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Imagine discovering that your dividend portfolio contains a treasure chest that you didn’t even know was there. You can’t see it by looking at the dividend yield, and you won’t find it by simply comparing a company’s earnings with its dividend. In fact, the companies themselves don’t always make it easy to find. But buried…

If you asked most investors who moves the stock market, they’d probably say individual investors, mutual funds, pension funds, and large investment firms buying and selling stocks based on what they believe companies are worth. That answer would have been largely correct a few decades ago. Today, it isn’t. The stock market has quietly undergone…

People like to tell themselves they invest in the stock market because they’re being rational. Some believe they’re doing the work, researching companies, comparing financials, listening to analysts, and convincing themselves they’re making informed decisions. Others skip the research entirely and instead research financial advisors, portfolio managers, or large investment firms, ultimately turning their life…

Most investors panic when stock prices fall. They see red on the screen, assume something is broken, and rush to sell before things “get worse.” But dividend investors who understand the relationship between stock prices and dividend payouts know something very different: sometimes a falling stock price isn’t a catastrophe at all. Sometimes it’s the…