It's definitely different times, as you said. And now we're starting to come into more that inflationary period and more interest rates. But it also brings me to my second learning, which is really interrelated to it and sticking to the plan. Once you actually can, that's the beauty of dividend growth investing, you can calculate your plan. So I just mentioned timing the market, but it's not just timing the market. It's also really consistency to make your numbers.
For the News of the Week, we started the show by talking about Germany which has now officially entered into a technical recession. As the biggest market in the EU, the market did not overreact to this news. Was it already priced in?
Medtronic ($MDT) released full-year results and EDGI gives a brief rundown on the results. The Share price has dropped to 81.50 USD while the company hiked its dividend by 1.5%. Derek questions the dividend safety of the company.
Dividend Increases:
- Lowe's Companies hikes dividend by 5%
- Guess hikes the dividend by 33.3%
- LyondellBasell Industries hiked the dividend by 5%.
Main Topic
In the main topic, both EDGI and Derek give 5 points each around what they wish they knew before starting investing.
Key points include
Investing regularly is not easy
Have a plan and stick to it
You cant borrow conviction
Dividend Safety
Numbers don't lie. Humans do
We finish the show with questions from the community where we talk about tickers such as $SBUX, $LIGHT, $JNJ, $ABBV, $VHYL, $WSM
Links mentioned in the show
Ep #9 – How we perform fundamental analysis - Dividend Talk
EP #21 – Why the balance sheet of a company is so important to us - Dividend Talk
EP #32 – How to spot a company in decline - Dividend Talk
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