Dividend Stocks: 5 Reasons to Stay Away

Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast

Taylor Schulte, CFP®

Investing, Business

4.7 • 678 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Search "dividend stocks" and Google will return over fifty million results in less than half of a second.

Dividend stocks have long been referred to as a solid investment strategy. Not because of their historical performance or tax efficiency but because they tell a good story.

Unfortunately, when you really dig down into the numbers and compare dividend investing to the alternatives, the story falls apart.

In today's episode, we're going to take a deep dive into the world of dividend-paying stocks and what you should be thinking about by exploring:

What a dividend is
Why people gravitate towards dividend paying stocks
5 reasons most people should avoid dividend paying stocks
Alternative ways to create more value and income in your portfolio through Total Return Investing

If you want to better understand dividends and learn about the right way to generate income with your portfolio, you're going to want to listen to all of today's episode.

Show notes: www.youstaywealthy.com/25

DISCLAIMER: This podcast is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions. This podcast is not engaged in rendering legal, financial, or other professional services.

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0:00.0	Taxes are their cost. And when it comes to investing, we want to minimize our costs. So if we can
0:05.8	minimize taxes, that means minimizing costs. That means we're going to have more money at the end of the day.
0:12.9	Welcome to Stay Wealthy San Diego, a show for successful professionals doing all the right things with their money
0:19.5	and are ready to take their financial
0:21.3	plan to the next level. I'm certified financial planner Taylor Schulte, and I'm here to
0:26.3	teach you advanced financial planning strategies in plain English. This podcast is for informational
0:33.7	and entertainment purposes only and should not be relied upon as a basis for investment decisions.
0:38.5	This podcast is not engaged in rendering legal, financial, or other professional services.
0:46.5	All right. Today's going to be a fun episode. I'm a little anxious because I'm not, I'm not sure what's happening.
0:52.9	Because you have no idea what we're talking about today.
0:55.0	I don't.
0:55.7	Should I make some guesses?
0:57.5	Yeah, let's make some guesses.
0:58.8	I'll give you one hint.
1:00.5	I was doing some research for the show.
1:03.2	Type some stuff into Google.
1:04.7	And here's one headline that came up.
1:07.7	The headline from CNBC that says,
1:10.4	a get rich slowly scheme for everyone.
1:14.3	So buy and hold index investing? Is that what we're talking about? Yeah, the complete opposite.
1:19.7	No, today we're talking about dividend stocks. Okay. All right. So I typed in dividend investing
1:26.9	into Google. How many results do you think came up?
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