16.42 on the close of 12/7, is truly amazing, a 62% decline from one of the Nation’s biggest/largest oil pipeline companies.  Management kept enamoring a dividend focused strategy, to set increases at a % growth rate each year, and then committing by showing/increasing the dividend throughout the year.   Interesting how the year really can unfold…  Continue reading

November Dividend Income From You The Bloggers

Another month is marked in the books and here we are – the November Dividend Income edition from YOU the bloggers.  This has been a fun post to display how far we have come, the fruit from the labor and a way to summarize in a format to see where all of the cards are playing out.  Also – a fun little jab at Bert to see if his dividend income will be greater than mine – last December was a fluke I tell ya!  Without furtherado – here is the dividend income from November from YOU.
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Lanny’s November Dividend Income

We are now entering December!  Gearing up after this one for the FINAL dividend posting and last month + to reach your annual goals.  Extremely excited for things coming down the pipeline and dividend income will be looking solid going into December.  Now… to the numbers!

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My Phone Battle & Success with AT&T Cable & Internet

Well, well, it seems as though Bert was driving off of what I was able to accomplish with my mom’s package with AT&T recently/earlier this month.  You know how this battle goes – price is too high, you don’t want to pay/can’t afford that service, want to save money to invest/act more frugal, but that does mean one thing we all dread… Calling your cable/internet provider.  Luckily, I don’t have cable at my house, but my mom does, to which she wants to keep it.  Well, I wanted to put the gloves on and go to battle for her, did I come out the victor?  Let’s see how this went down and who stood at the end…

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Robinhood Review – Pros & Cons | Stock Investment Platform! [Updated: October 2020]

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[Updated 10/2020] Investors looking for a platform have many options, especially with zero trading fees to buy stocks.  The list of playforms that allow you to invest in stocks is extremely long, such as Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Vanguard, but there have been modern breakthroughs based on smartphones and technology.

Those modern technology platforms that allow you to invest in stocks bring names in such as Robinhood, Webull, M1 Finance, to name a few.  After all, the mission of these investing platforms is to help you on your financial journey.  Therefore, we wanted to analyze an application/service providers for the readers, and that my friends is – Robinhood!

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Dividend Diplomats September Watch List

It’s about that time of the month everyone!  The stock market has been wild and rampant, with dips, swings up, going upside down, normal side right, well you get the picture.  The Dividend Diplomats have strung together a few companies we are analyzing during this month of September to see what we can create or add to within our portfolio.  Essentially volatility can be great, if it means the companies are fundamentally strong but that overreaction to external and macro events are causing the push down in prices across the board – thus opening up opportunities for us dividend investors.  Come and see what is on our dividend stock watch list!

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Lanny’s January Dividend Income Summary

Hello everyone!  It’s the first month of 2015 and it was a fruitful month to begin the new year!  It’s wild to see that one month has essentially finished and another month of dividend income is in the books.  I know we all love to read these posts from the writers in the community, so let’s get to the January Dividend Income Summary!

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