Dividends

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How can you earn $4,000/year with only $25,000 invested? If the average dividend yield for blue-chip stocks is around 2%, a quick calculation would tell you that you need at least $200,000 in order to make $4,000/year in dividends, here's the quick math:

$200,000 x 2% = $4,000

Therefore, how can you earn $4,000/year with only $25,000 invested? Keep reading on how this is possible.

Two things are important
When it comes to dividend investing two things are important:

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Why are dividends important? Why do we focus so much on dividends? Dividends provide you with an immediate return on your investment while you hold on to your dividend-paying stocks, regardless of what happens to the stock price. Dividends are paid in cash to shareholders, you can spend your dividends or reinvest them into other dividend-paying stocks.

What is dividend yield?
For example, if a stock is trading at $30/share and the dividend is $1.50/share your divide…

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Stock prices go up and down all the time. Everyone has heard the phrase "buy low and sell high". How do you know when a stock is priced low (on sale), and why should you "buy low"?

How do you know when a stock is priced low?
I've created a short video that shows you how to quickly determine when a stock is priced low (undervalued). You can watch the video here on my Youtube Channel.

Why should you buy low?
Let's say a stock is priced low at $15 and priced high at $65. …

Six Canadian banks recently announced dividend increases and share buybacks within the first week of December (2021). Continue reading to learn why they announced the dividend increases, and how this news impacts you as an investor.

Why did they increase dividends?
In November 2021 Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions allowed the country’s banks and large insurers to resume dividend increases and share buybacks, undoing measures put in place in March 2020 to protect …

Is it possible to live off dividends alone? Can dividends eventually cover your living expenses? The answer is yes and yes. This month I share with you a story of a Canadian couple earning $360,000 per year just from dividends.

$360,000/year in dividends
My friend Bob, the financial blogger from Tawcan.com, recently interviewed a couple on his site that are today earning $360,000 each year from dividends. Head on over to Bob's site to read this fascinating two-part series:

Living off dividend…

This month I would like to discuss the importance of dividend yield. The dividend yield determines how much you can earn. At the end of the day our focus is more on income generation than on individual stock prices.

What is a dividend?
A dividend is money that you receive from a company, just for owning their shares. For example, if a company is paying a $1/share dividend and you own 1000 shares, you will receive $1000 for as long as you own those shares and as long as the company continues to…

As a result of COVID-19, dividend cuts have been prominently discussed in the news last year (2020). Based on the headlines you would think that dividend investing is dead, but the reality is much different. Keep reading to get a better understanding of how you can continue to earn more this year and in the years to come.

What is a dividend?
A dividend is money that you receive from a company, just for owning their shares. For example, if a company is paying a $1/share dividend and you own 100…

There are two ways to make money with stocks, one is based on hope the other is based on data.

The 1st way to make money
The first way to make money with stocks is to buy shares when they are priced low, and then wait for the stock price to go up. Then you hope that someday the shares will be worth more than what you paid for them.