The Best Dividend Stocks To Buy In April

Due to reader requests, I've decided to break up my weekly "Best Dividend Stocks To Buy This Week" series into two parts.
One will be the weekly watchlist article (with the best ideas for new money at any given time). The other will be the update on the Deep Value Dividend Growth Portfolio (which is beating the market by 5% after 15 weeks).
To also make those more digestible, I'm breaking out the intro for the weekly series into a revised introduction and reference article on the 3 rules for using margin safely and profitably (which will no longer be included in those future articles).
I'm also tracking updates to my new Bunker Dividend Growth Portfolio (100% undervalued Dividend Aristocrats and kings) anytime there is a change to that portfolio.
Recently, I explained how I recession-proofed my retirement portfolio (as part of my quarterly retirement portfolio update).
Why Valuation Matters

Even the best companies can make terrible investments if you overpay. A Yale study looking at market returns from 1881 to 2016 found that starting P/E ratio had a significant effect on total returns out to 30 years. In other words, buy-and-hold investors can't just blindly buy great companies at any price but need to remember Buffett's famous quote "It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price."
The corollary to that quote is what I call "the Buffett rule," which is to never pay more than fair value for even... Read more