Hello , welcome to the videos section
This is where you can view our previous webinars or videos. From time to time, we do exclusive live webinars for DSR members only. While you will get a better experience with the live versions, we thought it would be great if you could watch past presentations. We also put videos related to DSR tools or our investing strategy.
To make your life easier, we divided videos in clickable categories. You can also watch each video in YouTube by clicking on titles right below.
- DSR Tutorials
- Retirement
- Investing Strategy
- Divy 5: What the Heck is the Ex-Dividend Date and Can You Make Money Out of it?
- How to Build a Portfolio from Scratch and Make it Grow
- Spooky Stories on the Stock Market and How to Avoid Them
- What’s Best: High Yield, Low Growth or High Growth, Low Yield?
- Elections, Trade War, Recession; What Should You Do?
- Your Stock Drops 10%, Now What? – FedEx Case Study
- I’m Making Money: Should I Hold or Should I Sell?
- I’m Losing Money: Should I Hold or Should I Sell?
- Portfolio Management Tips
- Investing in 2019 and Beyond
- How to Invest 100K Today
- Stock Ideas
1. DSR Tutorials
September 2019: DSR Tools – How and When to Use Them
This video is an answer to a DSR member asking what’s the difference between the Ranking, the DSR Favorites, the Portfolio Models and the Buy List. As Dividend Stocks Rock is all about simplicity and efficiency, our goal is to cut the noise for you and help you build a better portfolio. Which, in turn, will hopefully lead to better returns. With that goal in mind, these 4 DSR key tools have been built to answer a different need in your investment journey. Let’s see how and when to use them!August 2019: How to Read the Stock Cards DDM Valuation
I got a question from one of our DSR PRO members. Jim wanted to have more insight on how to read and use the dividend discount model chart on each stock card. Although you should never buy only on valuation, you’ll now understand how to interpret the upside or downside potential and see if the stock price suits your investment needs.June 2019: Portfolio Fitness Series – Playlist of the 8 videos series!
I created this series as an exclusive resource giving you total access, step-by-step, to my full investing process. It is like having your own personal trainer telling you exactly what to do to stay fit.November 2018: DSR Stock Cards Tutorial
The DSR Stock Cards are one of the members’ favorite tool. This video should help you out in understanding all the strategy behind and why they have been built that way. Stock Cards will hold no secret from you now!
April 2018: Stock Valuation Workshop – The Dividend Discount Model Inside Out
We will dive deep inside the Rock Solid Ranking and I will share you my step-by step method to value stock using the Dividend Discount Model (DDM). You will learn how to use the DDM and read the valuation portion of our stock cards.2. Retirement
October 2019: How to Generate Income from Your Portfolio
There are tons of articles and videos about how to build your retirement portfolio. But once you get to that point, to the retirement step in your life, you’re pretty much left alone. How can you generate an income from that portfolio? That was Marie-Claude’s question, a DSR member. How should you withdraw your stocks? Which stocks should you sell? How much income should you take? Should you care about growth and sector allocation even at retirement? Watch the vid to get my answers to all these very good questions!September 2018: Dividend Safety – Make Sure Companies Pay Their Due In Time
How to make sure our stocks continue paying their dividend? Even better, how can we make sure companies will increase their dividend going forward? In this exclusive webinar, I dig into how earnings and payout ratios are calculated, I have a special section about REITs and I answer many members’ questions too!August 2018: How to build a retirement portfolio
In this webinar, we present our Canadian and US retirement portfolios. We explain our investing process and discuss asset allocation.3. Investing Strategy
Divy 5 : What the Heck is the Ex-Dividend Date and Can You Make Money Out of It?
The Divy 5 series is quite simple: Demistyfying Dividend Growth Investing by explaining a dividend investing concept in 5 minutes (or so). Clear, staightforward and concise, this series is especially designed for beginner and intermediate investors. This time, let’s see what is the ex-dividend date and how you can use it. Ever heard you could cash up some bucks with it? Is it true?November 2019: How to Build a Portfolio from Scratch and Make it Grow
Zeya, a DSR member, recently asked me how to start investing. With all the articles written on the topic, I must admit it can get confusing quickly and a beginner investor can get lost. It’s important to follow simple steps and to stick to them. Even the advanced investors out there can benefit from going back to the basics.October 2019: Spooky Stories on the Stock Market and How to Avoid Them
I’m quite a Halloween fan as it allows me to express my inner child! 😉 A spooky Halloween is a playground I very much like. But there are Spooky Stories to avoid, especially on the stock market. This time, I share my Top Spooky Story on the stock market and how I avoided repeating it. As I appreciate discussing and exchanging with you, I also invite you to share your own chilling experiences in the comments.October 2019: What’s Best: High Yield, Low Growth or High Growth, Low Yield?
Kevin asked me recently: “Mike, I noticed that there’s a tendency in dividends. Either you pick High Yield, Low Growth or High Growth, Low Yield. Which one should I choose in a long-term investment portfolio?” Well, it depends. It depends of your goals, of your risk tolerance, where you are at in your life, etc. Let’s clarify how, when and why you should select one… or the other!October 2019: Elections, Trade War, Recession; What Should You Do?
This time, I’m answering Steven’s question about the upcoming elections in Canda. More specifically, how will it influence his portfolio? Whether it is the Elections or the Trade War or a Recession or the Fed playing with the interest rate, how can we, as investors, predict the outcome and the real impact of such events? Is it even possible? Let’s see how a dividend growth investor can really react to macroeconomic events and if it is possible to take advantage from them.September 2019: Your Stock Drops 10%, Now What? – FedEx Case Study
Recently, I got an email from Helen, a DSR member, asking me to review FedEx (FDX) Stock Card. The day before her request, FDX lost 13% in a single day! More importantly, it lost $6B in market cap value! Can you feel the panic? What do we do? Well, it’s important to understand how and why the earnings can influence a stock. Then, you’ll know if it’s just noise or real problems!September 2019: I’m Making Money – Should I Hold or Should I Sell?
You carefully picked up high-quality stocks for your portfolio and now you’re making money! Congrats! Still, you’re not sure what to do. Should you sell your big winners and cash your profit? You can find more hidden gems, right? Or maybe should you keep them. Cause maybe there is even more profit coming up, right? And here goes the never ending buy&sell struggle! But really, what should you do? The key always resides in your investing strategy and your investment thesis. Let’s see what are the real questions you should ask yourself!August 2019: I’m Losing Money – Should I Hold or Should I Sell?
This video is an answer to one of our member’s question about Bank OZK losing money. Should he hold his shares or sell them? Well, it depends! Let’s see what you should consider and analyze before holding or selling a stock!February 2019: Portfolio Management Tips
In this DSR exclusive webinar, we went through many tips regarding portfolio management, like how to move your current holdings to a DSR portfolios, how to improve your sector allocation or how to prepare your portfolio for the withdrawal phase.January 2019: Investing in 2019 and Beyond
This webinar was held as a public one. I decided to share it on DSR because the topic was quite popular and very relevant to you as well. Many people have doubts about the market lately. You might as well not be too comfortable with your current portfolio. The fear of a market crash is all around. In this webinar, I shared the tricks and methodology I use personally and for DSR to avoid market pitfalls. With these in hand, you’ll know how to build a safe dividend portfolio!September 2018: How to Invest 100K Today
About a year ago, I invested 100K in an all-time high market. See how to do it with lifetime results, solid strategy and the tools used.4. Stock Ideas