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The Dividend Investor's Three Deadly Sins

The Dividend Investor's Three Deadly Sins

And Why 'Fixing' Them Is Still a Trap

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Jun 20, 2025
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I remember a young analyst at my old firm. Bright kid, top of his class. He spent six months building a multi-factor model to identify the "safest, highest-growth dividend stocks." He was so proud. He presented it to a room of senior partners.

After he finished, I walked to the whiteboard and drew a single, large zero.

"That," I said, "is the ultimate value of your work. You've just invented the world's most complicated hamster wheel. It feels like you're moving, but you'll die in the exact same place."

He didn't last the year. He was trying to solve the wrong problem.

The financial gurus and online blogs are now admitting that basic dividend investing is flawed. So they've created a new gospel, a "smarter" way to play. They tell you to avoid the "sins" of dividend investing.

What they don't tell you is that these "sins" aren't bugs. They are features of the system, designed to distract you while the real money is made elsewhere.

Let me show you why even the "smart" dividend investor is playing a fool's game.

Sin #1: Chasing High Yield (The Sucker's Bait)

The first thing the "smarter" crowd tells you is to avoid chasing high yields. They warn you that a 12% yield is a "dividend trap," a sign of a dying company about to slash its payout.

They are telling you the obvious, and presenting it as wisdom.

Of course it's a trap. It's the most primitive bait in the book. They dangle an unsustainable yield in front of you like a piece of rotten meat, knowing your desperation for "income" will make you bite. The stock collapses, the dividend vanishes, and your capital is gone. They buy the distressed assets for pennies on the dollar.

Avoiding this trap doesn't make you smart. It just means you didn't fall for the most obvious con on the street.

You haven't won the game; you've merely survived the first round designed to eliminate the most gullible.

The real players aren't "avoiding" high-yield traps. We're not even looking at yield. We are on a completely different field, playing a different sport.

Sin #2: Ignoring Dividend Growth (The Illusion of Progress)

So you've learned not to chase yield. The gurus now knight you and share the second "secret": focus on dividend growth.

Find a solid company like a Coca-Cola or a Procter & Gamble that raises its dividend by 5-8% per year. They tell you this is the path to "compounding wealth."

This is the most insidious lie of all.


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