Everyday Freethought

One of the topics of this blog is dividend investing.

My motto is: If a stock does not pay, then I do not play.

Here are some dividend investing blogs that I look at:

• Buy Hold Long – Dividend Investor in Australia
• The Conservative Income Investor –
• DGI for the DYI – As of 2019-01-20, this site was last updated on 2018-09-15. However, it looks like he has posted articles on Seeking Alpha, with the latest on 2018-12-18.
• DivGro – Another huge blog roll.
• Dividends 4 Life – Dividend News Articles
• Dividend Cake – A blogger in Belgium.
• Dividend Channel – More of a news site than a blog.
• Dividend Daze –
• Dividend Detective – good information, terrible layout
• Dividend Diplomats –
• Dividend Driven – has a huge blogroll, which includes yours truly. It is so extensive, I may stop updating this page (2016-11-25_08.31.54).
• Dividend Family Guy – As of 2019-11-03, this is now a landing site for porn.
• Dividend Growth Forum – Exactly what it says.
• Dividend Growth Stocks – a good site
• Dividend Growth Investing –
• Dividend Growth Investing and Retirement – Not as long a URL as Has the Large Hadron Collider Destroyed the World Yet, but close. This blogger is based in Canada. As of 2019-05-12, they have not posted since 2019-02-04.
• Dividend Growth Investor – one of the better sites
• The Dividend Guy –
• Dividend Hawk –
• DivHut – A site with a large blogroll.
• Dividend Life – You have to choose the dividend life. It won’t choose you.
• Dividend Manager –
• Dividend Mantra – this one really went downhill, but it does have a thorough (although unsorted) blogroll.
• The Dividend Mogul –
• Dividend Monk –
• Dividend Pig –
• Dividend Sensei – Nice blog. His posts are hosted on other sites.
• Dividend Stacker – There was a guy blogging as “Dividend Slacker”, but eventually he stopped.
• Dividend Swan –
• Dividend Value Builder –
• Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment – This has a lot on the front page. To see their latest blog posts, I think you need to go to their Atom feed.
• Engineering Dividends – A blog with a VERY large header graphic. If there is a blog out there called “Designing Dividends”, they should give this guy a call.
• Income Investors –
• Mr. Tako Escapes – More geared towards financial independence than dividends, but dividends seems to be a major topic.
• My Dividend Pipeline – He has a spreadsheet where he posts his dividend income. It looks like most of his posts track his overall net worth.
• Passive Income Pursuit –
• Roadmap2Retire – About passive income, but lots of dividends, big blogroll
• Seeking Alpha – Lots of authors here. Here is their Dividend Investing Strategy page.
• Simply Safe Dividends – A site with a nice blog. Their blog timeline has infinite scroll, which I absolutely hate.
• Sure Dividend – one of the better sites
• World Of Dividends – A blog from Sweden. As of 2019-05-12, the last post was on 2018-05-22.

Defunct sites:

• Agent Dividend – defunct as of 2018-12-09_09.17.29
• Captain Dividend – defunct as of 2018-11-03_13.56.03
• Dividend Engineering – defunct as of 2018-12-09_09.21.46
• Dividend Tactics – Now going to a Chinese landing page as of 2018-12-09_09.31.56

Other dividend websites:

• Motley Fool articles on dividend stocks
• S&P Dividend Aristocrats –
• Dividend Achievers –
• Dividend Assets Capital – An investment firm that specializes in DGI –
• DRiP Investing Center – This page started the great Dividend Champions Spreadsheet. Historical archive here. The spreadsheet is now updated at Dividend Radar; updated every Friday.
• Dividend page at the Wall Street Journal.
• Miller/Howard Investments – Another firm that advocates dividend investing. They even have a book about it.

I have a few posts looking at some dividend indices:

• Dow Jones U.S. Dividend 100 Index – post here –
• US Dividend Achievers Select Index – post here –
• FTSE High Dividend Yield Index – post here –
• Morningstar US Dividend Growth Index (methodology files link needs to be updated) – post here –
• S&P Global Dividend Aristocrats Index – post here –
• The S&P Dividend Aristocrats and the S&P High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats – post here –

Following the style of David Fish (creator of the Dividend Champions spreadsheet), I refer to the first month of a quarter (January, April, July and October) as the “A” months, the second month of a quarter (February, May, August and November) as the “B” months, and the third month of a quarter (March, June, September and December) as the “C” months.

The Dividend Champion list divides companies into three categories depending on how long they have been raising their dividends: Champions (25 or more years), Contenders (10 to 24 years), and Challengers (5 to 9 years). Even if you using just ETFs (as I am), it is still a good idea to look at this list once in a while because it will tell you how many companies are raising dividends, and in my opinion give you a tool to gauge the health of the economy. Here is a table for the breakdown of CCC companies for January of each year (since that just seems to make more sense):

“Angel In Chains” by Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916), at what is presumably the official Odilon Redon website; assumed allowed under Fair Use.

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