Safe Dividend Investing

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing’s Podcast # 251, on November 29th of 2025.  My name is Ian Duncan MacDonald, and I am an author of six investment books.  Today is a very quick podcast. I am trying to finish up my latest book before Christmas. It is called “Achieving Financial Independence From 180 High Dividend NYSE stocks - Analyzed and Scored”. Over the last 7 months It has t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 250 (November 22, 2025) It is interesting to investigate what motivates investors to invest in the stock market. Do they believe that once their portfolio achieves a specific dollar amount the they will the be "wealthy". Will they recognize that spending money unnecessarily and thoughtlessly can quickly destroy the wealth...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 249 - (November 15, 2025) When you ask someone's advice in choosing a stock are you subconsciously looking for someone, other than yourself, to blame if the stock loses money? You are perfectly capable of doing some simple, easy analysis to determine the strength and potential of a stock. In this podcast I walk you through the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 248 - (November 8,  2025) This week's podcast was motivated by a question from one of my book readers. He asked why I was so sure there would be a market crash in the next two years.  I am old enough to remember very clearly the hype and hectic days prior to the dot com stock market crash in 2000. The internet was then going t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 247 - (November 1,  2025) This week's podcast is in response to a question from one of my listeners. He was concerned that one of his, what he thought was a strong stock, had lost fifty percent of its share price value almost overnight. Yes, even strong stocks can have sudden unexpected drops in their share price. This does no...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 246 - (25 October 2025)  As I continue to score and analyze stocks for my next investment book the loss at The Kraft Heinz Company (stock symbol KHC) caught my interest. KHC was a merger formed in 2015 and will cease to exist in 2026 when it is again split into two companies.  It is currently the 5th largest food company in the wor...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 245 - (18 October 2025)  This week is a departure from my usual podcast content. It responds to a Fidelity investment advisor with whom one of my readers discussed my approach to investing.  The Fidelity advisor stated that Ian Duncan MacDonald's investment ideas were the craziest ideas she had ever heard of.    What makes thi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 244 - (11 October 2025)   While preparing for a trip to Bermuda, Ian Duncan MacDonald noticed that three Bermuda registered companies would be appearing in his new investment book.  The book analyzes and scores 200 strong, high dividend stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange. That three companies from such a small island woul...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 240 - (20 September 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 241 - (27 September 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 242 - (4 October 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. Both his books and his podcasts are  written for those who fear investing in the stock market  because they are convinced  they will lose their life savings.  Often they keep thei...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 243 (11 October 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. Both his books and his podcasts are  written for those who fear investing in the stock market  because they are convinced  they will lose their life savings.   Often they keep thei...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 239 - (13 September 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 238 - (6 September 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individu...

Send us Fan Mail W elcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 237 - (30 August 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individua...

Send us Fan Mail W elcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 236 - (23 August 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individua...

Send us Fan Mail W elcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 235 - (16 August 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individua...

Send us Fan Mail W elcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 234 - (9 August 2025)  Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It is being written for investors who fear making investing in individual...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 232.   Ian Duncan MacDonald has started to write another investment book on stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ. It will be called  “ 2025 Edition – America’s 200 Strongest High Dividend Stocks – Analyzed and Scored” . It will take several months to complete. It is being written for those investors who fear...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 231 While identifying, recording, analyzing and scoring this week's 10 US and Canadian financially strong, high dividend stocks  for the podcast, I found the following interesting: The most expensive stock was < Cal-Maine Foods >at < $105.94 >and < Brookfield Renewable > was the least expensive at <$27.20...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Safe Dividend Investing's Podcast 232. This week's podcast is a departure from the format of the last 40 podcasts. Today I am doing a comparison between three major US airlines :  American Airlines Group Inc (AAL), United Airlines Holdings Inc (UAL) and Delta Air Lines Inc (DAL).  There are many large publicly traded companies on stock markets  from which we b...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to  Podcast 230 on July 12 of 2025t Using stock trading volumes, dividend yield percentages, the previous week's highest share price gains, operating margin percentages, the 5 highest qualifying US common stocks and 5 Canadian common stocks were selected and then scored. The 5 US stocks by name and stock symbol were: Civitas Resources ( CIVI) , Noble Corporation PLC (...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to  Podcast 229 on 5th of July, 2025:  This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.  5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED ( 1) common shares  (2) dividend yield + 5% (3)  shares traded over 1M  (4) price gain +5%. (5) share price exceeding $22.72 QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES : (1) NE Score 70 (2) CIVI Score 76...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to  Podcast 228 on 28thof June, 2025:  This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript.  5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED ( 1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M price gain +1%.  QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES : (1) APAM Score 47 (2) CPA Score 68 (3) MSB Score 44 (4) NVEC Score 56 ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to  Podcast 227 on 21st of June, 2025:  This week’s 10 outstanding high dividend stocks are in the attached podcast’s narration and transcript. 5 U.S STOCK SELCTORS USED ( 1) common shares (2) dividend yield + 5% (3) # shares traded over 1M (4) operating margins +10% (5) share prices + $13.26 (6) weekly share price gain +1%.  QUALIFIERS’ STOCK SYMBOLS & THEIR SCORES :...