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Some companies hand shareholders extra shares every year instead of raising the cash dividend, and it looks like free money. It isn't. In this video, I break down what a stock dividend actually is, why your broker records it as a stock split, and why selling those bonus shares to create a higher "yield" is really just a withdrawal from your own account. We look at what happens to the share price the morning after, and check the one number that settles the argument: 20-year total return with dividends reinvested, measured against the S&P 500. If you own Dividend Kings for the streak, or you've ever seen a stock with 60 straight years of dividend growth and assumed the payment kept going up, this one is worth nine minutes. Covers Tootsie Roll Industries (TR) and Commerce Bancshares (CBSH), dividend safety scores, payout ratios, and why the growth of the underlying business matters more than any yield on a screener.
DISCLOSURE: This video is sponsored by Seeking Alpha. I'm also an affiliate for Seeking Alpha and Simply Safe Dividends, and I earn a commission if you subscribe through my links. Quant Growth & Income is a hypothetical model portfolio, not real money, and does not reflect actual trading activity. Opinions are my own and may not reflect those of Seeking Alpha. Nothing in this video is a recommendation that any investment is right for your specific situation. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do your own research.
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Pool Corp (POOL) is down 44% from its high, and Hershey (HSY) is near a 52-week low — and both raised their dividends while the stock fell. POOL yields 2.76%, and HSY yields 3.06%. In this video, I walk through Simply Safe Dividends on both: dividend safety, valuation, growth, and returns on capital. I explain why I think both dips are temporary, and why I have no idea whether temporary means months or years. Neither of these is a recommendation. Both are on my watchlist.
DISCLOSURE: This video is sponsored by Seeking Alpha. I'm also an affiliate for Seeking Alpha and Simply Safe Dividends, and I earn a commission if you subscribe through my links. Quant Growth & Income is a hypothetical model portfolio, not real money, and does not reflect actual trading activity. Opinions are my own and may not reflect those of Seeking Alpha. Nothing in this video is a recommendation that any investment is right for your specific situation. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Do your own research.🤑 Special Offer - One FREE Month of Simply Safe Dividends... no credit card required! 👉 CLICK HERE!Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: CLICK HERE! (affiliate)🔥 SPECIAL OFFERS: Seeking Alpha Premium offers my viewers 7 FREE days plus $30 off! This is the exact platform I use for my own research and stock analysis. Check it out here💰Seeking Alpha Quant Growth and Income offers my viewers $50 off their first year! This is for serious dividend investors looking for income AND stock price appreciation! Use this link!P.S. Those are my affiliate links - thanks for the support!
Special Offer - One FREE Month of Simply Safe Dividends... no credit card required! Click HERE!
📊 Track these picks and all Dapper Dividends recommendations in the spreadsheet
Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/russ (affiliate)
Email Russ: 👉 [email protected]
🔔 Follow along with my dividend journey:
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Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
Shaun | @ParlayBros is back on the channel three years later, and he's stopped adding to the high-dividend payers that built his income — including Altria, still his largest position- and he's doing something most dividend investors would never do on purpose: he's selling his high-yield dividend stocks and moving that money into low-yield ETFs and compounders. He calls it his bonsai tree approach — pruning the portfolio so it grows the shape he actually wants instead of just paying him the most cash today. In this conversation, we walk through his seven stages of investing, the ten ETFs he's buying right now, what he'd do differently if he were starting over, and what he'd tell someone with $500 a month to invest and no idea where to begin. We also get into the stocks that are hard to buy, why Costco is a low-risk, high-uncertainty situation in the Dhandho sense, and how to survive the boring middle of a long investing journey without quitting. If you own SCHD, Realty Income, ARCC, or any other high-yield dividend stock and you've wondered whether chasing yield is the right move as your account gets bigger, this one is worth your time. Real talk about dividend investing, dividend growth, portfolio strategy, and the mistakes that cost him money along the way.
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Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
I tested 69 covered call and options-income ETFs against the assets they're built on — every fund from its own inception date through August 7, 2026, total return with all distributions reinvested. Only 4 beat their benchmark, and every one of those four had a flat or falling underlying, used leverage, or wasn't actually a covered call fund. Not one beat its benchmark by writing calls on an asset that was going up. This video explains why covered call ETFs like GOOY, QYLD, JEPI, TSLY, SPYI, and QQQI underperform buy-and-hold, what a covered call actually trades away, why a "distribution" is not a dividend, and how return of capital can hand you back your own money while the share price sinks. The full spreadsheet with every fund, inception date, and total return number is linked below so you can check the work yourself.
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Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/russ (affiliate)
Email Russ: 👉 [email protected]
🔔 Follow along with my dividend journey:
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Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
I used the Simply Safe Dividends stock screener to find dividend stocks with yields of 4% or higher, safe dividends, low valuations, and strong returns on capital. Five companies made the cut: Watsco (WSO), Paychex (PAYX), Amdocs (DOX), PepsiCo (PEP), and T. Rowe Price (TROW). For each one, I explain in plain English why the stock is down, what the business actually does, and what I would want to see before buying it. I also show why a high dividend yield is not free money — yield rises when the price falls, so screening for high yields means finding companies the market is worried about. At the end, I reveal my full $730,000 dividend portfolio.
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Hartford Funds Power of Dividends study
📊 Track these picks and all Dapper Dividends recommendations in the spreadsheet
Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/russ (affiliate)
Email Russ: 👉 [email protected]
🔔 Follow along with my dividend journey:
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FREE eBook on Life, Love, and Investing.
Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
This is our full investment portfolio reveal — every single stock and fund my wife and I own, worth about $730,000 and growing toward our goal of a $1 million portfolio. I walk through all 24 holdings one by one, share what's new with each one, and show you how we're now earning almost $11,000 a year in dividends. Whether you've followed the channel for years or just stumbled in today, you'll get a simple, honest look at how a regular family is building wealth with index funds, dividend stocks, and a few bets along the way.[Link to YouTube Video]
Special Offer - One FREE Month of Simply Safe Dividends... no credit card required! Click HERE!
Hartford Funds Power of Dividends study
📊 Track these picks and all Dapper Dividends recommendations in the spreadsheet
Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/russ (affiliate)
Email Russ: 👉 [email protected]
🔔 Follow along with my dividend journey:
→ Website
→ YouTube Channel
→ Newsletter
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FREE eBook on Life, Love, and Investing.
Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
Dividend investing explained for beginners, fast. If a $100 stock pays a $5 dividend, do you have $105 — or $95 plus $5 in cash? Meb Faber's survey found only about 1 in 4 everyday investors get it right. I cover why dividends aren't free money, why a high dividend yield is often a warning sign (GE, Kraft Heinz, AT&T, Intel, Walgreens all cut theirs), and the one rule that matters most: buy the company, not the dividend. Plus, I show you how to check if a dividend is actually safe for free using the free cash flow payout ratio — and why the earnings payout ratio most websites show you can be misleading. If you're wondering how dividends work or whether high-yield dividend stocks are a good idea, this is the 7-minute version.[Link to YouTube Video]
Special Offer - One FREE Month of Simply Safe Dividends... no credit card required! Click HERE!
Hartford Funds Power of Dividends study
📊 Track these picks and all Dapper Dividends recommendations in the spreadsheet
Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/russ (affiliate)
Email Russ: 👉 [email protected]
🔔 Follow along with my dividend journey:
→ Website
→ YouTube Channel
→ Newsletter
→ Blossom
Check out my portfolios and FREE Weekly Newsletter signup: https://dapperdividends.com
FREE eBook on Life, Love, and Investing.
Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
Lisa J-Stocks | @LisaJStocks bought VTI for over three years straight — then she stopped. In this interview, she explains why she shifted to growth, the two stocks she's buying now (SPMO and SMH), and the simple mindset trick that keeps her investing no matter what: treat it like a bill you have to pay. We hear about her top holding, FXAIX, the monthly dividend stocks she still owns (and how they're really doing), and the hard lesson behind her favorite line: "When you know better, you do better."[Link to YouTube Video]
Find out more about OVL from the horse's mouth HERE
Warren Buffett's 2012 Annual Shareholder Letter
Special Offer - One FREE Month of Simply Safe Dividends... no credit card required! Click HERE!
📊 Track these picks and all Dapper Dividends recommendations in the spreadsheet
Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/russ (affiliate)
Email Russ: 👉 [email protected]
🔔 Follow along with my dividend journey:
→ Website
→ YouTube Channel
→ Newsletter
→ Blossom
Check out my portfolios and FREE Weekly Newsletter signup: https://dapperdividends.com
FREE eBook on Life, Love, and Investing.
Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
So I kept hearing about this ETF called OVL — it's beaten the S&P 500 since 2019, and now it pays you over 10% a year in monthly checks. Sounded like a cheat code, so I popped the hood. In this one, I break down what's actually inside OVL (spoiler: it's basically VOO), how it uses options to juice that yield, where that 10% monthly payout really comes from, why the fee is 26x higher than VOO, what "return of capital" actually means for your taxes, and who it's really a good fit for. If you've ever wondered whether OVL beats just buying VOO, this'll save you the homework. Educational only — not investment advice. [Link to YouTube Video]
Find out more about OVL from the horse's mouth HERE
Warren Buffett's 2012 Annual Shareholder Letter
Special Offer - One FREE Month of Simply Safe Dividends... no credit card required! Click HERE!
📊 Track these picks and all Dapper Dividends recommendations in the spreadsheet
Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/russ (affiliate)
Email Russ: 👉 [email protected]
🔔 Follow along with my dividend journey:
→ Website
→ YouTube Channel
→ Newsletter
→ Blossom
Check out my portfolios and FREE Weekly Newsletter signup: https://dapperdividends.com
FREE eBook on Life, Love, and Investing.
Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
VOO pays about 1% a year. This ETF — OVL, the Overlay Shares Large Cap Equity ETF — pays 10.5%, drops a check in your account every month, and has actually beaten the S&P 500 since 2019. So is OVL really a better buy than VOO… or is that 10.5% yield too good to be true?In this beginner-friendly breakdown, Penny and Buck walk through it step by step: why a dividend doesn't actually make you richer (with Warren Buffett's famous example), how OVL's put-spread option strategy works in plain English, what "return of capital" means for your taxes, why OVL's 0.79% expense ratio matters next to VOO's 0.03%, and the one big test this fund has never faced. By the end, you'll be able to decide for yourself whether OVL belongs in your portfolio — as a replacement for VOO, a supplement, or not at all. [Link to YouTube Video]
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Check out my current portfolio on 📱→Blossom: https://getblossom.onelink.me/SOfu/russ (affiliate)
Email Russ: 👉 [email protected]
🔔 Follow along with my dividend journey:
→ Website
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FREE eBook on Life, Love, and Investing.
Thanks for stopping by, and remember: a single income stream is risky, and seeking multiple passive income streams would be wise! This video is for entertainment and educational purposes only. I am not a financial advisor. Please do your own research before making any investment decisions.
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