Dividend Growth Investing with Ben Reynolds of Sure Dividend
This week’s post is a video conversation with Ben Reynolds of the Sure Dividend Newsletter. Watch it below or click over to YouTube for this 50-minute chat.
Stay tuned until the end when Ben shares his top 3 dividend stock recommendations for May 2024. In tandem with this video, Ben is offering a free spreadsheet download of the Dividend Kings — 54 public companies that have paid and increased their dividends for the past 50 years.
This is a long-form podcast-style conversation, a format I’ve explored on other people’s podcasts but never hosted one myself. I’m excited to share this with you.
Here are some of the topics we discuss:
- The heyday of dividend blogs
- Ben’s 8 Rules of Dividend Investing
- The Sure Dividend newsletters (rundown of the different publications)
- Dividend stocks vs. growth stocks vs. ETFs
- A story about my childhood neighbor’s patent he earned while working for one of the companies mentioned
- Ben’s Top 3 Dividend Stock picks right now
Sure Dividend is a stock newsletter that I’ve subscribed to for years. I’ve recommended it many times, and several RBD readers are subscribers.
Here’s my Sure Dividend newsletter review. If people respond well to this video, I may record a review video to walk through one of the newsletters.
I don’t know if I’ll record more long-form conversations like this going forward. Ben and I have talked offline several times and thought it would be fun to try something new.
Let me know what you think.
Craig is a former IT professional who left his 19-year career to be a full-time finance writer. A DIY investor since 1995, he started Retire Before Dad in 2013 as a creative outlet to share his investment portfolios. Craig studied Finance at Michigan State University and lives in Northern Virginia with his wife and three children. Read more.
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