Free Resources for Dividend Investors
Learn more about defensive dividend investing with these free resources
To help you on your dividend investing journey, you can find my investment checklist, spreadsheet and other resources below. These resources will help you analyse companies and answer the following questions:
- Does the company have a good and sustainable dividend yield?
- Does it have a track record of good financial results?
- Is it a good quality business?
- Does it have good growth prospects?
The checklist in particular will give you a very thorough understanding of my approach to defensive dividend investing.
For even more detail, please see my book, The Defensive Value Investor.
Dividend Investing Checklist (PDF version)
This is the checklist I use to analyse and value companies.
It's made up of a series of questions that assess the quality, defensiveness and value of a company:
Dividend Investing Checklist (editable version)
If you want to try your hand at applying my investment strategy yourself, you can make a copy of this template and use it when you next analyse a company:
- Company Review Checklist (Google Doc)
Company Review Spreadsheet
This is the spreadsheet I use to analyse income statements, balance sheets and other financial data.
If you'd like to use it, you can make a copy, enter the relevant financial data, and the spreadsheet will calculate a range of critical metrics and an initial fair value estimate:
- Company Review Spreadsheet (Google Sheet)
UK Dividend Stocks Newsletter Owner's Manual
This "owner's manual" is for investors who have subscribed to the UK Dividend Stocks Newsletter. However, even if you're not a subscriber, it should help you understand the steps I take each month to manage my personal portfolio and the UK Dividend Stocks Portfolio:
Take the next step
If you'd like to learn more about defensive dividend investing:
- Read the UK Dividend Stocks Blog
- Check out the latest Top 40 UK Dividend Stocks
- Learn more about my Defensive Dividend Strategy
- See my latest buy and sell decisions in the UK Dividend Stocks Newsletter
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