This puts it in stark contrast to, say, the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (
$ VIG), which has a low current yield but holds companies with a long history of raising their dividends.
Coca - Cola ($ KO) is the second - largest holding of my favorite ETF, the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (
$ VIG), and Microsoft ($ MSFT) and Philip Morris International ($ PM) will likely be holdings as well once they meet the time requirements.
Even the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSE:
$ VIG), a core long - term holding in my ETF portfolios — barely yields 2 %, and this is a dividend - focused product.
But for long - term growth, you might be better off investing in the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSE:
$ VIG).
To be consistent with Sizemore Capital's focus on dividend growth, we are eliminating our long - term positions in the iShares S&P 500 Index (NYSE: $ IVV) and replacing them with the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (NYSE:
$ VIG).
This is where I would place
$ VIG and $ AMJ, the two ETFs I recommended in late 2012.
Sixty percent of the portfolio is allocated to high - quality American and international dividend - paying stocks via the positions in
$ VIG, $ DLN, and $ PID.
Not exact matches
Following my earlier example, you would go almost completely broke after only four consecutive losses chasing a
$ 50 profit in the real world, with a 10 %
vig:
The college bettor speaks the language of the trade — juice,
vig, teaser, parlay, quarter (
$ 25), dollar (
$ 100), push — and sometimes deals in amounts that would buy sport - utility vehicles.
Following our previous example, you would essentially go broke after only four consecutive losses chasing a
$ 50 profit if we assume the traditional 10 %
vig:
A lazy, paint - by - numbers thriller, Confidence follows professional grifter Jake
Vig (Edward Burns) as he and his team prepare to fleece a mob - backed banker (Robert Forster's Morgan Price) of
$ 5 million - with complications and double - crosses naturally ensuing as the frenetic narrative unfolds.
The King chooses high - roller banker Morgan Price (Forster, Finder's Fee), and along with one of King's men and a
Vig - picked damsel named Lily (Weisz, The Shape of Things), the wheels are set in motion for a
$ 5 million dollar gig.
To wit,
VIG has paid out roughly
$ 1.95 in dividends over the past four quarters — 31 % more than it paid out during the comparable period of time four years ago.
The iShares International Dividend Growth (IGRO,
$ 58.75) ETF subscribes to the same theory as
VIG, but provides international exposure for investors who want geographic diversification, too.
Vanguard Dividend Appreciation (
VIG,
$ 103.96) isn't a particularly powerful yielder.