http://dividendstocks4income.com Generate a current and growing income stream with stocks that pay you to own them Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:20:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A recent article at SmartMoney focuses on 3 Stocks With Affordable 4% Yields. By "affordable" the article is referring to the companies' abilities to pay their dividends while still having enough cash to pay for other expenses and investments - a sign that the dividends are likely to be ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2010/02/02/three-stocks-with-affordable-4-dividends/ It's always interesting to read Jeremy Grantham's latest thoughts on the market. In his just published Q4 2009 letter (embedded below) he reiterates his view that the market, as represented by the S&P 500, is worth only 850 and that any advance from current levels will make it "seriously overpriced." Still, ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2010/01/27/grantham-high-quality-stocks-still-relatively-cheap/ A recent post at ModernGraham - a site devoted to the study of the security analysis methods of value investing pioneer Benjamin Graham - highlights "10 Dividend Companies for the Enterprising Investor". These are the top 10 dividend stocks in the site's database with the highest dividend yield that ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2009/11/09/10-ben-graham-dividend-stocks-for-the-enterprising-investor/ A while back I posted an example of how money managers can be hazardous to your financial health. Now Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money, has provided us with a more recent example of how blindly following financial "experts" can prove costly (and confusing). In this case it involves his ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2009/11/05/cramer-vs-cramer-on-lockheed-martin-a-buy-or-sell-sell-sell/ Two astute market observers - Robert Shiller and Jeremy Grantham - recently weighed in with their take on the market after its 60% run-up from the March lows and came to the same conclusion: it's once again overvalued. Not massively, mind you, but enough to cause concern. While ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2009/11/01/shiller-grantham-market-is-overvalued-again/ A recent post at the dividend investing blog Dividends Value lists the author's choices for the 10 Best U.S. Dividend Stocks. Not surprisingly these include such stellar dividend payers as Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, 3M and Abbott Laboratories to name a few, as well as four honorable ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2009/10/11/the-top-us-dividend-stocks-which-are-the-best-values-now/ Sporting low price-earnings multiples and ample dividend yields, utility stocks may be good values here says Andrew Bary of Barron's. In a recent article and accompanying short 1:09-minute video (see below), Bary argues that many utility shares could offer a total return of 15% or more over the coming year ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2009/09/16/6-utility-stocks-with-good-return-potential/ In addition to earnings, one of the things that determines a company's ability to keep paying a dividend is its level of free cash flow - the cash that a company has left over after paying its required operating expenses. With that in mind, a recent article in SmartMoney ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2009/09/12/3-dividend-stocks-with-high-free-cash-flow/ With the recent market run up - and with bargain dividend stocks becoming increasingly harder to find - I thought I'd step back for a moment and take a look at the "big picture" - in this case, some possible long-term market scenarios based loosely on Elliott Wave theory. I ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2009/07/26/three-long-term-elliott-wave-scenarios-for-the-sp-500/ A recent "debate" (see video below) between CNBC's Joe Kernen and money manager Robert Pavlik shows why listening to most money managers can be hazardous to your financial health. Pavlik (along with almost every other money manager Kernen had questioned earlier this year) had not been willing to step up ... http://dividendstocks4income.com/2009/06/14/why-money-managers-are-hazardous-to-your-financial-health/