08-20-2013, 09:29 PM
Kerim, thanks for the reply and the explanation of your approach!
Crowdsourcing is an interesting methodology. I read Seeking Alpha on a regular basis and it's a bit to overwhelming to me, which is why I sought out a discussion board specifically tied to DGI! So, in a way, this board is my crowdsourcing...
Ratings system? So you have an algorithm. Hmmm. It will take me a bit to figure out how I would weight different factors but it would be cool to come up with. I'm sure that is what dividend.com is hawking, but I've done some algorithmic development before and it would be fun to try to put something rudimentary together
Here are the 10 from the S&P 500. There are a couple of familiar names, and some that I've seen listed on this board:
AFLAC
Blackrock Inc
CA Inc
Cummins Inc
Coach Inc
Intel
KLA-Tencor Corp
Qualcomm
TE Connectivity Ltd
Union Pacific Corp
Three techish companies makes me a bit nervous about diversificatioin. So I think that as I study more I will figure out the good ones and start averaging into those positions. For instance, Union Pacific and AFLAC seem pretty solid. Maybe Cummings and Intel. The rest I don't know. Coach makes me nervous with it's 100% fiver year dividend increase.
If you expand it to all excluding microcaps, these 5 are added:
Agrium Inc
HollyFrontier Corp
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc
RPC Inc
Yamana Gold Inc
Interesting group, not sure that I'd make the leap into any of these until I spent some time doing research.
Thanks again for the reply!
Crowdsourcing is an interesting methodology. I read Seeking Alpha on a regular basis and it's a bit to overwhelming to me, which is why I sought out a discussion board specifically tied to DGI! So, in a way, this board is my crowdsourcing...
Ratings system? So you have an algorithm. Hmmm. It will take me a bit to figure out how I would weight different factors but it would be cool to come up with. I'm sure that is what dividend.com is hawking, but I've done some algorithmic development before and it would be fun to try to put something rudimentary together
Here are the 10 from the S&P 500. There are a couple of familiar names, and some that I've seen listed on this board:
AFLAC
Blackrock Inc
CA Inc
Cummins Inc
Coach Inc
Intel
KLA-Tencor Corp
Qualcomm
TE Connectivity Ltd
Union Pacific Corp
Three techish companies makes me a bit nervous about diversificatioin. So I think that as I study more I will figure out the good ones and start averaging into those positions. For instance, Union Pacific and AFLAC seem pretty solid. Maybe Cummings and Intel. The rest I don't know. Coach makes me nervous with it's 100% fiver year dividend increase.
If you expand it to all excluding microcaps, these 5 are added:
Agrium Inc
HollyFrontier Corp
Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc
RPC Inc
Yamana Gold Inc
Interesting group, not sure that I'd make the leap into any of these until I spent some time doing research.
Thanks again for the reply!