Investing for income through dividends and distributions
As I’ve posted before I have two stock portfolios right now. One is fairly conservative and is an IRA. I’m investing that one for long term growth since I can’t touch it until I hit 59 1/2 years old. The second one carries a little more risk and is invested to bring me monthly income.…
Dividend Yield Theory is the idea that a Blue Chip company’s dividend yield should hover around it’s average over some long period of time. Blue chip companies are boring, stable, and have business models that don’t change much. They are not necessarily growth companies like tech stocks but should maintain a stable stock price and…

The logo I created before was a bit too busy. It was also very literal and I didn’t like it. This one is maybe off the mark but it’s simpler.
Oil prices have rebounded post-pandemic. Oil prices have staged a rapid recovery since the biggest crisis to strike the energy industry in decades. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies stepped in last spring to backstop the market by slashing production in the teeth of a collapse in crude prices. This week,…

I don’t understand why a company’s stock prices moves up or down. I’ve never understood it. I watched Microsoft’s stock hover at $26.00 for a decade until Steve Ballmer stepped aside. It didn’t make sense to me because Microsoft at the time was way larger than Apple and they were making money hand over fist.…
The month of February was pretty good for my portfolio. All in all my annual income increased by $113.00 from investments in 8 companies. T. Rowe Price (TROW) was by far my biggest mover. They increased their dividend by 20%. It’s dividend went to $1.08 per share from $0.90 per share. Coca-Cola (KO) announced a…