Stock Scoring Makes Building a Strong Dividend Portfolio Easy

Stock Scoring Makes Building a Strong Dividend Portfolio Easy

From Safe Dividend Investing by Ian Duncan MacDonald

March 12, 2026 · 21 min · Season 1 · Episode 32

About this episode

This episode discusses stock scoring and its role in building a strong dividend portfolio based on the host's investment book.

Send us Fan Mail October 20, 2021 This podcast covers the final five chapters of my first investment book, "Income and Wealth from Self-Directed investing". In it, we explore how 9 information elements are graded to provide a public company's total stock score. The higher the score, the safer and higher the dividend payments and the more likely the stock will show a capital gain of 9 percent or more in a year. The highest possible score would be 100 and the lowest would ...

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Host: Ian Duncan MacDonald

Topics covered

  • dividend investing
  • stock scoring
  • investment strategies
  • capital gains
  • financial literacy

Keywords

  • dividend portfolio
  • stock score
  • investment book
  • capital gain
  • financial analysis

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Books & works: Income and Wealth from Self-Directed investing

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