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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.

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Podcast 200 - PFIZER INC - BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB- DARDEN RESTAURANTS -EXCHANGE INCOME CORP -ENTERGY CORP

December 21, 2024 • Ian Duncan MacDonald

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Welcome to this week's Safe Dividend Investing's podcast. For greater accuracy, you may want to go to the printed transcript provided with this podcast for the list of 5 outstanding US stocks and 5 outstanding Canadian stocks identified this week. It is interesting to see how scoring these 10 stocks revealed their hidden strengths and weaknesses that were not initially evident.

The first 190 Safe Dividend Investing podcasts answered questions from listeners and readers of my publications. Not wanting to repeat the same material that had already been covered, the weekly podcasts now deal with identifying interesting stocks whose growth in the last week may make them worth considering as possible portfolio acquisitions.

Visit www.informus.ca for information on my six investment guide books and stock scoring software.

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Pod 200 - 21 Dec 2024

Safe Dividend Investing-

Greetings to listeners all around the world. Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 200, on December 21 of 2024. My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald.

In the 4,000 minutes that were recorded for the first 190 Podcasts of Safe Dividend Investing, you can find answers to hundreds of investment questions.

Starting with Podcast 191 my podcast format changed. Each week, I now sift through the 17,000 of stocks traded in North America to bring to your attention the 10 most outstanding dividend stocks who have gained in share price. Their score calculation appears along with the five criteria that were used in finding them.

If you have not already obtained the stock scoring software that I supply free to those who purchase my investment guidebooks, please visit my website www.informus.ca where you can learn more about it. Scoring has helped many investors quickly sort out the best financially strong stocks with high dividend payouts for their portfolios.

While the score is calculated out of a possible 100, the highest score I have ever calculated, out of the thousands a I have scored, was a 78. The lowest was a 5. I personally prefer stocks scoring over 50 in my portfolio.

I am not an investment advisor. I am an “investment educator” trying to provide enough insight into judging the value of a stock that you can easily make decisions on which stocks will safely add both good income and wealth to your portfolio.

THE TEN OUTSTANDING US & CANADIAN STOCKS FOR 21 DEC 2024

The following 5 US & 5 Canadian stocks qualified because they exceeded the following criteria.

(1) Trading volume exceeding one million in US shares and 52,000 in Canadian shares.

(2) A US and Canada dividend yield percents exceeding 3%.

(3) A weekly share price gain exceeding 1% in the US and Canada.

(4) US share price exceeding $1.05 and exceeding $1.51 in Canada.

(5) A US Operating Margin Exceeding 7% and 1% in Canada

The 5 US stocks were:

1.Pfizer Inc (PFE: NYSE)...........................SCORE = 56

2.AbbVie Inc (ABBV: NYSE)………………….SCORE = 61

3. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co (BMY:NYSE) .SCORE = 49

4. Entergy Corp (ETR: NYSE)………………..SCORE = 71

5. Darden Restaurants Inc (DRI: NYSE)…..SCORE = 66

The 5 Canadian stocks were:

1. Amerigo Resources Ltd (ARG: TSX)..SCORE = 39

2. Exhange Income Corp (EIF: TSX) ….SCORE= 60

3. Extendicare Inc (EXE: TSX)…………..SCORE = 42

4. The Northwest Co Inc (NWC: TSX) ..SCORE = 53

5. Dexterra Group Inc (DXT: TSX)……….SCORE = 41

The scores were calculated using the following data elements:

( 1$) Current Share Price
(2$) Share Price 4 years Ago
(3$) Book Value of the Stock
(4#) Analysts Rating the Stock a Buy
(5$) Analysts Rating the Stock a Strong Buy
(6%) Dividend Yield Percent
(7%) Operating Margin Percent
8#) Volume of Shares Traded
(9x) Price to Earnings Ratio

If you go to the transcript for this podcast you can see all nine data elements that contributed to the scores for each of the 10 stocks in this week's podcast.

DATA
ELEMENTS USED ( 1$ ) ( 2$) (3$) (4#) (5#) (6%) (7%) ( 8#) (9x)

STOCK SYMBOL USA TOP 5 GAINING STOCKS THIS WEEK
& SCORE

PFE= 56...............26.36.....37.88......15.77.....7....1......6.53....5.07 ...116m .....35.4x
ABBV= 61 ............175.58.....103.26....5.87....13...0....3.74....24.89...18.9m....61.3x
BMY= 49............. 57.33 .....62.03...14.56......6...0.....4.33...-12.0...48.2m...-15.9x
ETR= 71............... 75.13..... 49.92...70.30.....9...0.....3.19.....18.87...6.8m..... 9.2x
DRI= 66 .............187.59......119.12... 18.86...12...0....2.99 ...11.61... 4.1m.....21.4x

CANADIAN TOP GAINING STOCKS THIS WEEK

ARG = 39 ..............1.62.......0.80......0.91.......0....0.....7.41.....18.92....195k....9.2x
EIF = 60 .............56.39.....35.58... 26.42......7.....0....4.68....11.38.....142k.....23.0x
EXE= 42..............10.31.........6.64...1.06..........0...0.....4.66....6.98....138k.....20.1x
NWC= 53..............48.82......33.32...14.39.......0....1.....3.28.....7.88...128k......18.1x
DXT= 41 ................7.70.........6.21.....4.45... ..0...0.... 4.55......5.14....69k.....16.8x

The most expensive stock was Darden Restaurants at $187.59 and Amerigo Resources was the least expensive at $1.62.

The most buy recommendations by analysts was 12 for Darden Restaurants. The least number of recommendations were for three stocks that had no recommendations. They were Amerigo Resources, Extendicare and Dexterra Group. It had none. Two stocks had one strong buy recommendation each. They were The Northwest Company and Pfizer Inc.

The highest Book Value was for Entergy Corp at $70.30 and the lowest was Extendicare Inc at $1.06.

The highest number of shares traded was Pfizer at 116,340,073 and the lowest number of shares traded was for The Northwest Company at 127,591.

The highest dividend yield percentage was for Amerigo Resources at 7.41%. The lowest dividend yield was for Entergy Corp at 3.10%.

The highest operating margin was AbbVie Inc at 24.89% and the lowest was minus -12.02 % for Bristol-Myers Squibb.

The highest price to earnings ratio was 61.3x for AbbVie Inc and the lowest was a minus figure for Bristol-Myers Squibb of -15.9x.

The stock with the highest IDM score was Entergy Corp with a score of 71 and the lowest score was Amerigo Resources with a 39.

Scoring stocks gives you an objective measure to compare and judge the potential and value of each stock. It is strongly recommended just before you purchase any stock that you always do your due diligence and score the stock to make sure you have a good understanding of its current strength

Investment companies work hard to convince the public that they could never invest profitably without allowing the financial industry to nibble away at a client’s life savings for the rest of their lives. The objective of advisors is to transfer as much money from your pocket to the pocket of the financial institution that employs them.

I knew 24 years ago that I had to find a better way to invest when I saw a $300,000 loss in the mutual funds an investment advisor had put my life savings into. Since then, I have learned if you are patient and disciplined you can easily grow your portfolio as a self-directed investor without paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in charges over your lifetime to the investment industry parasites.

Most investors are speculators see their wealth destroyed when their bet on a stock increasing in price falls below their purchase price and they panic. Unfortunately no one can accurately predict future share prices.I became a successful self-directed investor by carefully selecting and buying 20 financially strong, high dividend stocks. I have never been disappointed in my income or my portfolio's gain in value from these20 stocks that have paid ever increasing dividend payments out of their company profits. While share prices are determined by impulsive speculators making guesses, my dividend payouts are the result of the wise revenue and expense decisions of the experienced managers of the companies whose shares I own.

By looking at free, accessible records going back for decades, anyone can easily see how stock’s fluctuating share price has had little or no impact on a stock’s rising dividend payouts.

Even when a market crash drops sine if my share prices by 50%, I relax and do nothing because I live off my dividends. Those dividends are paid throughout the crash as regularly as they have always been paid by these strong stocks. I know the share prices of my financially strong stocks will eventually recover and grow to new record high values as they have always done.

The value of my portfolio has grown by several multiples into the 7 figures and is still growing. I suspect the investment industry propaganda that your portfolio must shrink in value after you retire is meant to scare you into buying more of their investment products. I go for years without selling any of the stocks in my portfolio while realizing a dividend income of 6 to 8 percent each year of the value of my portfolio. Most years the share prices of my 20 strong companies can also increase by about 12%.

Rising share prices often cause the company’s managers to proudly increase their dividend payouts to maintain their stock’s historically high dividend yield percentages. That keeps your dividend income well ahead of inflation. For more information on building a strong dividend portfolio go to www.informus.ca