During the week I participated in blog carnivals and continue to read articles from fellow bloggers. Once a week in my Potpourri Post, I highlight some of the articles that I enjoyed reading.
My Article in Blogosphere
- Festival of Stocks published my post BDX – Stock Analysis for Dividend Growth Portfolio
- Money Hacks Carnival published my post Demise of Dollar – Does it Affect Dividend Growth?
- Economy and your Finances Carnival published my post Microsoft – Bankrupt of New Ideas?
- Carnival of Personal Finance published my post P&G’s Design Initiative Reaping Results
Economy, Finance, Investing.…
- Very good discussion on concentrate or Diversify?
- Five stocks with low debt-to-capital ratio
- Buying fixed income
- Interesting take on dividend rate cuts
- Boring company with solid profits. Check out which one it is.
- Insurance company buys gold for its own insurance?
- Call for riding norfolk southern rails
- Indian ADR loose $5B in market valuation in one week. And it becomes news!
- US, UK, Japan total debt 25 times higher than India. What a lame comparison!
- Check out what Microsoft is working on and where it’s been busy.
These are some diverse set of articles from fellow bloggers and business magazines. I hope you enjoy reading all or some of these interesting posts.
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Two Pieces of Advice for Dividend Investors in 2012
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Are Dividend Stocks Overvalued?
(Investment U, 2/1/12)
Dividend investors keeping looking for free cash flow to figure out whether a company can pay dividends. Apple Inc, a technology or consumer company has loads of cash on its books. However, it does not pay dividends. What is more interesting is with USD 25+ billion cash and billions in cash flow every year; it does not show any inclination for sharing it with common shareholders. Not even a token amount. So why is that Apple is does not pay dividends? At this point, I am not even asking about growing dividends. 
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Reframing Dividend Investing
This article was originally published on The DIV-Net, on May 28, 2009.
Like many of us, I like reading wisdoms of well know individuals who have been there, done this, done that, and have shown success in their fields. In addition, to the literal meaning of those wisdoms or observation, I like understand the essence of it and put into my own perspective. A while back, I came across P&G CEO A. G. Lafley’s observations in his book “The Game Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation”. He talks about two schools of thoughts viz., business school thinking and design school approach. continue reading rest of the article….