What’s Dividend Investing and Why Should I Care

What’s dividend investing and what are the 4 key benefits

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How can you use dividend investing to prepare for retirement

You may have heard your grandparents talk about dividend investing and thought, ‘Okay, Boomer.’ But your meemaw and papaw are actually onto something this time. Dividend investing is a great way to grow your retirement portfolio now or generate income once you’re in retirement—lying in blue beach chairs or flip-flopping around PTown.

Joseph Hogue is an OG when it comes to investing and the personal finance world. After serving in the Marine Corps, Joseph became a real estate investor and investment analyst. Joseph has appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC as an investment expert and published 10 books in the personal finance space, and he serves as the host of the popular Let’s Talk Money YouTube community.

On this episode of Queer Money®, Joseph joins us to explore the benefits of dividend investing, explaining why some companies issue dividends rather than reinvesting their earnings in the business for growth. Joseph discusses the likelihood that investors will get a predictable dividend return and why you should prioritize dividend stocks into retirement accounts to save on taxes.

Listen to Joseph’s advice on investing in companies that consistently increase dividend payouts and learn how to use dividends to prepare for retirement or generate an extra stream of passive income.

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Topics covered on what’s dividend investing

How Joseph defines a dividend as a return of profits to stock investors
Joseph’s take on the 4 key benefits of dividend investing
How dividends get paid out by a company’s Board of Directors
The likelihood that investors will get a predictable dividend return
How dividend payouts affect stock prices (both in theory and in practice)
Why some companies choose to issue dividends vs. reinvest earnings in the business for growth
How to calculate dividend yield and why you should be cautious of very high-dividend yields
What kind of investor should consider dividend stocks
How to grow ownership value in a company by reinvesting dividends
Why it’s crucial to prioritize dividend stocks into retirement accounts
How dividend yields decline as stock prices rise and vice versa
Simple ways to invest in companies that have consistently increased dividends over decades
Why utilities, energy companies, and consumer staples tend to pay higher dividends than other industries
How to use dividends to prepare for retirement or cover expenses in retirement
Joseph’s insight on how dividends fit into the 4% strategy

Connect with Joseph Hogue

My Stock Market Basics
Let’s Talk Money on YouTube

Resources on what’s dividend investing

Yahoo Finance Historical Data
NOBL Aristocrats ETF
Schwab Equity Income ETF
CreditWise

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We’re David and John Auten-Schneider, the Debt Free Guys (www.debtfreeguys.com) and hosts of the Queer Money® podcast. We help queer people (and allies) live fabulously not fabulously broke by helping them 1) pay off credit card debt, 2) become part- or full-time entrepreneurs and 3) save and invest for retirement.