Image by Sean MacEntee via FlickrWhy should you buy a stock every week?  Because you never know when the market will do what it did today.

Why should you sell calls even when the market is down, because call buyers want to get in with little capital and they too do not know when the market will do what it did today.

2011 Dividend Machines EARNINGS PER SHARE

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Dividend Machines – 2011 Earnings per Share

            An income investor’s sole investment goal is income but we all know that we want our income to flow from a reliable source.  In life there are no guarantees, therefore we must depend on the financial indicators that are consistent with an investment that will deliver safe and ever increasing income.  Earnings per share are, I think, the easiest and best indicator of a company’s profitability.

            Recently I discussed dividends, dividend increases and

ESP - 2011 dividend machine declares special income

Dear Income Investors:

          One of our 2011 dividend machines, Espey Manufacturing & Engineering, symbol ESP, was profiled on July 11, 2011 See Original Post.  I would bet that few of you ever heard of ESP before reading this blog.   Currently trading at about $24.00 per share, ESP is a very affordable stock.

Option Income - 2011 Dividend Machines

Option Income analysis – 2011 Dividend Machines

            Income investors, covered calls, as you know, are contracts that pay you money known as a call premium. These premiums can be as little as ten cents a share or as much as several dollars a share.  So you see covered calls can provide significant investment income.  In retirement, this is very important.

 In exchange for receiving the call premium, you give the buyer the right to buy your stock at the strike price of the contract. The strike price is critical because income

2011 Dividend Machine DIVIDEND INCREASES

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Dear Income Investors:

          Finding dividend machines using only four simple criteria was the one of the goals of this blog during this first year.  One of the criteria was to include companies that have increased their dividend every year for at least the past five years.

          The theory behind including the dividend increase hurdle was that we income investors need our income to increase and we do not want to be traders in order to accomplish that goal.  Other fixed income instruments rarely provide for reliable increasing income.   Dividend machines can fulfill your need for increasing annual income.

2011 Dividend Machines INCOME

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REVIEW and ANALYSIS of 2011 DIVIDEND MACHINE INCOME

                Income investors if you are looking for a new dividend machine for this week, note that I have completed profiling 52 dividend machines for 2011.   For the remainder of calendar 2011, I will analyze how we did with those 52 companies.  I will continue to opine and comment on covered call income and interest income opportunities.  I will start profiling 2012 dividend machines again in January, 2012.

Dividend Machine Atmos Energy - follow up

Dear Income Investor:

Atmos Energy raised its dividend again.   I love these dividend machines. See original post on Atmos Energy, symbol ATO

Very Truly Yours,

TheMoneyMadam

QCOM - a better story today

          QCOM, income investors, has been a source of a lot of income for me and yesterday I profiled a potential covered call trade.   Well today the story is even better.

2011 Dividend Machines DIVIDEND YIELD

REVIEW and ANALYSIS of 2011 DIVIDEND MACHINES

                In this post, income investors, I will relate to you the methodology I used to select the 52 companies that met the criteria to be considered dividend machines and I will tell you what measures I will use to determine how well we did.

QCOM covered calls

Image via CrunchBaseIncome investors, I have written about Qualcomm as a cash cow three times during the first year of this blog.  Today was another example of how to use Qualcomm in your income investing strategy.

Dividend machine for November 7, 2011 Darden Restaurants, symbol DRI

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                Income investors, the 52^nd dividend machine is Darden Restaurants, symbol DRI.  DRI provides income investors with an opportunity to diversify.  You know we tend to be heavy into industrials, telecoms, utilities, and big pharma, so it is important to add a dividend machine, our final dividend machine for (fiscal year 2011), that meets all the criteria and that adds some diversification.