Safe Dividend Investing
In 2000, I lost $300,000 in mutual funds that an investment advisor had put my lifesavings into.... I lost it because I had entrusted it to an industry that does not educate investors nor encourage them to look closely at what that industry is doing with their money..... I set out to find a better, safer way to invest..... My podcasts relate to what I learned in creating a generous, reliable income and in growing my wealth.... A few of the more important lessons I learned and explore are:.... (1) It is critical that you become a self-directed investor.....(2) If you can not easily measure the risk and potential in an investment, then do not invest in it. This excludes from your portfolio bundled investment devices, like mutual funds, ETFs and Index funds,..... (3) Financially strong companies who have paid “good dividends” for decades will continue to stay strong and continue to pay good dividends because it is both part of their "character" and in their executives selfish interest.....(4) Diversification is critical. Investing equally in the best 20 strong dividend stocks is the ideal.....A portfolio of 20 limits your risk in any one stock to 5% of your wealth..... No matter how strong you think a stock is, do not fall in love with it..... I have lived very well off my steady dividend income for 18 years, through two market crashes and one pandemic. I have watched my portfolio’s capital more than triple from where I started, despite taking out a generous dividend income every year to live on... In charts, for my second investment book,(Safer Better Dividend Investing), I spent months scoring all 628 dividend stocks paying dividends of 6% or greater traded on the TSX, NYSE and the NASDAQ. I discovered dozens of stocks that can provide not only a generous dividend income but outstanding capital growth.....Financial independence is realizable for careful, patient, dividend investors.
Episodes
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 235- (16 August 2025)
Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savin...
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 234 - (9 August 2025)
Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual stocks because they fear losing the savin...
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 232.
Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called “2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored”. It will take several months to complete. It is being written for those investors who fear making investment decisions. Many of them...
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 231
While identifying, recording, analyzing and scoring this week's 10 US and Canadian financially strong, high dividend stocks for the podcast, I found the following interesting:
The most expensive stock was < Cal-Maine Foods>at < $105.94>and <Brookfield Renewable > was the least expensive at <$27.20>
The stock with the highest dividend yiel...
Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 232. This week's podcast is a departure from the format of the last 40 podcasts. Today I am doing a comparison between three major US airlines : American Airlines Group Inc (AAL), United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) and Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL).
There are many large publicly traded companies on stock markets from which we buy merchandise and services . At times...
Welcome to Podcast 230 on July 12 of 2025t
Using stock trading volumes, dividend yield percentages, the previous week's highest share price gains, operating margin percentages, the 5 highest qualifying US common stocks and 5 Canadian common stocks were selected and then scored.
The 5 US stocks by name and stock symbol were: Civitas Resources (CIVI), Noble Corporation PLC (NE), Kilroy Realty Corporation (KRC), Mur...
Welcome to Podcast 229 on 5th of July, 2025:
This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.
5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) shares traded over 1M (4) price gain +5%. (5) share price exceeding $22.72
QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES: (1) NE Score 70 (2) CIVI Score 76 (3) LYB Score 59 (4) MUR Score 56 (5) WHR...
Welcome to Podcast 228 on 28thof June, 2025:
This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.
5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M price gain +1%.
QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES: (1) APAM Score 47(2) CPA Score 68 (3) MSB Score 44 (4) NVEC Score 56 (5) ITRN Score 55.
5 CANADIAN STOCK SELCTORS...
Welcome to Podcast 227 on 21st of June, 2025:
This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.
5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M (4) operating margins +10% (5) share prices + $13.26 (6) weekly share price gain +1%.
QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES: (1) ZIM Score 51 (2) FRO Score 61 (3) CIVI ...
Welcome to Podcast 226:
This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.
5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M (4) operating margins +21% (5) share prices + $20.24 (6) weekly share price gain +6%.
QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES: (1) CIVI Score 76 (2) APA Score 66 (3) NOG Score 69 (4) MUR Score...
Welcome to Podcast 225:
This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.
5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M (4) operating margins +16% (5) share prices + $10.35 (6) weekly hare price gain +8%.
QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES: (1) NE Score 72 (2) NOG Score 69 (3) APA Score 59 (4) KRC Score 66...
Welcome to Podcast 224:
This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.
5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M (4) operating margins +16% (5) share prices + $5.79 (6) weekly share price gain +4%.
QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES: (1) GOGL Score 50(2) NE Score 60 (3) SPG Score 69 (4) BXP Score 56...
Welcome to Podcast 223:
This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.
5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M (4) operating margins +5% (5) share prices + $9.10 (6) weekly share price gain +1%. QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES: (1) MO Score 63 (2) PFE Score 60 (3) TU Score 52 (4) ENB Score 68 (...
Welcome to Podcast 222:
This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.
5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M (4) operating margins +25% (5) share prices + $22.97 (6) weekly share price gain +6%. QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES: (1) WES Score 63 (2) MPLX LP Score 66 (3) CIVI Score 78 (4) CALM...
THIS WEEK'S 10 BEST HIGH DIVIDEND GROWTH STOCKS
U.S SELECTORS (1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M (4) operating margins +5% (5) share prices + $25.61 (6) weekly share price gain +5%.QUALIFIERS & SCORES: (1)Antero Midstream Corp (AM) Score 54(2)T. Rowe Price Group Inc (TROW) Score 59 (3) Energy Transfer LP (ET ) Score 62 (4) Franklin Resources Inc (BEN) Score 58 (5)Whirlpoo...
Welcome to Podcast 220 of Safe Dividend Investing on May 3rd of 2025.
Be sure to visit the written transcript attached this podcast to find more information on each stock that was scored.
You may also want to visit Podcast 210 where in that printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains, in easily understood language, how and why the IDM stock scoring system works. The IDM stoc...
Welcome to Podcast 219 of Safe Dividend Investing on the 26th of April of 2025.
Be sure to visit the written transcript attached this podcast to find more information on each stock that was scored.
You may also want visit Podcast 210 where in that printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains, in easily understood language, how the IDM stock scoring system works. Using this in...
21 April 2025
US INVASION PLANS FOR CANADA
My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald. Today’s podcast is a departure from my usual Saturday dividend podcasts. It explores the conflict currently going on between Canada and the United States.
A few days ago a podcast listener was excited to discover in my novel, “USING DROUGHT USA” that I had predicted a situation where the president of the United States would initiate a plan t...
Welcome to Podcast 217of Safe Dividend Investing on the 19th of April of 2025.
Be sure to visit the written transcript attached this podcast to find more information on each stock that was scored.
You may also want visit Podcast 210 where in that printed transcript, you will find Chapter 4 from my investment guidebooks. It explains, in easily understood language, how the IDM stock scoring system works. Using this inf...
SAFE DIVIDEND INVESTING'S
US & CANADIAN INCOME TAX SUPPLEMENT
In response to listeners enquiries I explain in this short podcast the differences between what US dividend investors have to pay in income tax and the tax break that Canadian dividend investors can receive.
Ian Duncan MacDonald
www.informus.ca
imacd@informus.ca
Podcast: Safe Dividend Investing
6 Dividend Investing Guides at amazon.com including:
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