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Dividend Growth Portfolio Reality Check, Part 2
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Published Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:18:10 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
Understanding Literature Pays Dividends In my previous article, we talked about lessons that investors can learn from "Animal Farm" by George Orwell and we performed a "reality check" on five of the stocks in my portfolio. I would like to continue with lessons that can be learned from great works of literature. In this article, we will use the poem, If by Rudyard Kipling. The speaker in the poem is a father who is giving advice to his son about how to become a man. In short, he encourages the son to find balance in his life, to be virtuous and wise. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; In order to buy a stock, someone has to be selling and in order to buy at a good value, this often includes a fair amount of selling. As investors, we... Read more
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US30161N1019 35.15 31.2 1.12 1.24 3.53 COCA-COLA
US1912161007 42.97 22.6 1.91 1.12 2.61 ABBOTT LABORATORIES
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