MaxDividends

Substack by MaxDividends · launched Jul 9, 2024

The #1 Dividend Investing Community: Top Dividend Stocks & ETFs • Buy/Hold/Sell Ratings • Dividend Safety Scores • Income Strategies • Dividend Platform • Premium Research.

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What they write about

Dividend growth investing built around weekly screens and ready-made portfolio builds at set contribution levels. Regular features include a weekly Dividend Radar list using the CCC method, European dividend lists, a running personal portfolio aimed at a monthly income target, and a Sunday personal column.

  • dividend investing
  • dividend growth
  • portfolio building
  • passive income
  • retirement income
  • stock screens

Recent examples: 1.31% Dividend Yield, 68 Years of Dividend Hikes – An Automation Giant Turning Factory Upgrades Into Dividend Cash · Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 11/04/2026

Written from MaxDividends’s own published post titles and openings in Sep 11, 2026. It describes the subjects the newsletter covers, not its views, and is not investment advice.

Most-mentioned tickers

Symbols named in the headline of a post from the last 30 days, most-covered first. The number is how many of those posts mentioned it.

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Read from 4 post headlines in the last 30 days. A newsletter that names a company only in the body of a post will not appear here, and a mention is not a recommendation — it only means the symbol came up.

Growth history

Subscribers (thousands, nightly)

198K on Sep 10, 2026 → 230K on Oct 21, 2026

Followers (thousands, nightly)

Rank in Substack’s finance leaderboard: #9 today · #9 a week ago · #9 a month ago

Stats worth sharing

Tracked since Sep 10, 2026 — 62 daily snapshots so far. The card below is built from what we track and refreshes nightly.

Percentile
Top 2%

of 525 ranked finance newsletters

Best rank seen
#9

on Nov 10, 2026

Followers added
+36K

since tracking began

Posts
30

last 30 days

Reactions per post
16

average, recent posts

Reactions tracked
1.2K

across 77 posts

Tickers covered
3

in tracked posts

Most-reacted post we have seen: ☕️ Sunday Coffee: Toxic Numbers — 184 reactions on Nov 1, 2026.

MaxDividends — rank, subscribers and growth, tracked by Stock Market Watch
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Recent posts

  • 1.31% Dividend Yield, 68 Years of Dividend Hikes – An Automation Giant Turning Factory Upgrades Into Dividend Cash

    A factory can postpone buying new equipment. It cannot afford to lose control of pressure, temperature, or a production line. This company supplies the instruments, valves, and software that help keep those operations running. Now, new gas facilities, power projects, and more sophisticated manufacturing are bringing it fresh business. Orders are growing faster than sales—the encouraging part. Turning those orders into profitable deliveries is the next test. Emerson Electric (EMR) Business Quality Score: 96 / 99 Quick Tip To keep your portfolio strong, stay on top of the financials for each…

  • Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 11/04/2026

    ⭐ For Premium Partners Only Intro Dividend Radar is a weekly updated list of reliable, dividend-growing companies — built on the timeless CCC method first introduced by David Fish. Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 11/04/2026 The legendary method of dividend discipline returns every Wednesday — powered by MaxDividends. What’s new We’ve added two more data columns to the table: 5-Year Dividend Growth Company Market Cap Category (Mega, Large, Mid, Small)

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  • This Week’s Top Capital Growth Dividend Stocks
  • Growth vs. Value Stocks: Why Buffett Thinks It’s a Silly Debate

    Wall Street has a favorite fight, and it never gets old: the bold against the bargain, the dream against the discount. This year the scoreboard swung so violently that the fight looks different. Yet one investor argued three decades ago that the contest is a mirage built on a false choice. What he saw, and why this year’s market keeps testing it, may change how a portfolio gets built. Growth and Value Aren’t Opposites—They’re Partners Value investors hunt for stocks at a discount, while growth investors chase companies with skyrocketing revenue. Warren Buffett, who retired as CEO of Berkshire…

  • ☕️ Sunday Coffee: Toxic Numbers

    My personal life & business column — a mix of life moments, investing insights, and reflections on long-term wealth building. Every investment is about numbers. But not all numbers are good for you. Some help you make smart decisions. Others mess with your head and quietly destroy your results. Today, I want to talk about toxic numbers — the kind that pull your attention away from what real investing is supposed to be. 🎭 Two Different Worlds Over the past decade, the world of investing has split in two. There’s the investment industry — focused on business, profits, cash flow, and long-term…

  • When Wall Street Panics, Dividend Portfolios Keep Compounding

    On the last trading day of the month, a few of the market’s most celebrated names stumbled, and almost every index paid for it. Yet inside the wreckage, a quieter group of businesses moved the other way, the ones paid to be boring. What happened, and what it says about owning ordinary companies that mail checks, is the story below. The Day Wall Street Flinched The panic arrived on Friday, October 30. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 572.25 points, or 1.09%, to close at 51,770.31, the S&P 500 fell 1.82% to 7,580.07, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.86% to 25,437.00. It was the S&P 500’s…

  • My Dividend Portfolio. Month 28, Week 5 (+Video)
  • 0.55% Dividend Yield, 15 Years of Dividend Hikes – A Global Payments Giant Building More Than a Card Network

    This company is turning payment relationships into a broader services business. Banks and merchants come for transaction processing, then buy tools to fight fraud, understand customers, and improve sales. That strategy is working: services are growing faster than network revenue, helping profits outpace sales. For dividend investors, the opportunity is growing distributions—not a generous starting yield. Mastercard (MA) Business Quality Score: 98 / 99 Quick Tip To keep your portfolio strong, stay on top of the financials for each company you hold. Solid companies mean better returns, so be…

  • Easy-Peasy Week 115: Weekly Portfolio Builds — $300 / $500 / $1,000

    ⭐ For Premium Partners Only Intro In this section, we share ready-made sets of promising dividend growth stocks with strong future dividend potential — built for $300, $500, and $1,000 weekly investment plans. Each set represents a complete portfolio that grows week by week. We also track performance and provide portfolio links so you can monitor past results and real-time updates. Easy-Peasy Secret Formula At MaxDividends, Easy-Peasy isn’t built on opinions or lucky picks. It’s built on a proven income system — the same principles that have created wealth and cash flow for investors for…

  • Why Leverage Makes Even Geniuses Go Broke: Buffett’s Take

    Some mistakes seem reserved for fools, which is what makes this one so unsettling. Twice in a generation, the most credentialed minds in finance, a circle that included Nobel laureates, watched fortunes dissolve in days, and both times the same quiet culprit stood behind the wreckage. It arrives dressed as opportunity. Finding out what it is, and why intelligence cannot stop it, means going back to a summer when a distant default shook the cleverest hedge fund in the world. The Cautionary Tale of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM) In 1998, the board of Long-Term Capital Management (LTCM)…

  • Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 10/28/2026

    ⭐ For Premium Partners Only Intro Dividend Radar is a weekly updated list of reliable, dividend-growing companies — built on the timeless CCC method first introduced by David Fish. Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 10/28/2026 The legendary method of dividend discipline returns every Wednesday — powered by MaxDividends. What’s new We’ve added two more data columns to the table: 5-Year Dividend Growth Company Market Cap Category (Mega, Large, Mid, Small)

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  • 1.98% Dividend Yield, 23 Years of Dividend Hikes – An Analog Chip Giant Finding More Cash for Shareholders

    The chips that manage power and translate signals rarely get top billing, but recovering demand for them can do plenty for a dividend. This manufacturer is selling more into industrial equipment, vehicles, and data centers while spending less on factory construction than a year earlier. That combination matters: rising earnings support dividend increases, but cash left after capital spending actually pays them. The latest quarter showed a substantial improvement in both. Texas Instruments (TXN) Business Quality Score: 98 / 99 Quick Tip To keep your portfolio strong, stay on top of the…

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