ITW News and Press, Illinois Tool Works Inc. From 10/18/18

(Source: imgflip ) One of my favorite things is pointing out quality dividend growth stocks when they are trading at deep discounts. That includes dividend aristocrats, those companies with 25+ consecutive years of annual dividend growth under their belts. These time tested blue chips hav...

Introduction We remain in one of the longest bull markets in history. Generally, with bull markets stocks tend to become highly valued. Additionally, we also continue to find ourselves in a low interest rate environment based on historical standards. However, after bottoming out in Janua...

This is the third article of this series focusing solely on dividend income to beat a recession. While price may fall in a recession, dividends may rise. In the first article " Beat The Recession With Dividends ," I created three portfolios of safe high-yield dividend aristocrats with a combin...

(Source: imgflip ) Note that due to reader requests, I've decided to break up my weekly portfolio updates into three parts: commentary, economic update, and portfolio summary, stats, and watchlists. This is to avoid excessively long articles and maximize the utility to my readers. Thi...

Illinois Tool Works ( ITW ) is a company that I wrote about buying back in August . I initiated exposure to this dividend aristocrat after it announced a surprising 28.2% dividend increase. For months I'd been watching ITW as it fell from prior highs as the globalized industrial names sold of...

Let's say you already have a million dollar portfolio, mostly invested in the index funds. The bull market of the last 10 years has helped your portfolio tremendously due to the outperformance of the broad market indexes. It has been difficult for most people and strategies to beat the broad m...

The High Yield Dividend Champion Portfolio is a publicly tracked stock portfolio on Scott's Investments. The goal is to capture quality high yield stocks with a history of raising dividends. The screening process for this portfolio starts with the "Dividend Champions" as compiled by DRIP Inv...

(Source: imgflip ) Note that due to reader requests, I've decided to break up my weekly portfolio updates into three parts: commentary, economic update, and portfolio summary, stats, and watch lists. This is to avoid excessively long articles and maximize the utility to my readers. ...

Ummm, well, I guess don’t have much in the way of interesting or insightful introductory thoughts for this portfolio update. My portfolio just keeps chugging along producing more and more dividends. So let’s just proceed with the data. First, if you wish to review my previous q...

Welcome to the Q3-2018 review of DivGro, my portfolio of dividend growth stocks. My quarterly reviews provide a summary of dividend income, dividend changes, and transactions executed in the past quarter. I also provide some charts showing various portfolio statistics. While these reviews ...