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- Brian Bollinger was one of my many great mentors over the years who helped me hone my securities analysis technique.- Simply Safe is where I learned a quantitative approach to dividend safety using debt metrics that are industry appropriate based on credit rating agency guidelines. - I've continued to expand the Dividend King safety model to include 15 safety metrics. 1 Payout Ratio vs safe level for the industry2 Debt/EBITDA vs safe level for industry (credit rating agency standards)3 Interest coverage ratio vs safe level for industry (credit rating agency standards)4 Debt/Capital vs safe level for industry (credit rating agency standards)5 S&P credit rating & outlook6 Fitch credit rating & outlook7 Moody's credit rating & outlook8 30-year bankruptcy risk9 Implied credit rating (if not rated, based on average borrowing costs, debt metrics & advanced accounting metrics)10 Dividend Growth Streak (vs Ben Graham 20 years of uninterrupted dividends standard of quality)11 Piotroski F-score (advanced accounting metric measuring short-term bankruptcy risk)12 Altman Z-score (advanced accounting metric measuring long-term bankruptcy risk)13 Beneish M-score (advanced accounting metric measuring accounting fraud risk)14 Dividend Cut Risk In This Recession (based on blue-chip economist consensus)15 Dividend Cut Risk in Normal Recession (based on historical S&P dividend cuts during non-crisis downturns)

- Initial training in investment analysis, specializing in high-yield income in energy, specifically midstream MLPs & corporations.- Tyler Crowe and Matt DiLallo were my chief mentors and taught me about safe debt metric guidelines for midstream corporations and MLPs. - The Motley Fool is where I learned about the importance of always discussing fundamental risk in every company-specific article I write.