Watching Dividends Rise: A Typical Dividend-Growth Portfolio

David Van Knapp submits: Background My Dividend Growth Portfolio (DGP) is a public “demonstration” portfolio that I use to illustrate real-world application of principles and tactics in dividend-growth investing. The portfolio contains real money and actual stock holdings. It is part of my retirement cistern.

David Van Knapp submits:The U. S. Dividend Champions List—produced by the DRiP Investing Resource Center—is the best compilation I know of domestic stocks that have raised their dividends for the past 25 years. I think it is superior to the more famous Dividend Aristocrats List from S&P.

By David Van Knapp:As many know, I maintain a public demonstration Dividend Growth Portfolio (DGP). I keep it out here in the open so that people can see how one person (me) executes a dividend growth strategy and what its results are.

David Van Knapp submits:This is the fourth in an occasional series about my public Dividend Growth Portfolio. The portfolio is designed to demonstrate how dividend-growth investing works.

David Van Knapp submits:I recently completed the 2011 (fourth) edition of my Top 40 Dividend-Growth Stocks series of annual special studies. This endeavor, which is concentrated on October through January each year, always causes me to revisit and re-question the basic principles of the strategy, and also to reflect on what I learned in the intervening year. This year was no exception.

By David Van Knapp: Introduction I conduct formal Portfolio Reviews of my public Dividend Growth Portfolio (DGP) twice per year. Here are reports of the last review plus a mid-year update:

By David Van Knapp: David Van Knapp is anything but an entrenched financial professional. Starting in 2007, his affinity for value investing gradually gave way to developing his own unique approach to dividend growth investing. The author of five annual eBooks on the subject, Van Knapp has allowed individual investors approaching retirement to take their financial destinies into their own hands by carefully constructing and managing a portfolio of dividend growth stocks.

David Van Knapp submits:What’s a fast-growing dividend? 4% per year? 7%? 10%? Obviously reasonable minds can differ. Someone with a stock that’s already yielding 7% may say that 5% per year growth in that dividend is fine with her.