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October 20, 2021

This podcast covers the final five chapters of my first investment book, "Income and Wealth from Self-Directed investing".  In it, we explore how 9 information elements are graded to provide a public company's total stock  score.

The higher the score, the safer and higher the dividend payments and the more likely the stock will show a capital gain of 9 percent or more in a year.  The highest possible score would be 100 and the lowest would be zero.  Out of the thousands of scores I have calculated, the highest score has been a 78 and the lowest has been a 7.

Being able to score and then sort by score, stocks traded on any stock exchange makes it easier for you to build a strong portfolio,  The fact that the stocks in the charts in my books are sorted in descending order by score, price, dividend percent and alphabetically greatly speeds up the process.

The following questions are answered in this podcast:

(1) If a stock had a share price of $100 how many points would this contribute to its total score?

(2) If it was a stock that had not existed 4 years ago, how many points would it contribute to the total score?

(3) If five analysts recommended the stock, how many points would this contribute?

(4) If a stock was paying dividend yield percent of 8%, how many points would that contribute?

(5) If a stock's operating margin exceeded 85%, how many points would that add to the score.

(6) If the number of shares trading on average in a day was 9,000 how many points would be added to the score?

(7) If the stock were a high-flying technical stock with a price to earnings ratio of 350.1x  how many points would such a high P/E ratio generate?

(8) What must you always do after you have identified the 20 stocks in the book you want for your portfolio, and you are now ready to buy?

(9) Why are preferred shares not recommended for your portfolio?

(10) What industry has the highest scores?

In these 32 podcasts I wanted to cover the content of at least one of my investment books  to give those with an interest in investing an idea of what was involved in choosing stocks and building a portfolio. More importantly I wanted you to realize that  with the tools I provide that you are perfectly capable of building a strong dividend portfolio on your own.  If an 80-year-old Miss Innocence can build a strong dividend portfolio, that has grown by hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last 3 years while providing her with a generous income, you also can do it.

Next week, I will begin reviewing questions brought to my attention by investors over the last three years.  Some questions in 2020  were projections about stocks being impacted by COVID-19.

If you have any questions, please email them to [email protected].  I am usually sitting at my desk working on the "American High Dividend Handbook" and I will likely see your message flash across my screen.  It will give me a break from the tedious job of building hundreds of charts.  That book should be available next month.

For information on my novels, investment books and art, visit my website:
www.saferbetterdividendinvesting.com

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Informus Inc (Publishing Division)
2 Vista Humber Drive
Toronto, Ontario
M9P 3R7
NY Tel : 929-800-2397
Toronto Tel: 416-24

Ian Duncan MacDonald
Author and Commercial Risk Consultant,
President of Informus Inc
2 Vista Humber Drive
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M9P 3R7
Toronto Telephone - 416-245-4994
New York Telephone - 929-800-2397
[email protected]