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Stock Club Podcast Episode #301: The 6 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy
Episode Summary In this episode, Emmet and Mike discuss their top picks for dividend stocks, transitioning from growth-oriented investments to safer, income-generating stocks. They emphasize the importance of dividend stocks for investors, particularly those approaching retirement, and provide insights into the factors influencing a company's decision to issue dividends.
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Key Concepts and Discussions
Introduction to Dividend Stocks
- Shift from Growth to Income: The hosts highlight a strategic shift from growth stocks to dividend stocks that offer regular income.
- Target Audience: Emphasis on investors nearing retirement who may prefer value stocks for steady income.
Understanding Dividends
- Reasons Companies Pay Dividends: Emmet explains various reasons why companies issue dividends, including:
- Cash Availability: Companies with excess cash may opt to distribute dividends.
- Tax Implications: Different tax laws can influence a company's approach to cash distribution.
- Market Pressure: Large shareholders might push for dividends to show profitability.
The Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NOBL)
- The Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NOBL) is introduced as a key investment, consisting of U.S. companies that have increased dividends for at least 25 consecutive years.
- Emmet describes it as “the most solid investment in the world.”
Stock Picks
- Altria Group Inc (MO)
- Known for its strong dividend yield (over 6%).
- Discussion on ethical concerns regarding tobacco investments.
- Verizon (VZ)
- Provides a stable dividend yield (around 6%).
- Focus on cash generation and resilience in the telecom sector.
- Investor AB (STO: INVE-B)
- Dubbed the “Swedish Berkshire Hathaway.”
- Diversified holdings in public companies, medtech, and private businesses.
- Tokio Marine (TYO: 8766)
- Japan's largest insurance company.
- Benefits from rising interest rates and a new shareholder-friendly policy.
- Waste Management (WM)
- Consistent dividend growth for 20 years.
- Discussed as the Stock of the Month, showcasing strong fundamentals.
Economic Context
- Irish Investment Landscape: They discuss recent comments from Finance Minister Simon Harris on improving investment conditions in Ireland, including potential changes to deemed disposal laws and exploring tax-friendly investment models from other countries.
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Key Takeaways
- Importance of Dividend Stocks: Provides income stability and can be a critical part of retirement portfolios.
- Strategic Cash Allocation: Companies have various options for excess cash, with dividends being one of several choices.
- Market Trends: Current trends highlight a shift towards increasing dividends among mature companies, particularly in regions like Japan.
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Conclusion The hosts wrap up the episode by stressing the significance of maintaining a diversified investment approach that includes both dividend stocks and growth stocks, and they encourage audience engagement through subscriptions and feedback.
For more information and resources on investing, listeners are directed to the MyWallSt website and social media links.
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOMike's Personal Investment in Dividends
0:45 to 3:04
Discussion on personal experiences with dividend stocks.
“Golf, sun, beach, yeah, all that good stuff.”
Understanding Dividend Investing
3:04 to 3:56
Exploring the concept of dividend investing and its distinct approach.
“stocks today and so i think this will be an interesting yeah an interesting topic because we We spent all last week, two days ago, last week, whatever it was.”
Options for Excess Cash in Business
3:56 to 6:12
Businesses' choices for excess cash, including investment and share buybacks.
“because every business ultimately exists to generate a net positive cash flow.”
Paying Down Debt and Share Buybacks
6:12 to 8:01
The importance of managing debt and the benefits of share buybacks.
“done it a couple of times so the second way you can use cash is just buy a competitor or an adjacent company to accelerate growth or to gain capabilities.”
Reasons Businesses Pay Dividends
8:01 to 11:23
Examining the motivations behind businesses choosing to pay dividends.
“But anyway, without going into a whole podcast on that particular thing, the third thing a business can do is pay down debt.”
Impact of Dividends on Business Flexibility
11:23 to 14:01
Discussing how dividends can affect a company's cash flexibility and investor expectations.
“They just can't see a better option, which also shows a maturity of judgment.”
Investors' Preference for Dividends
14:01 to 14:31
Learn why investors favor reliability over growth in dividend-paying companies.
The Commitment of Dividends
14:31 to 16:18
Understand the implications of a company starting dividends and the associated risks.
“I remember years ago saying to our CTO, Alejandro, we had built the most wonderful investment app in the world, as a lot of our listeners will recall.”
A Brief History of Dividends
16:18 to 16:46
Explore the evolution of dividends from the 19th century to present times.
Institutionalization of Dividends
16:46 to 18:25
Discover how dividends became a regular part of investor returns in the 20th century.
“And it was a slow process and it was far trickier.”
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The Rise of Share Buybacks
18:25 to 19:39
Learn how share buybacks gained popularity and their impact on corporate finance.
“They gained prominence, especially in America.”
Modern Companies and Dividend Strategy
19:39 to 21:14
Examine how modern companies prioritize reinvestment over dividend payments.
“favored capital gains over dividend income.”
YouTube Growth and Audience Engagement
21:14 to 22:44
Hear the hosts discuss their growing YouTube audience and the importance of subscriptions.
“because it became a complete share cannibal under Tim Cook's leadership.”
ETF Investment Challenges in Ireland
22:44 to 24:15
Understand the tax implications affecting ETF investments in Ireland.
“Well I'm glad you brought that up because we're going to have a little mini conversation at the end of this podcast on that so keep going.”
Exploring Dividend Aristocrats
24:15 to 26:06
Learn about dividend aristocrats and their criteria for inclusion in this elite group.
“All your debtors will pay the money they owe you, but you better pay up to Pauly at the end of the month.”
Investor AB: The Swedish Berkshire Hathaway
27:29 to 28:03
Learn about Investor AB and its significance in the Swedish market.
Investor AB: A Diversified Swedish Bet
28:03 to 29:16
Learn about Investor AB's diversified portfolio and its focus on Swedish companies.
“We've talked about the length of the quality of public companies coming from Sweden.”
Ethics and Investing: The Case of Altria
29:16 to 31:24
Explore the ethical considerations around investing in companies like Altria Group.
“It's an incredibly diversified business, obviously.”
Tokyo Marine: A Japanese Insurance Powerhouse
31:24 to 39:28
Discover why Tokyo Marine is an attractive investment in the context of Japan's economic shifts.
Verizon: A Telecom Giant's Steady Cash Flow
39:28 to 42:05
Understand Verizon's business model and its significance in the telecom industry.
“It generates the vast majority of its revenue and profit from tens of millions of postpaid subscribers who provide this really predictable recurring cash flow.”
Verizon's Dividend and Growth Potential
42:05 to 46:36
Exploring Verizon's financials, dividend yields, and future growth scenarios.
“and your television this and the other um but anyway that's verizon everybody knows it um And it's one that doesn't need a whole load of explanation.”
Waste Management as a Strong Investment
47:07 to 48:39
Discussing Waste Management's dividend history and market position.
Positive Changes for Irish Retail Investors
48:44 to 52:54
Highlighting upcoming changes in Irish investment laws and their potential impact.
“And he wants to make money work for them.”
Reflections on Meeting the Finance Minister
52:55 to 55:39
Sharing a personal anecdote about meeting the Minister for Finance and discussing investment issues.
“It's finding, you know, it's a hobby as much as anything.”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:00Emmet:Does it ever feel like you're a marketing professional just speaking into the void?
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0:40Mike:Go get Reese's now. Do not stay calm. Push people out of the way. It's actually my largest position in my own personal portfolio. I don't plan on selling anytime soon. And when I hear dividends, this is my first like significant, but you know, first actual, oh wow that's some money coming in to my portfolio there when the quarterly dividend comes in
1:07Emmet:hey how are we getting out how are you doing this week mike i'm great i'm great sun is shining i'm
1:13Mike:off on my holidays this weekend can't complain so nice where are you going to i'm going to uh Tenerife.
1:20Emmet:Ah, would golf be on the horizon? Golf, sun, beach, yeah, all that good stuff. Sun, sun, that rings a bell. I think I remember that. That's the big ball in the sky that we don't get to see from Ireland for multiple months on end.
1:36Mike:Exactly, exactly. In fairness now, I have heard that this winter has been like, you know, a complete anomaly of just no one has seen the sun for genuinely six weeks in a row, which is horrific.
1:49Emmet:No, that's not fair. That's not right. But at least the Canary Islands, it's always sunny. You know what? You and I are playing a little bit of a sneaky hand here because we only recorded last week's podcast a couple of days ago. We are now recording this week's podcast last week.
2:09Mike:So that's for our listeners. I watched a terrible time travel movie last night. So I'm really sick of this kind of rhetoric.
2:17Emmet:Well, by the way, it's worth me mentioning because on last week's podcast, I said that if you signed up for stock of the month for the ridiculously low price of 75 bucks per year for two years, we would pull a name out of the hat and one lucky signer upper would win a subscription to Horizon worth$3 ,000. and we can't do that in this podcast because it's only a few days for us after the last podcast but for you dear listener it's fully a week so hopefully you can wrap your head around what i've tried to explain and forgive us why we don't pull one lucky name out of the hat until next week when mike has come back tanned and golfed golfed um what are we talking today we're talking dividend
3:04Mike:stocks today and so i think this will be an interesting yeah an interesting topic because we We spent all last week, two days ago, last week, whatever it was. The thing I just explained. Last week to our listeners, talking about the power of growth stocks and a growth portfolio. And this is a different tact. I think it's a nice balance as well. This is important. Talking about diversified portfolios and all the rest. And I think this was my idea. This is more my type of businesses, I believe. So dividend stocks. And I think you kick us off there with just dividend investing in general, because it is a very different approach to what you do traditionally and not so much what I do, especially in my personal portfolio.
3:46Mike:But I think it's worth talking about the kind of differences in that approach and what to look for, because it wouldn't be the same as growth investing, obviously.
3:55Emmet:Oh, entirely. It's the other end of the spectrum. And I think to understand what dividend investing is, it's kind of worthwhile for the first time ever in 301 episodes, me talking about the origins of dividends are really what is it that a business can do with its excess cash? because every business ultimately exists to generate a net positive cash flow. And we tolerate and look at businesses that are underwater, losing money for a long period of time, which is usually put up with by backers and investors, employees and customers, because there's an anticipation that the business will be profitable someday.
4:34Emmet:But a lot of businesses and only the ones that truly survive end up profitable. So when a business generates more cash than it needs to run and grow and pay salaries and operate the business and do the rest, it pretty much has five options. You could argue there's six or seven, but ostensibly there's five options that a business can do when it's looking at its cash at the end of the year. Well, the first is reinvest in the business, which could come in the form of funding research and development, recruiting more people, expanding capacity, entering new markets, all that kind of stuff. So they have a pile of cash.
5:12Emmet:They see it in the bank counter, like, well, let's spend it to grow more.
5:16Mike:That's the approach that growth stocks that we kind of know and love would have all the time. Like, you know, Amazon is a perfect example of reinvesting for growth and not really even caring about profits. That's what they did so well. And that's what built such an incredible ecosystem.
5:31Emmet:And it is indeed the highest return, should be the highest return option for great growth companies. You want to see them take cash off the bottom line and plow it in to the front of the business to grow in some way. So that's the first way. The second is they can use cash to acquire other companies that are complementary. Most MBA students will have learned that's notoriously tricky. and easier said than done because when you buy a business you are faced with the integration of two separate cultures and systems and hr and finance and functions and if you do it well and if you are notoriously capable in that area it can be a very nice way to grow um but it is tricky unless you've done it a couple of times so the second way you can use cash is just buy a competitor or an adjacent company to accelerate growth or to gain capabilities.
6:27Mike:That fits into very much the growth profile as well.
6:31Emmet:It does. Peter Lynch in One Up On Wall Street famously described it as diversification as opposed to diversification because so often it worsens a business. It destabilizes them in some way that just was unforeseen. Last week, we spoke about Teladoc acquiring Livongo, which when you looked at the capabilities of both companies, highly, highly complimentary. You're like, oh yeah, one plus one equals three, but absolutely not. So one plus one was equal to 1.5 and that's probably being kind. And that brings into question what you pay, but let's not go down that cul-de-sac just today. So the third thing a business can use for cash is pay down debt, which is like running a household.
7:19Emmet:You know, if you have more cash at the end of a month or a year, you come into some kind of windfall, most people who have debt, whether it's a mortgage or car debt or credit card debt or whatever, will consider paying it down. It feels good to get rid of debt. Debt is like a big cloud outside your window. So by its retirement, you reduce the company's financial risk and take down or take out interest costs and you improve your resilience. Now, I've learned over the years that while Peter Lynch, again, in one up on Wall Street, spoke about how enterprise value ideally should be lower than market cap, which is a kind of fancy way of saying that the business has more cash than that.
8:00Emmet:That's something he looked on favorably. over on this side of the Atlantic, European companies that have done extraordinarily well historically are more inclined to take on more debt because it can be a very, very low interest rate and it's the cheapest form of capital. But anyway, without going into a whole podcast on that particular thing, the third thing a business can do is pay down debt. The fourth thing, which is a shareholder's favorite, is to buy back shares. And that comes in the form, we talk about it here often, where the management team get board approval to buy back X million or billion dollars worth of the company's shares in the next 12 months, which gives the CEO and her team the discretion to decide right now we're going to buy a million shares on the common market.
8:50Emmet:And effectively, when that happens, all of us normal folks outside of the company who own a share in the business, our tiny little slice of the pie gets a tiny bit bigger because the number of shares in circulation has been reduced. And it is a shareholder-friendly thing to do.
9:09Mike:And the reason for that is that it's tax-efficient, essentially. What we would mostly recommend, depending on your stage in life and however you are, for your dividends to reinvest back in the business. And so in doing so, what a shareholder, what a buyback is essentially doing, is doing that for you without getting charged tax on your dividend you pay. If that makes sense. I hope I'm being clear enough about that. So they're very much one and the same for me, in my head, anyways. This episode is brought to you by Nespresso. Introducing Virtual Up, the latest in a long line of innovation from Nespresso.
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10:08Emmet:Yeah, and I agree. And to a wider point that you are making is very often where you appropriate your cash is a consequence of the tax laws because there's this, it's the invisible force field that guides the hand that's deploying the cash. Like if you're getting massive R &D tax credits, it would make sense to deploy cash into r &d similarly if it makes more tax sense or you get more efficiency for your dollar or your euro in buying back shares then that would become a more favored option but the fifth thing you can do with your business again there isn't a hard list of five but just the fifth thing you can do is return cash directly to shareholders usually on a regular schedule.
10:54Emmet:I mean, there are other things, as I mentioned. Like, for example, you could decide you're investing in Bitcoin. And that's kind of one. It's not quite number six. You can build a list out. And there's been a whole load of high-profile companies that invested in Bitcoin only to effectively become a proxy for the crypto. Michael Saylor's outfit, what's it called? MicroStrategy? I think it's just strategy now, but MicroStrategy, yeah. Oh, yeah. So there are companies that there's a sixth use for capital. and there's a seventh that I haven't thought of and there's an eighth but dividends are the best understood as uh one one choice among several but by no means not the default so if I may Mike before we kind of start to talk about companies um I'm touching on what what we already started well why do businesses pay dividends um apart from what might be tax advantages and I only say might They pay dividends when they just simply cannot reinvest their excess cash with an attractive rate of return.
11:54Emmet:They just can't see a better option, which also shows a maturity of judgment.
11:59Mike:100%. You made the five distinctions there. But in reality, an awful lot of businesses would do all five. Do you know what I mean? A dividend will come at the end. And it's kind of funny because it's almost like the point of a public company when they originally started. with was it was the dutch east india trading very first yeah yes the point of that that like unofficial contract was i will give you money now and you will pay me my dividend as a shareholder and then public companies have obviously developed a lot in the 500 years since but it's funny that dividends come number fifth in kind of uh that list of priorities of excess cash now and i think that's not every business's approach but it's a lot of businesses approach
12:45Emmet:that's correct and so they do as a consequence like these big giant mature mature businesses of which we're going to discuss six in a few minutes uh they attract a specific shareholder base who are income focused um income focused investors who more often than not i suspect are a little bit uh older than average you could say people my own age and a little older because they want to turn down the risk dial there's pension funds and then there's insurers and very often again was just written in peter lynch's book god i'm really it's like i've memorized i probably have memorized the book by the way he did talk about the effect where if enough institutional investors come into your business in other words pension funds they will set the scene and almost force a dividend so there are years once you switch on a dividend it's highly irregular and frowned upon to switch it off or even to reduce it or even to reduce it it's a one-way switch it's a complete no-no it's a oh my goodness it's such a faux pas we're not paying a dividend this year sorry we need the cash for other things what are you talking about oh boy i invested so there's these invisible forces on a business and a just way of doing it because investors who go in on a dividend company want this reliability over growth they're like well i can see met over there i'm not interested i want you johnson and johnson uh keep selling plastic hips and and paracetamol or whatever it is johnson johnson does talcum powder uh healthy talcum powder um but we we just keep doing and giving us our money um so really the the investors and dividend companies simply put want to higher certainty and lower risk and that does not come in the form of reducing a dividend And also, I think it's really worth me saying that dividends reduce flexibility for a company as a consequence of this.
14:40Emmet:Once it started, it can't stop. I remember years ago saying to our CTO, Alejandro, we had built the most wonderful investment app in the world, as a lot of our listeners will recall. Tough business to make work. and at the time I said to Alejandro okay now we need an iPad edition and he went why and I said well because we want one for Android and one for Apple we want everything we need to be we need to have an iPad edition and he said well okay but only three percent of the traffic in the app world comes through iPads I said it doesn't matter we need to do it we're growing fast 60 ,000 new people signing up every every week or whatever it was and he said okay but you do know if i instruct the team to build ipad editions because there was the apple ipad and then all these other android ones he said once you switch it on we just can't switch it off deprecating it is not a thing and i remember there was a lesson in it and it actually has a dotted line through to invest dividends if a management team start you know well you might need money later but you better or not look at your dividends or the street will frown it's a little like somebody sending you a birthday card for three years in a row and then you're a bad person if you quit you're like imagine if i sent you and then you're like i wonder why he didn't send me a card this year whereas your brother who never sent you a card is still good you're like i he never sent me a card but emmet stopped like you just can't stop you have to keep going until you die so um anyway uh mike can i enthrall you and our valued listeners which are growing growing fast i'll tell you about that in a sec can i tell you about a brief history of dividends because you touched on it you opened that can of worms and you know me i love a little quick uh history lesson please well i'm not going to start with the royal dutch uh east what is it the east royal dutch company i always get the the three the east indian east indian trading company is that correct we'll take it that will do i'm not going to start there that one uh but in the 19th and 20th centuries dividends were primarily the way investors investors earned returns because capital markets were way less liquid like even when i was a young fella and i mean we're not talking hundreds of years ago in order to sell a share you needed a piece of paper you needed a broker you need to bring that piece of paper, aka a share store, to that broker.
17:12Emmet:And it was a slow process and it was far trickier. So an accounting standards before my time were weaker and dividends were the only tangible proof that a company was profitable. So you got a check in the post. So there was just kind of hard locked into, you were locked into this dividend check. So from the 1950s to the 1980s, dividends started to become institutionalized, meaning blue chip companies started to pay them regularly as we're discussing. And valuation was often discussed around dividend yield and framed around dividend yield. And I remember being a kid, being in the presence of conversations where the dividend yield was the exciting central point of the story of a business, not the business.
18:00Mike:But I think you made a great point there. And it ties back in with what I was saying about, but it's funny how dividends have come kind of so far down the list of priorities is because of maybe markets developing in the way they have and liquidity, especially they're not as important as they once were.
18:16Emmet:Yeah, that's right. They're not. Yeah, there's probably a load of reasons for that. In the 80s and 90s, share buybacks really started to become hot trend. They gained prominence, especially in America. America has led the way on all things stock market. They don't have the first stock market that was in Antwerp. They don't have the largest stock market, believe it or not, that's in Mumbai. But what they have is the most bedded down capital market in the world by a million miles. I'm sorry. No, that's not quite fair.
18:49Mike:I think it is fair. I think it's like two thirds of global market cap is from the US now. Yeah. It's completely come to dominate global markets. And I know that's cyclical and international stocks are catching up and whatever else. But in terms of where innovation is and where big money goes, it's all in America. It's unbelievable. This is true.
19:13Emmet:So thank you for that. My point was that share buybacks really started to gain prominence in the kind of late 90s. I remember reading on the Motley Fool website this thing about share buybacks and the Gardner brothers explaining to me in their immutable way the way value is created with share buybacks. But as you said, it was down to tax treatment and it favored where like tax treatment often favored capital gains over dividend income. So it was just a smarter way of using capital. And in essence, when a company buys back its own shares, as I said, it just reduces the number in circulation but now in the modern era in 2026 and i'll shut up in one second many of the world's best performing companies the ones we talk about here endlessly for hundreds of episodes end on end um they don't pay any heed to dividends they're the amazon's alphabets metas google's teslas they they just don't do it because they want the optionality of having that cash to do it what they need to do with it at a future point in time.
20:20Emmet:And if they're going to do something with their cash, they'll do reinvestments and buybacks. Apple, as an example, is one that crossed the Rubicon and started to pay a dividend there a couple of years ago. And it was a big who at the time. And it was a huge dividend.
20:37Mike:Apple, Google and Facebook have most recently announced is a special dividend because Zuckerberg still owns crazy amount of uh facebook that his dividend check was something like six or seven hundred million in one check um yeah yeah but again it's never been their priority they're they're trillion dollar growth stocks which sounds like an oxymoron but it's not with yeah with these businesses but it's true and like in fairness i know that like apple dividend was never priority but share buybacks are what kind of transformed the business or maybe not so much transformed the business, it's transformed the stock because it became a complete share cannibal under Tim Cook's leadership.
21:18Mike:And that's really what's led to an awful lot of gains. So yeah, it is funny when like, you know, you make the distinction between the two while they are still so similar. So we talk about these businesses maybe not favoring dividends, but if you look at buybacks, they're actually kind of a key part of their financial strategy if not their kind of growth strategy I guess.
21:42Emmet:Before you and I start to talk about six great dividend paying investments I want to just loop back to one thing I alluded to there which was in last week's podcast we were at 10 000 listeners on subscribers on youtube and on this week's podcast and this is the real me right now today taking a extrapolating numbers on this week's podcast we're just about past 11 000 subscribers on youtube youtube is growing fast first so my ask to you dear listener is just subscribe on whatever platform you listen to because backstage that stuff helps us and if you enjoy the show it's the lowest friction way of showing us some love so there you go subscribe like and follow for more spam that like button give me five stars leave me a review okay only if they're good leave us a review but only if it's good
22:38Mike:okay we'll get into the stock so it's about time let's do it we've been faffing for 20 minutes uh do you want to go first there we'll play a game okay why not so um well when i hear the
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22:48Emmet:word dividends and when you said to me hey we did a growth stock edition let's do a dividend edition only one word every time flares into my mind there's certain um hot buttons on my mind i think i told you before when i hear the word activision the number 11 comes into my mind because i own shares in activision and pretty much checked when i was earlier in a greenhorn investor check the share price five times a day as you do in the early stages of your investing life for years on end and it was always 11 so I ended up when I hear the word Activision the number 11 appears in front of my eyes similarly when I hear the word dividend only one word just instantly comes into my hand head which is aristocrats okay and this is the one ETF that I have most admired in my life and the one I wish I could own if I didn't live in a country that treats ETF investing like the second cousin of something underhand.
23:51Mike:Well I'm glad you brought that up because we're going to have a little mini conversation at the end of this podcast on that so keep going.
23:59Emmet:We are well I'm going to preempt it with a mini rant because in Ireland as most of our listeners know and to our American listeners sorry just hold your breath for 30 seconds okay thanks to this thing called an eight-year deemed disposal rule which effectively taxes long-term ETF holders whether they sell or not it makes ETFs impossible to invest in if you're familiar with the movie Goodfellas here's an analogy I re-watched Goodfellas probably my most watched movie of my life I watched it the other night with my with my younger son who's old enough to see it and you might remember there's a scene where Henry Hill, Ray Liotta's character, explains in his narrative the benefits of having the mafia involved in your business, where all your suppliers will always deliver on time.
24:47Emmet:All your debtors will pay the money they owe you, but you better pay up to Pauly at the end of the month. You better pay up. And he'd use the expression, F you, where's my money? And no matter what you better pay your money i look on etf investing in ireland a bit like that where it's like are you kidding me i'm being extorted to pay tax on something i haven't crystallized every eight years okay rant over take your breath americans it's so wrong anyway anyway the different aristocrats is it has a ticker called noble n-o-b-l isn't that a lovely ticker like nobility already you're picturing monocles and top hats you're like oh i want a bit of that that's a nice one so nobl is truly one of the most beautiful and i just have lusted after the dividend aristocrats for years because it's chart is of stuff of lore if you just go and just nobl look at its chart it looks like the side of of the hanen cam in in in austria it's just this beautiful straight line up now the s p 500 dividend aristocrats to give it its full name is an index of US companies that have increased their dividend every single year for at least 25 consecutive years.
26:08Emmet:So that's the qualifying criteria to make the club. And it also needs to meet size and liquidity requirements. But if we ignore our little tax quirk, which we're going to talk about, pure mafia at the end, and I don't like complaining about anything. I really don't, my despite sitting opposite each other for so long i don't like complaining about stuff unless i've really given it a good shot at fixing it and alas i have actually submitted a view on the hot mess called um hr deemed disposal through the solid through very solid channels but here we are but the reason i love dividend aristocrats is is i think is the most certain 10.9 percent compounded annual growth rate you'll ever find that's that's my claim i think it is the most solid investment in the world.
26:56Emmet:That's why I love it.
26:58Mike:When you want your spring break to feel like and your kids' pool day to feel like and your hotel bed to feel like and room service to feel like because at Hilton, hospitality feels like
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27:19Mike:It matters where you stay. book now at hilton.com hilton for this day very good but i'm gonna match you with uh solidity for my first one uh it's a company i've mentioned a few times on the podcast it's called investor ab it's dubbed the swedish berkshire hathaway um oh lovely uh i've talked about it a lot i haven't talked about it in a while though and i think it's very and i'm delighted you're talking about it again because
27:48Emmet:my gray old hair and the brain underneath that has kind of forgotten but i remember the excitement i felt the last time you spoke about it but that's all i remember the feeling
27:58Mike:so it's a big huge conglomerate similar to berkshire it owns a big stakes in a bunch of public companies that's about 70 of its portfolio then it has a subsidiary called patricia industries so it's a holy it's a holding company that then has its own subsidiaries they're primarily focused on medtech healthcare and industrials that's about 20 of the portfolio and then the last 10 is its private equity arm called eqt uh it's over 100 years old i think it's about 110 years old sweden's largest company it invests heavily in sweden which we know produces some incredible public companies and and in that guys i suppose it's kind of a bet on sweden sweden's economy overall do you know what i mean um so with that in mind i own solid bet which is a great bet Exactly.
28:44Mike:We've talked about the length of the quality of public companies coming from Sweden. It's actually my largest position in my own personal portfolio. I don't plan on selling anytime soon. It's funny because when we talk about dividends and you're talking about when you see the number 11, Activision Blizzard, when you hear dividends, you think of aristocrats. When I hear dividends, this is my first significant, but first actual, oh, wow, that's some money coming in to my portfolio there when the quarterly dividend comes in, which is great to see. So that's why I had it on the list. It's an incredibly diversified business, obviously.
29:21Mike:It does focus on certain industries. So you'll see a lot of medtech, industrials, pharmaceuticals, financial services in there. Some of its largest holdings are obviously Swedish. The team running through these, AstraZeneca, Saab, Ericsson, Atlas, Copco, Nasdaq, Sobe. you remember soby i think we talked about on the podcast the biopharma focusing on orphan drugs
29:43Emmet:oh yeah yeah we only spoke about it three weeks ago that's why i can't remember it three weeks
29:48Mike:come on give me a break um but yeah importantly for this conversation it's very focused on shareholders shareholder distribution so slap bang in the middle of its investor relations page is i'm quoting this our strong balance sheet and cash flow generation cash flow generation enable us to invest and support our goal to pay a steadily rising dividend we operate efficiently and with low management costs in relation to our assets. It's a very boring statement, but it says a lot. It's a great diversified mix. The dividend yield is about 1.5%, which is probably a little light for this episode. But it's important when looking at a company, you have to look beyond just the current yield.
30:23Mike:A lot of dividend stocks may have high dividend yields, but that can tell you something else. That can tell you that this stock is in decline. Not all of them, obviously, whereas investor AB has grown at 15 % a year for the last 20. Oh, brilliant. So it's tough for a dividend to keep up with that kind of performance, obviously, hence why the yield might be a little bit biased. I just believe it's a great bedrock stock to own. Similar to Berkshire, really, it's not going to provide huge returns, but it's also a stock that doesn't really need much monitoring. It's kind of a set and forget. So that's first for me, and I think it fits in very well with the theme of this episode.
30:57Emmet:It certainly does. One thing you said there that was quite interesting to me, and i'm not going to put it to you because this would really be putting you in the hot seat is you mentioned saab and i thought that that brand had been retired and when it was overtaken
31:10Mike:by scania so sad anyway it's not it's not sad the car well it is sad it's the same but they don't produce cars anymore they're a military um manufacturer is that so there you go i did not
31:25Emmet:know that every day is a school day mike thank you for that now um okay so we've both pitched one i'm going to move on and just as I cannot buy dividend aristocrats ETF which we'll talk about quite soon I probably would not buy so I cannot buy dividend aristocrats I probably wouldn't buy the next one believe it or not because it sells something that I don't like and it's a business that I believe does more bad than good as a consequence of the field that operates in but billions of people would disagree with me by being regular customers and the company is Altria Group who and they make cigarettes and by the way a little like politics and religion your personal ethics are as personal as your thumbprint so I'm certain there are thousands of people who wouldn't invest in like Disney because they're like no I they ethically do something that I don't like and I heard about this and that and the other you know we only have to rewind a year or two ago and there was people absolutely outraged by tesla and ethically they would not invest in tesla though tesla the company hadn't done anything wrong so ethics is a and by i'm alluding to elon musk's doge and involvement in the administration of time so there are always going to be ethical lines in an investment and i'll ask my ones invisible and personal only to me what applied to altria group who through its subsidiaries manufacturers and sell smokable and oral tobacco products in the u.s primarily and the company provides cigarettes most it's best known for marlborough the marlborough brand the marlborough man as as the brand was once known it before and make cigar and make cigars and pipe tobacco under the black and mild brand um and then it has smokeless tobacco products under the copenhagen skull red seal husky brands and it provides on oral nicotine pouches um and it sells tobacco products to wholesale distributors large retail organizations so basically wherever there's tobacco or nicotine fixes, Altria Group is most likely there.
33:40Emmet:And it was founded ages ago. It was kind of, it's nearly as old as America. It was founded in 1822. It's headquartered in Richmond in Virginia. And Virginia was, as we all know, once, I guess, was it the world capital of tobacco? It kind of, the movies would have you believe so, but it certainly was one of the power centers of, of tobacco. Now, let me just tell you about the business just for a minute. When I plot three things on one graph revenue is flat it's as flat as a pancake but it was slightly peaky around 2021 very barely rises from let's say 2015 up to from from about 19 uh billion in 2015 to 21 billion in the year 2021 and it's back down to 21.1 billion all of that to say is the revenue line is very flat.
34:31Emmet:If you look at the stock price, it has also remained relatively flat. It's a little bit up. It's just kind of moved up and down. It's kind of around 70 bucks a pop at the moment. But the dividend yield, and this is where you might decide you want a full pride and an empty pocket like me, or a full pocket and a heggwitcher pride is really impressive. The dividend yield is currently around 6%. And that's low. It's been as high as 8 % and 9 % in the last few years. And when I look across the 10 years that have passed, it's kind of sitting around 6 % quite constantly. So we're looking at a business that pretty much every year sells the same amount of stuff as last year, certainly is measured by dollars, but it's throwing off five six occasionally seven occasionally eight nine percent that is a great dividend income and if you if i had to build a portfolio of a dozen stocks or indeed six stocks that was predicated on a dividend income i'd have to strongly consider it yeah and i was just looking
35:43Mike:at the stock chart there it's had a hot start to the year too it's interesting you're talking Naltria and Porter Stansbury when he was on the line. Correct. He was talking Philip Morris. Yes. Oh yeah, that parallel was very strong.
35:56Emmet:Yeah, it's a duopoly of sorts and you're right. So yeah, Porter was big into Philip Morris. Yeah.
36:03Mike:Yeah. So it's completely where you draw your own lines. Vice stocks are very much a thing and people might have no problem investing in alcohol stocks but draw the line at cigarettes or whatever else so yeah um okay my next one i am going i'm staying international for this one as well i'm gonna go tokyo marine uh so it's one of japan's largest insurers it's got four main divisions domestic non-life insurance domestic life insurance international insurance and financial and other insurance cover a lot of boxes there now the reason why I'm picking it is twofold. So the first is usually a pretty huge overhaul in Japanese stocks as a whole.
36:45Mike:So the Nikkei 225, the Japanese version of the S &P 500, that was famously underwater for about 40 years. So from the dregs of the Japanese asset bubble of the late 80s up until a few years ago, you were basically losing money in all Japanese stocks, not all Japanese stocks obviously but um it is kind of crazy the journey that they have been on and so up until last few years there's been systemic pressure from the government to become to to make public companies a lot more shareholder friendly and redistribute kind of the trillions and hundreds of trillions of yen uh that these companies are holding cash reserves to shareholders uh in the form of dividends and buybacks just to invite retail investors in basically um so that's one the main reasons why i think i just interested in japanese stocks uh at all um especially for these more mature businesses that do have those cash reserves and are willing willing to kind of bend to the government to become a lot more retail investor friendly and then it's also uh benefiting from rising interest rates which is a new economic policy in japan as well which as a rule tends to be very positive for insurers so two government trends kind of at its back there and then in terms of the corporate governance overhaul, Tokyo Marine has become somewhat of a poster boy for the policy shift.
38:10Mike:It employs what's called a progressive dividend policy, which means that the dividend usually increases in step with earnings, but if earnings fall, the dividend will not be reduced. It's currently sitting well above a 3%.
38:21Emmet:It will not be increased, you mean? It might be reduced, I presume.
38:24Mike:It will increase with earnings, but it won't be reduced if earnings fall.
38:29Emmet:Oh, it won't? Oh, sorry. So what you said is correct. sorry never mind i i thought you meant something else but you meant what you said sorry yeah so
38:36Mike:it's currently sitting well above a three percent yield which is no joke and then more importantly shares are up almost 300 in the past five years off the back of this new wave of interest in japanese stocks and it's kind of hitting a real purple patch it's very it's not very interesting business it's one of the bigger insurance insurance companies in the country but all of those secular trends behind it make it a very interesting stock and you know if you have that combo of rising stock price and a high dividend yield it's a very deadly very deadly combination and one two punch so it's a great it's a great stock to look at if you're interested in the region i think it fits into this episode just because it is quite boring dividend stocks are going to be boring that's just how it goes but uh tokyo marine uh nice one especially if you're interested in the region i think that's uh very much there's a lot of strength happening there under this new uh prime minister as well she seems very growth focused and i think a lot of the established older companies in japan are going to be benefited going to be beneficiaries
39:38Emmet:nice well done mike i like that one all right my turn and final pick is a is one i know quite well all right at the very least i know the industry very well and the cto of this business is one of my besties and his name is iago tenorio and the company is verizon telecoms which is as i think most of our listeners will know the largest telecoms provide one of the i don't know if it is i think it's the largest telecom provider in the u.s it operates nationwide wireless fiber networks it delivers mobile voice data broadband the usual stuff it's your telecom provider whether it's your vodafone it's your o2 it's your verizon so it basically sells to anyone who needs a sim or at least what would have once been called the same ECM or real same consumers, businesses, governments, the whole nine yards.
40:29Emmet:Now, wireless is its core business. It generates the vast majority of its revenue and profit from tens of millions of postpaid subscribers who provide this really predictable recurring cash flow. And the services are essential rather than discretionary. So even to the microscopic individual, a bit like cigarette smoking, which we ascertain from porter is an addictive thing which i don't like um having your mobile phone if you're looking at cutting down or killing bills you won't kill your mobile phone you might try and get a better tariff but it is extremely sticky so verizon's competitive position has been built out from decades and decades of investment in spectrum and network and infrastructure and routers and scooters which they tie together with strings and wires and radio dishes and fiber optic and they sell the output of those routers and scooters and we all need it.
41:23Emmet:And it's traditionally competed. The industry has for many years competed on coverage and I suppose reliability and network quality rather than aggressive pricing because that is a race to the bottom. So you don't want to go into a price war. It's ugly business. So what they do is they say, we have a better network, more reliable, better billing, better services. And they try and attract premium customers and enterprise clients so alongside wireless um as i mentioned they operate a fiber broadband business under oh it's a different brand i forget what they call it but it's they offer high speed internet uh in certain urban markets which i always think is a bit of a diversification it makes sense if we're going in we have a bundled offer and if you get your wireless and your wires and your television this and the other um but anyway that's verizon everybody knows it um And it's one that doesn't need a whole load of explanation.
42:19Emmet:But looking forward, Verizon's prospects are really defined now by its execution and cash generation as opposed to massive expansion. I think the big threat that looms for all telcos is up in the sky. and i don't know enough about the latency from satellites beaming broadband in both directions but we've all seen that dish at the side of your house pointing up at something mr musk sent up there is is a viable substitute for certain broadband use cases and the heavy spending phase of 5g rollout is starting to subside and there basically means that free cash flow is starting to improve 5g increases the network efficiency capacity and i don't even know what 6g is going to bring just more everything is turned up to 11 and um and there you have it so revenue growth is likely to be quite slow incremental in verizon and i guess retention is their big thing and so it just generates oodles of cash and i guess over time verizon should be is really just a critical infrastructure again looking at the same graph as i did a moment ago um revenue has been growing modestly uh it has had a 10-year compounded annual growth of 0.5 but it's big numbers like 138 billion dollars in revenue uh in 2025 it appears and the share price has been a little bit um it's kind of gone down a bit then up a bit we're talking about over 10 years yeah well i was i was looking at the chart and i believe this
44:07Mike:is a case of a dividend yield kind of outpacing a stock price growth yeah oh yeah yeah so the stock trade sideways for a while and the dividend keeps increasing of course the yield is going to improve but this is kind of going back to my example a small bit of why a high dividend yield isn't always a good thing. And why there might be more value in a stock that has a 2 % or a 1.5 % dividend yield, but it's been consistently growing on top of that. I think it's a good stock to bring up to highlight this conversation because I think looking back 10 years ago, it could have been the same thing. You could have bought shares of Verizon with a 5 % yield, or you could have bought shares of Investor AB with a 1 % yield.
44:55Mike:And even if you're an income-focused investor, the easy decision there in hindsight was investor a b because yeah it's the combination of dividend growth but stock price appreciation as well so it is it is a good example and like it is one of the higher dividend yields in the s p 500 but this dividend yield doesn't kind of it's nearly not a
45:17Emmet:positive if that makes sense there's a it's funny what there's the sky's the limit for a share price we all we've discussed there is no top point beyond which you cannot grow there's a top point in every business uh where it will not grow through the nature of the decisions made in the market it operates in but we we often say if you invest a thousand dollars in a company the most you can lose is a thousand dollars whereas the sky's the limit you can that share price can go wherever it's going to go but i think with dividends there's a different there's a glass ceiling or i don't know what you want to call it there there's this pers you rarely see it go above 10 and when you do it comes back down from that point and if you start with the 10 dividend yield that should be alarm bells alarm bells because something is broken they're compensating for something if they're shoveling cash out the door um so at the moment verizon's dividend is around six percent and you're right it is one of the better ones is their growth but if you're looking for a business um that it has great capital growth uh prospects i think verizon is a fine company i think we can all bet it isn't going to go it isn't going to crumble but i think it is bought and held in pension funds for that annual or rather that quarterly dividend that arrives into the bank account kayak gets my flight hotel and rental car right so i can tune out travel
46:42Mike:advice that's just plain wrong bro skycoin way better than points never fly during a scorpio full moon just tell the manager you'll sue instant room upgrade stop taking bad travel advice start
46:56Emmet:comparing hundreds of sites with kayak and get your trip right bad advice you talking to me kayak got that right
47:07Mike:yeah okay for my last one i'm kind of tapping out with this one and going back to the stock i was talking about last week which is wm waste management oh right i know it's a cop-out i just love the business i think it's gone straight to my watch list it has increased its annual dividend every year without fail for 20 years in a row current current dividend yield of 1.4 percent but on the topic of this conversation you know that that might be light now but i it's an almost guarantee of incremental improvements year on year on year provides very strong dividend growth opportunity um so that's why i mentioned and i'm also mentioning because it is this month's stock of the month uh i'm giving it away here for our listeners it's a business that is just so up my alley scale advantages pretty much unassailable economic moat i kind of break that down and more in march's stock of the month if you want to sign up it's on the website we'll add a link into the show notes as well but yeah paying less than a two percent dividend right now but i'm very bullish on delivering consistent dividend increase what is especially interesting
48:08Emmet:to me mike is that that major list of six growth stocks last week and six dividend stocks this week which really does speak to the point you made repeatedly repeatedly through the podcast but you want a business that has capital appreciation ahead as well as dividend growth so really and then i i knew you you'd selected it for stock in a month so uh you could not really bless a stock anymore and in fact when i interviewed porter stansbury i i put it to him it's one of your it's one of his favorites and indeed uh it is a great business so there's money
48:44Mike:in garbage okay just before we finish up i want to highlight some positive news for irish investors listening uh simon harris the minister of finance came out recently with some very bullish comments about changing investment laws in the country uh so minister of finance is the main man when it comes to this stuff and he's working on a retail investment roadmap which he hopes will be put into play by budget 2027. he stated some few quotes here he stated that ireland is a laggard at european level when it comes to retail investing and he wants to squeeze middle to be able to make substantial returns on investments he noted that there's 170 billion euros sitting in Irish deposits, earning basically no interest.
49:21Mike:And he wants to make money work for them. So he highlighted the need to address deemed disposal, which we talked about, thank bejesus. And he mentioned examining the Canadian and Swedish models for tax-free or tax-advantaged savings accounts. So there's two big things there at the end. But deemed disposal, kind of already on the chopping block, it went from 41 % to 38 % in budget 2026. Investors were hoping for an awful lot more if not complete eradication but the way it's being mentioned in the media the way it's being mentioned by the politicians there it really feels like i do think it's on the way out i think the direction of travel is going the right way for that now intention and execution there's a big gap there especially when it comes to irish politics but i definitely feel positive of where we're going there the second thing you mentioned there about following the canadian and swedish models is particularly interesting because this is a big step up in rhetoric from what we've heard so far.
50:18Mike:So to just give an insight on the Canadian Swedish models, the Canadian model, the TFSA, it's a tax-free savings account that allows a set annual contribution where all gains and withdrawals are entirely tax-free. The Swedish model, known as the ISK, it's an investment savings account where instead of capital gains tax on every trade, the user pays a very small annual flat tax, often less than 1 % of the total value of the count. So Sweden also includes a tax-free threshold for the first 28 grand. So both of those are fitting into the model of kind of an ISA from the UK or a 401k or a Roth IRA from the US, where it's something I think Irish investors desperately need.
50:58And it's a real, real incentive for retail investors
51:02Mike:to come into the play, come into the fore more and more. It's not just Harris either. Ireland is set to take over the EU presidency this year. And Michal Martin has stated that advancing the savings and investment union will be a key strategic property. He's supporting a European Commission recommendation for a standardized savings and investment account across the EU. And like this, I think there's$11 trillion in household savings that's just sitting in bank accounts doing absolutely nothing. And so it's getting that money to work for investors because we've talked about it at length, how stock investing and just investing in the markets.
51:36Mike:And if it's as simple as indexing and not knowing what's going on, just set it and forget it and come back in 40 years, even if it is that great approach, but it is prohibitive for a lot of tax reasons. And unfortunately, that's really put people off. And I think this is only one step. So making the tax system more agreeable is one step, but you also have to educate the masses after that. So it is trying to fix itself. I think it's a broken system now, but we have a lot of positive, a lot of positive movement. So we have the auto enrollment that just came in in January. We have what this retail investment roadmap will look like and hopefully be enacted in budget 2027.
52:20Mike:I think there is a real positive momentum when it comes to retail investing in Ireland. And And for that, yeah, I'm hopeful. I really hope that we're going to see a real change and that the adaption and the education of it and just the power of stockfesting will become more and more powerful in Ireland because it isn't there at the minute. And you're looking at countries where they have embraced that. We mentioned Sweden, obviously the US, even the UK. It's changed how people can create wealth, create wealth slowly and do it in such a way that it's a hands-off experience because, you know, stock investing, like picking stocks, it is niche.
52:58Mike:It's great. Oh, it is. It's finding, you know, it's a hobby as much as anything. But that's not including just the regular Joe who's like, okay, I don't even want to be too involved. Is there anything I can do that's completely brainless and I don't have to worry about it? And introducing laws and tax systems that help people do that is so important. And I think hopefully we're having this conversation in, you know, next year when budget 2027 is out and people are figuring out now okay now is the time i start investing because it's there for me the roadmap is there you know the the facilities are there that i can do this in a tax advantaged way and it makes sense for once finally so yeah that's my little rant and uh hopefully hopefully we're going to see some big improvements over the coming year
53:47Emmet:Well said and well described. I remember many moons ago being interviewed, sorry, interviewed, invited to meet the Minister for Finance, who at the time was called Michael Noonan, a very nice man, very capable man. and I arrived at government buildings and I had an encyclopedia in my mind. Now, the soapbox I was arriving with was CGT, Capital Gains Tax in Ireland. I don't think I had the mafia thing. I don't think I had the goodfellas analogy ready to go, but I had plenty to say. So I arrived up at the Department of Finance where he lives and I hate doing Emmett Savage. here to see minister noonan and they're like looking through a bit of paper looking through a bit of paper they said oh he's out in fitzpatrick's hotel in kalini castle uh waiting for you i'm like excuse me uh you have never seen anyone drive so fast to a meeting and i thought to myself if the guardie the irish police stopped me i can go i'm going to see michael noonan they might even give me a police escort but i went down the bus lanes the whole i made it i got there in time ish um there's something okay there's something very arrogant about arriving to meet a minister late but i explained to him my faux pas and he was super nice about it anyway not relevant but i did at that meeting raise the fu well i didn't i didn't say a few words my money but i did raise the deemed disposal thing was just not fair so i'm glad at long last that needle is
55:24Mike:moving yeah yeah so hopefully we'll see now as i said before there might be a difference in intention and execution which is unfortunately the case i think we saw that in budget 2026 but yeah the the direction of travel is is pointed in the right direction so that's a plus yeah for sure thank you for joining we're approaching an hour again we need to we need to tighten up these podcasts we're ranting too much we're having too good a time i won't rant ever again yeah i believe it when i see it emmett thank you for joining me and thank you everyone for listening and if you have got this far you obviously enjoy the show so much so please do give us a like give us a review uh whatever you're listening to us on whether it's youtube whether it's spotify whether it's apple podcast just click the little subscribe button it does help the business so thank you very much and we'll talk rinse knows that greatness takes time but so does laundry.
56:18Mike:So Rince will take your laundry and hand deliver it to your door
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56:25Mike:Time once spent sorting and waiting, folding and queuing, now spent challenging and innovating and pushing your way to greatness. So pick up the Irish flute or those calligraphy pens or that daunting beef Wellington recipe card and leave the laundry to us. Rince, it's time to be great. Watch you next week.
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This week, we’re heading to safer shores — trading moonshots for mailboxes — and bringing you Emmet and Mike’s favorite dividend stocks.
We’re growth investors at heart and would usually rather see smart R&D spending than dividend distributions. But for many investors, especially those approaching retirement, a few value stocks can be a smart addition to a portfolio.
Emmet walks us through why a company might start offering a dividend — and why it might not. The decision can come down to a mix of cash availability, tax laws, pressure from large shareholders, and a desire to stay in the market’s good graces over the long term.
He kicks things off with the Dividend Aristocrats (NOBL) ETF, an index of US companies that have increased their dividends for 25 consecutive years and meet certain size and liquidity requirements. Emmet calls it “the most solid investment in the world.”
He then revisits the pitch from recent Stock Club guest Porter Stansberry and makes the case for Altria Group Inc (MO). He finishes his list with Verizon (VZ), a wireless giant with a healthy moat and a 6%+ dividend. But it’s also staring down the looming threat of satellite internet providers.
Mike returns to familiar territory with Investor AB (STO: INVE-B), the “Swedish Berkshire Hathaway”, it's a holding company with stakes in public companies, medtech firms, and smaller private businesses. It’s a lovely way to snag a piece of the Swedish economy and is currently Mike’s largest position.
He then heads east with Tokio Marine (TYO: 8766), a Japanese insurance company riding the wave of the country’s stock market recovery. He shocks no one by pitching a stock that made last week’s portfolio as well: Waste Management (WM). At least this time, you get the reassurance that it’s also this month’s Stock of the Month.
We wrap up by checking in on Finance Minister Simon Harris’s recent comments about deemed disposal and the avenues available for investing in Ireland. With €170 billion sitting in Irish bank accounts, it’s clear that at least some of it could be put to work.
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00:00 Intro
02:16 Dividend Stocks Setup
11:33 Why Dividends Stick
17:09 Modern Era Buybacks
21:34 Dividend Aristocrats ETF
25:46 Investor AB
29:45 Altria
34:33 Tokio Marine
37:58 Verizon
44:56 Waste Management
46:32 Irish Investing Law and Deemed Disposal
