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Using Dividend Changes for Big Capital Gains
There is a way to take advantage of changes in the dividend payout ratio to generate big gains in the stock market. In this resource, you'll discover how changes in the dividend payout ratio can result in fluctuations in the underlying stock price that you can take advantage of through intelligent trading.

Use This Crisis as a Chance to Drastically Lower Your Cost Basis
You can lower your cost basis through dollar cost averaging and reinvested dividends. According to the work of Jeremy Siegel, this lower cost basis will allow you to generate higher profits if and when your shares return to the original purchase price, giving you a much higher net worth.

Why Boring is Almost Always More Profitable
Recently, I began to read Jeremy Siegel’s new book, The Future For Investors: Why the Tried and True Triumph Over the Bold and the New. As you can imagine, I’ve read a lot of finance, accounting, investing, business, and management books in my life as well as written one myself. It is no exaggeration to say that I think Siegel’s most recent treatise may be one of the most important books penned on the topic of portfolio management in the past twenty years.

Why Dividend Paying Stocks Tend to Fall Less During Bear Markets
There are four major reasons that dividend stocks fall less during bear markets. These guidelines will help you understand why some investors find dividend paying stocks more attractive and less risky than their non dividend paying stock counterparts.

Watch Out for the Dividend Trap
There are times when stocks fall faster than earnings and appear to have high dividend yields and low p/e ratios but are really experiencing what is known as valuation lag. The result is investors get caught in a value trap, buying stocks that look cheap but aren't nearly as attractive as they believed.

Real Life Investing: A Glimpse Into My Dividend Portfolio
We’ve often talked about the importance of reinvesting your dividends and how, over the long-term, it can lead to a dollar cost average effect and help you grow more wealth. I thought it would be useful to provide a real-life example from one of my very own personal retirement accounts. The power of the About.com model is that we can bring you content from those who are actually doing and living what we are writing about, so take a moment to peer into my own personal accounts.

What an Ice Cream Factory Can Teach You About Stocks
After visiting an ice cream factory known as the Blue Bell Creamery in Texas, I began to think about how business owners often manage their enterprises better than the average investor handles their portfolio. There are several lessons that can be taken for the average guy and professional alike when buying or selling stock certificates ...

Cash Dividends vs. Share Repurchases
Which is better for your portfolio as an investor - cash dividends or share repurchases designed to increase earnings per share? This article discusses the pros and cons of dividends and share repurchases and can help empower you to make an informed decision.

All About Dividends
A company's board of directors declares a dividend and establishes a date of record (the ex-dividend date) and a payment date. The dividend can take several forms including cash, stock or property.