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George L Smyth
George has been investing in stocks since 1992 and founded DripInvesting.org, the foremost authority on dividend investing (acquired in 2022 by Moneyzine). He began his investing journey late, realising he was behind in saving money for retirement and seeing an oncoming threat of college expenses for his two children. What seemed destined for failure was soon followed by success upon realising the advantages of long-term dividend investing. Aside from DripInvesting.org, George has held a role as a weekly contributing author at The Motley Fool, writing numerous articles about dividend investing.
Posts by George L Smyth
Understanding the Dividend
A company’s dividend is an important benefit to ownership of stock in a company. These dividends can be retailed or used to make additional ...
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Understanding the DRiP
Dividend Reinvestment Programs allow one to easily build their position in a company by automatically reinvesting dividends. Many of us go through a phase ...
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What Is A Dividend Champion?
Oddly enough, the simple definition of a Dividend Champion being a company that has increased their annual dividend each of the past 25 years ...
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Why Dividend Radar?
When we started out building the Dividend Radar, it was important to us that we produce a free, user-friendly tool for dividend growth investors ...
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Understanding Dividend Yield
Understanding the definition of the dividend yield is the easy part, what it means to the dividend investor is a matter of the current ...
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The Best Books for Dividend Investors – Introduction
There are numerous books devoted to the subject of dividend investing. In the coming year or so, I will offer information about many of ...
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Stock Tips are BunkStock Tips are BunkStock Tips are Bunk
There is a continuous array of articles that promote particular stocks to buy. While they may be useful as a starting point for consideration, ...
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Stock Rover and the Dividend Investor
Stock Rover is software that I recommend and I use regularly. From the perspective of a dividend investor, I find that it gives me ...
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Sensory Gating and Dividend Investing
Noise comes in many forms, and paying too close attention to it can alter the proper direction of the long-term dividend investor. The key ...
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Safety and the Dividend Champions – Part 3
The past two articles examined companies that had been removed from the Dividend Champions list due to dividend cuts. This final article considers whether ...
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Safety and the Dividend Champions – Part 2
Dividend Champions are companies that have survived the past two recessions. I wanted to understand why companies that historically had been Dividend Champions lost ...
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Safety and the Dividend Champions – Part 1
Recessions are hard on even the strongest of companies. Dividend Champions are companies that have survived at least the past two recessions. I wanted ...
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Safe Stocks for Dividend Investors
There are numerous metrics that one can examine when considering a stock purchase. Three numbers are especially helpful to the dividend investor. Dividend investors, ...
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Risk That Can Affect Your Portfolio
As dividend investors, there are numerous risks to our portfolio, even though risk moderation is an element of the strategy.Understanding risk, as well as ...
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Recessions and the Dividend Investor
Although our country has not been through a crisis of this magnitude since the Great Depression, experience can give us an idea as to ...
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Qualified vs. Unqualified Dividends
There is a big difference between qualified and unqualified dividends, and that difference could determine whether or not one will pay taxes on them. ...
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Perhaps It Is Not Time to Invest
Most people start investing without having the proper foundation in place. There are five tasks that should be accomplished before getting involved with investing. ...
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Mutual Funds and Dividend Investing
Dividend investing is not just for those who wish to actively research and select companies. Some mutual funds are focused on dividend companies and ...
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Lessons Learned
The past twenty-five years have offered boom and bust. There are lessons from the experience of these periods that apply to the current market ...
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Learning from Dividend Reductions
In July Codorus Valley Bancorp, a company that has increased their dividend annually each of the past nine years, announced that they were cutting ...
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Latest Dividend Champions List
Get the full and updated Dividend Champions list delivered straight to your inbox. If you’re looking for a way to generate income from stocks, ...
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InvestMete for Google Sheets
It may be more helpful to use InvestMete using Google Sheets. Fortunately, Google Sheets offers an easy way to get the information that is ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2011
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 98 BMO Bank of Montreal 84 ENB Enbridge 75 FTS.TO Fortis 71 TRP TransCanada Pipeline 59 BCE BCE, Inc. ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2010
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 56 ENB Enbridge 44 BMO Bank of Montreal 43 REI-UN.TO RioCan Realestate Investment Trust 40 FTS.TO Fortis 38 TRP ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2009
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 84 BMO Bank of Montreal 68 ENB Enbridge 52 FTS.TO Fortis 49 JNJ Johnson & Johnson 42 TRP TransCanada ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2008
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 51 JNJ Johnson & Johnson 43 ENB Enbridge 38 BMO Bank of Montreal 34 FTS.TO Fortis 30 PEP Pepsico ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2007
JNJ Johnson & Johnson 48 NA National Bank 40 PFE Pfizer Inc 34 WTR Aqua America 31 XOM Exxon Mobil 30 KO Coca Cola ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2006
JNJ Johnson & Johnson 38 WTR Aqua America 28 XOM Exxon Mobil 28 PFE Pfizer Inc 25 KO Coca Cola Co 23 MMM 3M ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2005
JNJ Johnson & Johnson 57 KO Coca Cola Co 37 PFE Pfizer Inc 36 WTR Aqua America 30 XOM Exxon Mobil 30 INTC Intel ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2004
JNJ Johnson & Johnson 46 PFE Pfizer Inc 34 XOM Exxon Mobil 31 INTC Intel Corp 27 GE General Elec Co 26 KO Coca ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2003
JNJ Johnson & Johnson 55 PFE Pfizer Inc 40 KO Coca Cola Co 33 INTC Intel Corp 33 PAYX Paychex Inc 29 XOM Exxon ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRip 2000
From the initial post on The Motley Fool, the following is a compilation of the responses to that post, as well as the information ...
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The Dividend Yield and Stock Price Connection
Buying for the dividend, in the long term, is also buying for the stock price. Fads dominate financial magazines. A quick survey of current ...
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The Dividend Discount Model for Dividend Investors
The Dividend Discount Model is a means of valuing a stock price that is relevant to dividend investors because the theory is based on ...
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The Best of All Worlds
Finding fee-free DRiPs and companies with a long history of increasing their dividend is a great place to start when researching additions to a ...
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The Best Books for Dividend Investors – The Intelligent Investor
There are numerous books available to the dividend investor. Before considering any of them, the essential reading is The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham. ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2019
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 16 BMO Bank of Montreal 14 BCE BCE, Inc. 11 CM Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) 9 FTS.TO ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2018
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 30 ENB Enbridge 30 BMO Bank of Montreal 24 TRP TransCanada Pipeline 23 BCE BCE, Inc. 21 EMA Emera ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2017
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 19 ENB Enbridge 16 BCE BCE, Inc. 15 BMO Bank of Montreal 14 JNJ Johnson & Johnson 13 TRP ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2016
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 40 BMO Bank of Montreal 36 ENB Enbridge 32 BCE BCE, Inc. 31 TRP TransCanada Pipeline 30 FTS.TO Fortis ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2015
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 35 BMO Bank of Montreal 31 BCE BCE, Inc. 25 ENB Enbridge 25 FTS.TO Fortis 23 JNJ Johnson & ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2014
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 49 BMO Bank of Montreal 41 ENB Enbridge 39 FTS.TO Fortis 33 REI-UN.TO RioCan Realestate Investment Trust 33 TRP ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2013
BCE BCE, Inc. 60 BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 55 BMO Bank of Montreal 54 TRP TransCanada Pipeline 44 ENB Enbridge 43 FTS.TO Fortis ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2012
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 38 BMO Bank of Montreal 33 ENB Enbridge 31 TRP TransCanada Pipeline 29 JNJ Johnson & Johnson 25 FTS.TO ...
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Two Ways to DRiP
There are a couple of good ways to be involved with dividend reinvestment programs, and one bad way. When I originally started writing about ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2021
BCE BCE, Inc. 8 BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 7 BMO Bank of Montreal 6 SLF Sun Life Financial 6 ENB Enbridge 5 AFL ...
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The DRiPs DRiPpers DRiP Results for 2020
BNS Bank of Nova Scotia 9 BCE BCE, Inc. 7 CM Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) 7 SLF Sun Life Financial 7 TRP ...
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InvestMete
InvestMete is a program that will offer suggestions as to the immediate allocation of regular purchases based on each company’s position within their 52-week ...
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The Dividend Investing Resource Center
Dividend Champions For the dividend investor, Dividend Champions are an essential part of the portfolio, and solve the primary problem with investing in dividend ...
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Dividend Champions, Achievers, Kings and Aristocrats – A Comparison against the Indexes
There are numerous lists that track the length of time companies have raised their dividend. Dividend Champions, Dividend Achievers, Dividend Kings, and Dividend Aristocrats ...
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Dividend Investing Books
This page contains Amazon Affiliate links, which help support this website. Favorites Suggested Reading As an Amazon Associate, qualifying purchases help support this website. ...
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Dividend Investing for Children
Allowing children to invest is less about the eventual financial returns, and more about learning to succeed financially. About 25 years ago I decided ...
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Dividend Investing for the Housebound
We are almost certainly in a recession. With the fall of stock prices throughout the economy, numerous prudent investment possibilities are there for the ...
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Dividend Investing Research
Recommend a Site Glossaries Canadian Interest Choices What companies do DRiPpers DRiP? Transfer Agents
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Dividend Investing Strategies – Dividend Growth
The dividend growth strategy allows for protection against volatility by relying on the growth of the company’s dividend to carry it through the wild ...
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Dividend Investing Strategies – Dogs of the DOW
Dogs of the DOW is a dividend investing strategy that has shown itself to hold up over time, comparing well against the S&P 500 ...
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Dividend Investing Strategies – Dogs of the DOW Variations
Dogs of the DOW is a dividend investing strategy that has held up over time. There are many published variations of this strategy, some ...
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Dividend Investing Strategies – Dollar Cost Averaging
There are numerous strategies for employing dividend investing, which range from the speculative to the conservative. Dollar-cost averaging is a conservative strategy, which I ...
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Dividend Investing Strategies – High Dividend Stocks
The high dividend stock strategy is like many other strategies in that it appears to be straightforward but contains some hidden risks.If one is ...
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Dividend Investing Strategies – InvestMete
The Dollar Cost Averaging strategy is quite flexible in the respect that many other strategies can use it as a basis for improvement. I ...
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Dividend Spreadsheet for Google Sheets
Everyone needs to be able to keep track of their portfolio and there are numerous means available to us for doing so. You can ...
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DRiP Choices 2001
Sort by Ticker Ticker Company Count INTC Intel Corp 109 JNJ Johnson&Johnson 87 KO Coca Cola Co 66 PFE Pfizer Inc 62 XOM Exxon ...
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DRiP Choices 2001T
Sort by Count Ticker Company Count AA Alcoa Inc. 2 ABI Applera 1 ABT Abbott Labs 14 ACAS American Capital Stratagies 1 ACOM Agency.com ...
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DRiP Choices 2002 Sorted By Popularity
Sort By Ticker Ticker Company Count INTC Intel Corp 76 JNJ Johnson&Johnson 64 PFE Pfizer Inc 46 XOM Exxon Mobil 38 GE General Elec ...
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DRiP Choices 2002 Sorted By Ticker
Sort by Popularity Ticker Company Count A Agilent 1 ABT Abbott Labs 16 ACAS American Capital Stratagies 1 ACI Arch Coal, Inc. 1 ACO ...
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Ensuring Dividend Survivability
The continuance of a dividend is never assured, but there are a number of things the investor can examine that will offer confidence of ...
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Future Dividend Champions – Cardinal Health
Cardinal Health is about to announce its dividend offering, which should make for 25 years of consecutive dividend growth. This soon-to-be Dividend Champion has ...
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Future Dividend Champions – Church and Dwight
You may not have heard of Church & Dwight, but you almost certainly have used Arm & Hammer Baking Soda, a perennial staple of ...
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Future Dividend Champions – Enbridge
If you are from Canada then you are familiar with this large company. If you are not from Canada then you will become familiar ...
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Future Dividend Champions – First of Long Island Corporation
With 24 consecutive years of dividend increases, First of Long Island Corporation is nearing the point where they will become a Dividend Champion. It ...
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Future Dividend Champions – IBM
IBM joined the elite Dividend Champions with their dividend increase in May which completed 25 straight years of dividend increases.I look at whether or ...
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Future Dividend Champions – New Jersey Resources
With 24 consecutive years of dividend increases, New Jersey Resources is on the cusp of becoming a Dividend Champion. New Jersey Resources provides natural ...
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Future Dividend Kings – National Fuel Gas Company
Some companies are on the cusp of becoming Dividend Kings – companies that have increased their dividends for 50 consecutive years. It is instructive ...
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Future Value of a Regular Investment
Calculator coming soon. Amount of regular purchases $ Expected percentage increase % Number of purchases per year Number of years Future Value $ This ...
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Historic Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers
2021 Dividend Champions 2020 Dividend Champions 2019 Dividend Champions 2018 Dividend Champions 2017 Dividend Champions 2016 Dividend Champions 2015 Dividend Champions 2014 Dividend Champions ...
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How Many Stocks Should You Own?
A reader asked me a question that boiled down to them wanting to know how many stocks should be in their portfolio. It is ...
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How to Minimize Taxes With Qualified Dividend Stocks
It would be understandable to question why an article about minimizing taxes on dividend stocks would appear following the submission of one’s tax forms. ...
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Investment Acronyms
Acronym Meaning Comments ABW Automatic Bank Withdrawal Canada Term – ACH ACB Adjusted Cost Base Average Cost of Buying More Once ACH Automatic Clearing ...
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Dividend Banking Stocks in Jeopardy
Banks have been a solid choice for dividend investors. However, the Federal Reserve might make banks a less safe choice for investors. The recession ...
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Cash Flow for the Dividend Investor
It is difficult to overstress the importance of cash flow to the dividend investor. Cash flow is the lifeblood of the company and holds ...
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Canadians and Fee-Free Dividend Reinvestment Programs
Canadians have a different set of issues to deal with than Americans. Numerous advantages we have in the U.S. are just not available in ...
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Are Dividend Reinvestment Programs Dead?
Dividend Reinvestment Programs have been a staple for acquiring shares for years. An alternative that supersedes this option is holding shares through a broker ...
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Alpha and Beta
Risk and reward are intertwined. Risk is acceptable if paired with an appropriate reward, and understanding how alpha and beta fit into the calculation ...
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A Dividend Spreadsheet for Google Sheets
There are many options for tracking purchases. Some options, while powerful, may be intimidating to the new or small investor. This dividend spreadsheet is ...
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6 Myths About 6 Problems With Dividend Investing
There are so many advantages to dividend investing that when I read about problems with the strategy, I tend to be skeptical. More often ...
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4 ETFs for Dividend Growth Investors
There are ETFs that cover pretty much any groupings one can think of and that includes issues of interest to long-term investors. I look ...
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The Dividend Investing Resource Center Discover how Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) can amplify your investment portfolio by automatically reinvesting company dividends into additional shares. ...
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