I’ve been sharing my top stocks to buy lists on Twitter and Facebook for the past several months and thought I’d shake things up a bit this week by putting together a post on the website. I’m getting back in the habit of writing again, having posted three articles in the last couple of weeks…
Fall is in the air. Little league baseball is over and football, soccer, and cross country for the kids are just beginning. We took our final family camping trip of the summer this past weekend, and the kids started school this week. Yard work, gardening, work, and chasing an ever more able toddler keep me…
February was a whirlwind of a month with several projects keeping me busy at work, kid’s schoolwork and activities busy at home, and then potty and sleep training a new puppy on top of it all. This post was actually started several weeks ago, but I wasn’t able to get it finished in time for…
Greetings and welcome to the summer edition of the DGI For The DIY dividend income review. My apologies for the lack of updates in recent months, I’m sure you’ve all been on the edge of your seats in anticipation of a new article! As is likely the case with most of you, it’s been an…
The month of February is in the books, and it was an extremely volatile one for the stock market. It was also a busy month for me personally, as deadlines led to overtime at work and frequent snowstorms provided me with ample exercise opportunities in shoveling out the driveway.
What a year! I don’t know about the rest of you, but 2017 was an incredible 365 days for me and my family. It was a year that brought fun life experiences, a change in my career path, and some new milestones for my portfolio and this website.
As I type this update, we sit just three weeks one week away from Christmas. My kids are getting more excited by the day, and my 3-year-old still hasn’t quite figured out why it isn’t already Christmas since the tree is up and Christmas songs are playing on the radio. However, the purpose of this post…
I read many comments, articles, and other writings about DGI investing throughout the week. Earlier this month, I started to bookmark the pieces that catch my eye, with plans to highlight them for readers here on DGI For The DIY. Regular readers of this site are aware of the respect and admiration I have for Chowder on Seeking Alpha. He…
I am all smiles after a handful of dividend increases were announced in the DGI For The DIY portfolio. Over the last two weeks, 5 more companies declared new dividend rates, providing me with another nice boost to my income. With these increases, ten of the eleven companies from my portfolio dividend growth projections have now made announcements. I previously wrote about the…
I was just going over some of my sector-based watch lists and was struck by the wide variety of dividend payout ratio targets that have been set by companies. This got me thinking about how often investors, and specifically dividend investors, use payout ratio as an initial screening tool for finding potential investments. Not only…