Weekly Links: May 8, 2011

Each Sunday I highlight the Carnivals I participated in over the past week, along with any notable articles that I came across. For those readers not familiar with carnivals, it's where personal finance bloggers submit their best articles of the week with one blog serving as the host. The entries are separated into various categories such as Investing, Credit, Debt, Budgeting, Frugality, Wealth Building, Money Management, Financial Planning, Insurance, Taxes, The Economy, Real Estate, et. al. Below are the carnivals that I participated in this week, along with a link to my article:

• Festival of Stocks published: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (WMT) Dividend Stock Analysis
• Carnival of Financial Planning published: 10 Dividend Stocks Paying More Cash

Articles I enjoyed reading included (in no particular order):


The DIV-Net Featured Articles

• Dividends4Life presented Stock Analysis: Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
• Barel Karsan presented A Look At RadioShack (RSH)
• The Passive Income Earner presented Sun Life Financial (SLF) Dividend Stock Analysis
• Dividend Growth Investor presented Stock Analysis: Bemis Company

Articles From DIV-Net Members

• Dividend Growth Investor presented Six Dividend Stocks to Hold Forever
• Barel Karsan presented Lexmark: Another Falling Knife
• The Passive Income Earner presented Dividend Yield: Bell Alliant (BA)
• The Dividend Guy presented Communications, Materials & Techno Stocks: Dividend Sector Winner Q1
• The Div Guy presented New Investment - Real Estate in CA
• Disciplined Approach to Investing presented Dividend Payers Outperform Non Payers In April
• Dividend Money presented Dividend Growth Model
• Dividend Monk presented 20 Quick Ways to Check a Company
• Compounding Returns presented Building Wealth is a Journey, Not a Destination
• Dividend Partisan presented Dividend Portfolio Update: May
• Whopper Investments presented An interesting but volatile value investment (APT)

Articles from D4L-News:

• Dividend Stocks Out of This World
• Utility Stocks Paying Dividends Upwards of 4%
• High Dividend Financial Stocks
• Stocks for the Next Three Decades
• Impressive Oil Dividend Stocks
• More Dividend News

There are some really good articles here, please take time and read a few of them.  

(Photo: Sachin Ghodke)