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The Case For A 100% Dividend Stock Portfolio

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This post is aimed at investors who are not at all bothered by volatility and make investments based solely on the long-term earnings power (and dividend potential) of the companies they select. If the thought of experiencing price declines of 30%, 40% or 50% would cause you to abandon the strategy, then I will be the first to say that the construction of a 100% dividend portfolio is not for you, and would possibly erase years and years of hard work and savings if you tried to implement it.

However, if you do make decisions based solely on earnings power, it is possible that you may consider a portfolio that consists exclusively of high-quality companies that pay dividends to shareholders, and have strong records of increasing their payouts to shareholders by growing profits at satisfactory risk-adjusted rates over almost all five-year rolling periods.

A large part of the reason why


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A Look At My Investing Mistakes With Dividend Stocks

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Since I have recently disclosed to some regular Seeking Alpha readers that I had made well-timed investments in both Bank of America (BAC) and General Electric (GE) that have done well for me so far, I thought it would be useful to give investors a more complete picture by including some of the boneheaded moves that I have made in the past year or so.

A little while ago, I had to make a choice between investing in Conoco Phillips (COP) and Phillips 66 (PSX). Conoco was trading in the low $50s, and Phillips 66 was trading in the low to mid $30s. I had researched both companies (although the information for Phillips 66 was much more limited, as is often the case with freshly spunoff companies). Anyway, I decided to buy ConocoPhillips in the low $50s, even though I knew that Phillips 66 was much more attractively valued.


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3 Dividend Stocks For A Safe Retirement Portfolio

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By Siraj Sarwar

In the low interest rate environment, retirees can achieve far higher returns through investments in high-dividend stocks than by sticking with government bonds. While the conventional wisdom is that such stock investment exposes investors to higher risks than are encountered through the purchase of bonds, much of this risk can be minimized by the careful selection of companies with strong fundamentals indicating the financial health.

Such sound high-dividend stocks worthy of investment are characterized by the presence of good cash flows to give support to dividends. Consistently stable cash flows benefit investors even if the capital appreciation in such stocks tends to be lower. Investment in these kinds of stocks can also have the effect of lowering a portfolio’s volatility. In the context of markets turning bearish, having such high-dividend stocks in a portfolio translates into having highly valuable assets.

In this article, I pick three companies


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