Welcome to The Part-Time Investor
Simple Investing Methods for Achieving Excellent Investing Results
At The Part-Time Investor we use dividend growth investing, the Dividend Aristocrats and the Dividend Champions to build portfolios and dividend income streams which are safe, reliable, and ever increasing.
Education
Dividend Growth Investing
PTI will post articles which will help you learn both the basics, and the more advanced strategies, used to implement Dividend Growth Investing.
Stock Evaluations
We Show You How We Evaluate Stocks
PTI will demonstrate the system we use to evaluate stocks, highlight ones which presently meet our criteria, and show you classic DGI stocks which have demonstrated in the past the qualities we are looking for.
Portfolio Updates
Watch The Growth
Follow the 8 portfolios we post and update on PTI, to see how well they perform, both in terms of dividend growth, and over-all total return. You can also see how they are doing in relation to their benchmarks.
Customization
Create a Strategy That Works For YOU
Dividend Growth Investing (DGI) is not a one size fits all technique. By following the PTI portfolios, reading the PTI book, and learning what other DGI investors do, you can tailor DGI to fit your goals, your personality and your life-style, while still staying true to the DGI philosophy.
Portfolios
4 live portfolios, and 4 model portfolios, all of which choose stocks from the Dividend Champions and the Dividend Aristocrats, using specific, well defined criteria, to create and manage dividend growth portfolios.
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Average Annual Return
For the flagship portfolio, the KISS portfolio, which has been managed by PTI since 2013.
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Average Annual Dividend Growth (DGR)
Over the last 5 years for the KISS Portfolio. 7.0% 5-year DGR for the Retirement Portfolio.
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Stocks rated with “safe” dividends
The percentage of all the stocks in all the portfolios rated as “safe” by Simplysafedividends.com.
By Robert Hodges
The Part-Time Investor
There are simple investing methods that can give you safe, possibly even market beating results over the long-term. These methods focus on producing ever increasing dividend income, which can provide you all the money you need to live on in retirement.
By using information about the dividends that companies are paying, you can make wise investment decisions about which stocks to buy and which ones to sell. Much of the hard work has already been done for you, and the information we need is easy to find and easy to understand.
That is what The Part-Time Investor is about. Simple methods for investing in dividend growth stocks, such that you will have peace of mind and a safe portfolio which can sustain you through retirement.
Blog
DGI Insights and News
Snap-On Tools (SNA) – Stock Evaluation
(THIS ARTICLE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. NOTHING MANTIONED HERE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO BE A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL THE STOCK) This week I am going to focus on one of the undervalued stocks I found this month after I ran my screen for undervalued...
Snap-On Tools (SNA) – Stock Evaluation
(THIS ARTICLE IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. NOTHING MANTIONED HERE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED TO BE A RECOMMENDATION TO BUY OR SELL THE STOCK) This week I am going to focus on one of the undervalued stocks I found this month after I ran my screen for undervalued...
Dividend Aristocrat Rankings – March 28, 2020
As a dividend growth investor, I narrow the universe of stocks I’m willing to consider for investment to only those stocks which have demonstrated a commitment to increasing their dividend every year, year after year. The Dividend Aristocrats is a group of stocks,...
Monthly Dividend Increases (February 2019)
Year over year dividend growth is the engine that drives our returns. So, it is important to keep track of the dividend increases for the companies we follow. This is a list of the dividend increases announced for all the companies we follow, during the month of...