11/08/25 – The Best Dividend Reads This Week 📚

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This week, we’ve gathered some of the most compelling dividend stories every investor should know.

Intro

I invest in reliable, high-growth dividend stocks with one simple goal: to live off dividends and build a stable, growing stream of passive income.

A dividend cut might signal trouble, but a dividend increase is often a loud statement of strength and long-term confidence.

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11/08 Update — email me anytime: max@maxdividends.app

Everything’s right on schedule — October dividends have been fully reinvested, and the snowball keeps rolling. I’m moving forward, reaching new milestones in passive income, step by step, in real time.

My portfolio is well-balanced — a mix of strong, reliable dividend companies — and I’m enjoying every chance to add more shares while the market still offers discounts.

Next week, I’ll tell you about a new company I’ve been watching closely and plan to add soon. But for now, we’ve officially crossed the $800/month mark in dividend income — time to lock it in and keep climbing.

December is right around the corner — a new month of reports, raises, and those beautiful little payout notifications that make this journey so rewarding.

Long live dividends! 💪💰

This Week’s Best Reads 💡

Dividend Deep Dives & Investing Gold

This week was noisy, but the message felt simple: tune out the drama and let discipline do the work. We’re opening with a reminder that fads fade while habits compound, then shifting to two steady operators that keep paying through all kinds of weather. There’s a lesson in patience from Omaha for when the pitch isn’t right, and a human story that brings decades of dividends down to the kitchen table.

Pour a cup, get comfortable, and ease into the weekend with stories that go down smooth.

• Discipline Over Drama: MSTY’s Slide Is A Reminder Of What Actually Compounds

• 3.86% Dividend Yield, 14 Years of Dividend Hikes – Payroll, HR, and benefits platform for America’s SMBs

• Buffett’s Cash Mountain Hits $381.7 Billion — and He’s Clearly Waiting for Blood in the Water

• 3.53% Dividend Yield, 57 Years of Dividend Hikes – Investor‑owned water utility platform serving U.S. communities coast to coast​

• Phyllis Stone and the Forty-Year Dividend Miracle

More Exclusive Dividend Ideas

• The November King List: Timeless Dividend Payers, Undervalued Today

• Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 11/05/2025

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Dividend Hike of the Week: Exxon Mobil (XOM)

Dividend Increase: +4%. 42+ consecutive years of dividends.

Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) is a global integrated energy major across upstream, energy products (refining/marketing), chemical products, and specialty products, operating in the Americas, Europe, and Asia—solid leverage to crude cycles with a downstream/chemicals hedge, not flashy but steady.​

For Q3 2025, Exxon Mobil reported revenue of $99.33 billion and net income of $7.50 billion, with diluted EPS of $1.76; year over year, top line rose from $93.06 billion as refining throughput and chemicals improved—margins held up on mix and cost discipline despite volatile commodities. Operating cash flow was $14.80 billion, underscoring healthy conversion from earnings into cash amid stable utilization.​

The company pays an annual dividend of $4.12, yielding 3.52%, with a 42-year increase streak, 5-year dividend growth of +12.00%, and a payout ratio of 58.13%. Separately, Brown & Brown raised its quarterly dividend by 10% to $0.165 per share, extending its run of annual hikes.

Max Dividends: How My Dividend Week Went

This one’s a special week, no doubt. And I’m happy I get to share it with you.
By the time you read this, we’re probably strolling through Rome — and honestly, I couldn’t care less what the market’s doing right now. It’s the weekend, and we’re in the Eternal City. 🇮🇹

Yesterday I turned 40 — a milestone of its own.

It feels like the brightest moments are already behind me… and yet, somehow, all the most interesting ones are still ahead 😂

What truly matters? My family is with me. My wife, my kids — all close. Life is good, and I’m grateful for it. Especially because this trip — every espresso, every museum ticket, every evening walk — is paid for by dividends.

That’s what makes this journey so real. It’s not theory anymore — it’s experience. Dividends are paying for our memories.

And now, back to the portfolio. I made this week’s buys early — on Monday — just so I wouldn’t have to think about markets while we’re away. So if prices look a little different today, that’s why. The plan, though, stays the same.

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If you’re already on this path — congratulations, you’re building real freedom and a legacy. If you haven’t started yet, remember: every month you wait is dividend income you’ll never get back.

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