Twitter pursues IPO as stocks of other prominent Internet companies climb to new highs + MORE Oct 2nd

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Top 100 Dividend Stocks – October 2013 EditionDividend investing is a huge part of my investment strategy. As I’ve mentioned in my now monthly passive income updates, receiving dividend income from my both my Ultimate Sustainable Dividend portfolio and my ETF portfolio is a primary driver of how my retirement will be like a few decades from now:)
Today for the first time, I started from the Russell 1000, a large cap index that (as you can imagine) includes twice as many names as the S&P500.
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In the next few days, I’ll be doing some research on a few of the top names on this month’s list. You can find out more by joining our mailing list, it’s 100% free:)
 
Top Name This Month….
Once again, the top name this month in terms of dividend yield is Windstream Corp (WIN) which has been on this list in the past. The dividend yield is high but the actual dividend has not changed in some time as you can see below:

A declining dividend is rarely a good sign and I’ll likely stay away from this one…

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SAN FRANCISCO – Internet stocks are heating up again, just as Twitter is preparing to turn up the temperature with its highly anticipated IPO.
Consider what’s happened in the past month: The once-scorned stocks of Netflix and Facebook have soared to new highs; Yahoo’s long-languishing stock has regained its vigour and surpassed $34 for the first time in nearly six years; enamoured investors just poured more than $1.7 billion into secondary stock offerings by LinkedIn and Pandora Media Inc.; and Priceline.com’s stock recently broke $1,000, catapulting past its peak reached in 1999 during the dot-com boom.
“There is great demand right now to invest in companies that could be powering the future, but it’s a window of opportunity that won’t last forever,” says BGC Financial analyst Colin Gillis.
As hot as some Internet stocks are, the fervour is nothing like it was in the late 1990s when investors minted dozens of unprofitable companies with rich market values…

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