Sunday, October 16, 2016

Weekend Reading Links - October 16, 2016

Each Sunday I highlight any notable articles that I came across over the past week. Though I may not always agree with each of the articles highlighted, they will often provide an interesting argument for their position. We can take some concepts that may or may not align with our vision, then apply them to our framework, and voila, a new idea is born.

Articles you might find interesting:

- Recent Buy
- Two Dividend Growth Stocks On My Radar
- The Shocking Truth about Dividend Growth
- Recent Option Transaction
- September 2016 trading, investing, and dividends results

The DIV-Net Featured Articles:

- 5 Stocks With Room To Grow Their Dividend
- 4 Stocks To Buy
- Recent Buy – B2Gold Corp
- General Electric is Dressed to Please but You have to Sell it Now
- Why I sold a position that was up more than 300%

Articles from D4L-News:

7 Dividend Stocks In The Danger Zone
Don’t think that just because a company pays a dividend, and has done so for many years that the dividend is safe. Over the years, we have witnessed companies that were seemingly “safe” forced into reducing or eliminating their dividend altogether. Without a dividend today, it is clear that the company’s bad investments and debt forced management to suspend the payout altogether. Granted, CHK may seem like the outlier, but it happens more than you would think...

Warren Buffett Has Billions Invested in These 5 Dividend Stocks
Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway is arguably the most successful investor in history, having started with nothing and achieving a net worth of $65 billion dollars (and that despite donating tens of billions of dollars along the way). While Buffett has achieved his wealth by using many different investment styles over time, perhaps his most successful strategy has been to invest in wide-moat stocks that pay generous dividends...

Dividend Stock Yields Over 8%, Major Growth, Estimates Rising, Upped Guidance
Do you believe in global warming? That's a question that has become a bit less provocative recently, belying its past as a surefire cocktail party buzz kill, right up there with politics and religion. But before you angrily dip your nacho chips in the wrong sauce, pause and consider the lowly wood chip, a former castoff which is the underlying star of this article. This stock yields 8.6%, with strong 1.3x coverage. It continues to report major growth, supported by strong industry tailwinds. It has received several analyst estimate revisions over the past month...

3 Stocks to Buy With Dividends Yielding More Than 6%
Starved for yield? As the stock markets are hovering around all-time highs and money managers are pouring money into bonds, there are certainly fewer high-yield investments out there. That doesn't mean they are impossible to find, though. These three stocks...

This Stock Portfolio Gets Investors A 5% Yield Tax Free
Municipal bonds are popular with retirees because they provide tax-free income. Some pay secure yields above 6%, which translates to 10% tax-equivalent payouts to folks in high tax brackets. But buying individual municipal bonds isn’t easy. Many brokers don’t offer them, and the ones that do usually try to sell low quality munis that big institutions have avoided because they know the bonds are poor quality – like the dogs issued by Puerto Rico or Detroit. But most munis are perfectly secure. Ideally, you want to get your hands on the municipal bonds that institutions are buying. Many people think that’s impossible, but it isn’t—it just means we need to think laterally...

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

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