Weekend Reading 5/29/2011

Dividend Stocks 101: The Essential Guide
If you’re new to the site, check out this key resource.

My articles have been fewer but rather long this month (especially one or two of them), and as a recap, they can be found here:
20 Quick Ways To Check A Company
Novartis Dividend Analysis
Step 5: Research
Step 6: Start Small
6 Significant Yields in the Health Care Industry

In Defense of Dividends
MLPs Faltering
Two solid Morningstar videos.

Dividend Dynamos
Dynamic Dividends provides a list of over 200 companies that have raised dividends for at least 10 years. Furthermore, he breaks it up into five classes of dividend longevity.
For example, here’s the Class A 50+ Year List

Community Trust Bank Analysis
D4L analyzes a smaller bank.

Why Your Financial Resolutions Might Have Failed
My Own Advisor discusses some reasons why financial resolutions don’t always come true.

Unilever Analysis
Defensiven provided an analysis of the discounted consumer giant, and also has an article talking about the realized risks of HCBK.

Single Stock: Reloaded
Andrew Hallam asks, if you had to pick one stock and hold it for 80 years, which would it be?

How To Live Off Dividends In Retirement
Dividend Growth Investor presents this good article to readers.

6 Signs of a Good Dividend Yield Part 1
6 Signs of a Good Dividend Yield Part 2
Sigma Swan puts forth a two part article on dividend yields.

Derek Foster Interview Part1
Derek Foster Interview Part 2
Dividend Ninja begins his interview of a man who retired at age 34 with simple investing and frugality.

Go the LifeCycle or Target Fund Route?
DIY Investor analyzes LifeCycle funds.

Why Do We Think We Are So Good As Investors?
The Dividend Guy asks this always important question about overconfidence.

Why I’m Buying Wal-Mart
Dividend Mantra provides a Wal-Mart analysis.

Investment Advice From an Unusual Source
Dividend Partisan provides four lessons.

Cincinnati Financial Analysis
The Passive Income Earner analyzed CINF.