Dividend and Income Online Resources

Readings on Dividend Growth

[1] Why Dividend Growth - Historical Research on Dividend Investing
[2] The Power of Dividends: Past, Present, and Future
[3] In Dividend Growth, Quality Makes All the Difference
[4] Dividend Growth Indexes and ETF Holdings
[5] Popular Lifetime Income Strategies Explained

Dividend Growth Record

The Nasdaq's Dividend History website provides a single page to review all of the aggregated Dividend payments and all other market information for any stock after you enter the symbol.

Yahoo Finance has an excellent, easy to navigate layout. It is one of the most popular financial information platforms in the US. When you are looking for the history of dividend payments on a stock quote page, click on "Historical Data"; select "Dividends Only" (instead of "Historical Prices") and a Time Period, and then click on Apply.

The history of dividend increases is the most important metric for dividend growth investors. All you need to do is entering the stock symbol (e.g., JNJ) at the Dividend Information website. Ultimately, you want to find a dividend stock that is stable, consistent, in a growth industry, and belonging to a well-managed company.
StreetInsider.com offers timely market information that gives investors and traders the edge to make smart investing decisions. Its simple dividend history page is the easiest and cleanest presentation for DIY income investors to look up any company's stock dividend payment history.

Dividend Growth Research

Investing.com is a financial markets platform providing real-time data, quotes, charts, financial tools, breaking news, and analysis across 250 exchanges. It may be a little bit too overwhelming for DIY income investors. But it does include very comprehensive real-time information such as a Dividend Calendar.

Google Alerts is a content change detection and notification service. The service sends emails to the user when it finds new results that match the user's search term. Income DIY investors can create customized Google Alerts with keywords such as Dividend Growth. You will then automatically receive the relevant content every day.

What's the easiest way to find the highest rated dividend growth stocks? Dividata publishes a list of top rated dividend paying stocks. These stocks are sorted in descending order based on the size of their market capitalization and ratings. You can click on the stock symbol to further get their dividend history, stock metrics, and fundamentals.

Stock insider buys can provide the most accurate reflection of the prospects for the company going forward. Since insiders have exclusive information on the company performance, if they are risking their own money on the stock, usually they should have good reasons, especially when several insiders buy the stock at the same time.

Earnings Whispers is a research firm that focuses on gathering the most accurate earnings expectations for upcoming earnings releases. Earnings Whispers publishes an earnings calendar. It has been the go-to source for dividend stock earnings expectations by professionals and DIY investors.

Bond Research

EMMA is designated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as the official source for municipal bonds data and disclosure documents.  The website provides free public access to objective municipal market information and interactive tools for investors.

FINRA's Bond Section includes general bond market information such as news, benchmark yields, and corporate bond market activity and performance information, descriptive data on U.S. Treasury, Agency, Corporate and Municipal Bonds, Credit Rating Information from major rating agencies, and price information with real-time transaction prices.

Prefered Stock Research

QuantumOnline.com is your best source on the Internet for completely unbiased information on preferred stocks and other exchange-traded income investments.

Closed-End Fund Research

CEFConnect provides unbiased, straightforward, and comprehensive closed-end fund information. By providing the latest closed-end fund data, you can screen, sort, and explore the latest CEF research, news, and videos. 

Annuity Research

An annuity is a retirement product offered by an insurance company. Unlike stock and bond market investments, annuities offer guarantees backed by the financial strength of the insurer. Be sure you understand all charges before you invest in an annuity. Besides surrender charges, there could be a number of other charges.

Blueprint Income works with more than 30 of the world’s top insurance companies to create the most competitive marketplace of annuities. Typically, the annuity contract provides guaranteed lifetime income or a guaranteed return.

REIT Research

Most REITs are traded on major stock exchanges, but there are also public non-listed and private REITs. The two main types of REITs are equity REITs and mortgage REITs (mREITs). Equity REITs generate income through the collection of rent on, and from sales of, the properties they own for the long-term. mREITs invest in mortgages or mortgage securities tied to commercial and/or residential properties.

MLP Research

Master limited partnerships (MLPs) are some of the most misunderstood investment vehicles in the public markets. This article covers MLPs in depth, including the history of MLPs, unique tax consequences, and risk factors of MLPs, 
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