Choosing a Dividend Aristocrat

The following is a guest post from Justin at Investing Ninja. If you’d like to guest post on the Dividend Ninja, be sure to check out our Guest Posting Guidelines. Many articles and books have been written about choosing a dividend paying company.  Within these sources you will find numerous calculations that can be used to narrow down the seemingly infinite list of dividend paying companies – payout ratios, dividend yield, dividend growth rate, annual earnings per share (EPS) growth rate, debt to equity ratio are just a few of the many ratios that can be used. But where is …

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Four Quadrants for a Better Understanding of Your Portfolio

The Dividend Guy has been very generous. He has provided me an excellent guest post for you over on The Dividend Pig. The post is from a chapter of his new eBook, and is titled: Four Quadrants for a Better Understanding of Your Portfolio. It’s a great post with an easy to use analysis that will help you become a better investor. It will help you become more informed about the dividend stocks you purchase. That analysis involves the use of quadrants. The material comes from Mike’s new eBook, Dividend Growth: Freedom Through Passive Income. In this article, Mike uses …

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