Archive for May, 2008

May
27

Frank
Dividend Investing
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Happy Holiday Everyone! I’m back from Memorial Day and I’m getting back into the swing of things so we’ll keep things brief, but here’s some things of interest for you.

Ben Stein, one of the many (questionable?) writers over at Yahoo Finance, had an interesting article today on the value of dividend-paying instruments.

I’ll be reviewing the Ultimate Dividend Investor’s Playbook soon, I really like it thus far.

Living Off Dividends continues the rent vs. own debate. This is always a hot-button issue for personal finance bloggers. Where’s your line in the sand?

Enjoy!

May
21

Frank
Dividend Investing
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A lot of bloggers that write about dividends often mention real estate as a way to bring in yet another source of alternate income. If you’re good enough, you can go out, buy an investment property, and make some money on the side after maintenance expenses, taxes, and the mortgage. There’s something about Real Estate that has made me very iffy about getting into it however. I can’t seem to get over this hurdle, because it goes against the fiber of how I live and what I believe in. Sounds like a serious issue? It really shouldn’t be, but it

May
19

Frank
Dividend Investing
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It almost seems counterintuitive, but it’s true. If you’re a dividend investor you should focus an awful lot of your investment analysis on growth, though not in the context you’re thinking of. I’m not speaking to the growth of the firm itself, but rather the rate in which a firm increases it’s dividend payment.

This is particularly important for a variety of reasons. Firstly as you may know, dividend payers are often large companies that don’t have a whole lot of room to expand their operations. As such much of your return will be driven by the

May
14

Frank
Dividend Investing
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I’m always on the lookout for firms that consistently raise dividends or spotting trends of increasing dividends. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some companies that raised their dividend payouts in recent weeks!

FactSet Research Systems (FDS) raised it’s quarterly dividend by 50% to 18 cents per share.
Barrick Gold (ABX) raised it’s dividend semi-annual dividend by 33% to 20 cents per share.
PepsiCo (PEP) [Note: I'm a fan of this one] raised its annual dividend by 13% to $1.70 per share.

I’ll be trying to keep track each week of notable firms that are out there raising

May
12

admin
Passive Income
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I’ve never been a big fan of parking domain names for money. From my experience the amount of direct traffic related to a valuable domain name would not convert well enough to make any sort of serious money unless you have thousands of domains. At a cost of about 10$ per domain for an annual registration, a site would have to make about 0.83 a month to break even (this does not include domain registration costs). At first glance you may think “That’s not much at all!” and you’d be right, but think of the scale you’d have to take

May
09

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Blog News
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You’ll have to forgive the mess, I’m still working out all of the kinks with my theme and the latest version of Wordpress. However in the mean time feel free to make yourself at home! My name is Frank and this is my blog, Dividend Days.

I won’t bore you with all the details, but I’m an avid dividend investor and as my About Me states, seeker of long-term passive income. Whether this is through investing, offline and online projects, or other services, I’m always excited to find the next money-making opportunity.

So kick back, relax, and enjoy the blog.

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