Dapper Dividends is a quirky and unique take on dividend growth investing! I’m Russ, born in '78, Chicago raised, US Navy in the late '90s, have a wife and two teenage daughters, commercial loading dock equipment installer and service tech since '99. While the following content are my opinions on investing and life, nothing is to be considered advice, but shared knowledge for your fun and entertainment!
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I tested 69 covered call and options-income ETFs against the assets they're built on — every fund from its own inception date through August 7, 2026, total return with all distributions reinvested. Only 4 beat their benchmark, and every one of those four had a flat or falling underlying, used leverage, or wasn't actually a covered call fund. Not one beat its benchmark by writing calls on an asset…
I used the Simply Safe Dividends stock screener to find dividend stocks with yields of 4% or higher, safe dividends, low valuations, and strong returns on capital. Five companies made the cut: Watsco (WSO), Paychex (PAYX), Amdocs (DOX), PepsiCo (PEP), and T. Rowe Price (TROW). For each one, I explain in plain English why the stock is down, what the business actually does, and what I would want to…
This is our full investment portfolio reveal — every single stock and fund my wife and I own, worth about $730,000 and growing toward our goal of a $1 million portfolio. I walk through all 24 holdings one by one, share what's new with each one, and show you how we're now earning almost $11,000 a year in dividends. Whether you've followed the channel for years or just stumbled in today, you'll get…
Dividend investing explained for beginners, fast. If a $100 stock pays a $5 dividend, do you have $105 — or $95 plus $5 in cash? Meb Faber's survey found only about 1 in 4 everyday investors get it right. I cover why dividends aren't free money, why a high dividend yield is often a warning sign (GE, Kraft Heinz, AT&T, Intel, Walgreens all cut theirs), and the one rule that matters most: buy the…
Lisa J-Stocks | @LisaJStocks bought VTI for over three years straight — then she stopped. In this interview, she explains why she shifted to growth, the two stocks she's buying now (SPMO and SMH), and the simple mindset trick that keeps her investing no matter what: treat it like a bill you have to pay. We hear about her top holding, FXAIX, the monthly dividend stocks she still owns (and how…
So I kept hearing about this ETF called OVL — it's beaten the S&P 500 since 2019, and now it pays you over 10% a year in monthly checks. Sounded like a cheat code, so I popped the hood. In this one, I break down what's actually inside OVL (spoiler: it's basically VOO), how it uses options to juice that yield, where that 10% monthly payout really comes from, why the fee is 26x higher than VOO, what…
Caesars Entertainment just sold for $17.6 billion — and if you own VICI Properties, you need to hear this. Russ sits down with Travis from Dividend Collection Agency, a retired Navy vet and TipRanks Top 1% analyst, to break down what the Caesars sale actually means for VICI shareholders, whether dividends are overhyped, which covered call ETFs are worth owning, and whether AI is the next airline…
Most dividend investors stick to the same handful of household names — but some of the best compounding businesses in the market are hiding in plain sight. In this video, I'm using a framework borrowed from investor Pulak Prasad — author of What I Learned About Investing from Darwin — to identify four under-the-radar dividend growers that have delivered above 20% Return on Capital Employed for a…
Two years ago, I built my own twist on Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula investing strategy. I called it the Dividend Magic Formula — I screened MagicFormulaInvesting.com for dividend-paying stocks, ranked them by 5-year Return on Capital Employed (ROCE), and bought the top 10. Did it beat the S&P 500 again in year two? In this video, I share the full results of my $1,000 hypothetical portfolio…
I felt FOMO about missing the AI rally. Then I ran a 5-minute look-through analysis on my portfolio with AI and found $102,000 of Magnificent 7 stocks I didn't know I owned — hidden inside my 401(k) index funds. Here's the exact 3-step process you can use on your portfolio today. [ Link to YouTube Video ] Follow Jonah on Blossom , Instagram or Facebook .…
