The second source of
dividend safety ratings that I use is Simply Safe Dividends.
Companies that earn high
Dividend Safety Ratings are unlikely to decrease their dividends or distributions in the near future.
The payout ratios are fine, which gets reflected in GWW's excellent
dividend safety ratings from Simply Safe Dividends and Safety Net Pro.
The payout ratios are fine, which gets reflected in GWW's excellent
dividend safety ratings from Simply Safe Dividends and Safety Net Pro.
The Dividend Safety Rating assesses the security of an investment's payout.
Each investment in our income universe receives two ratings:
a Dividend Safety Rating and a Dividend Growth Rating.
Not exact matches
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs;
safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay
dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange
rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
Simply Safe
Dividends gives ALL of the criteria items I need in just one place in both numerical as well as graphical format for each stock:
dividend yield, P / E ratio, Dividend Safety & Growth scores, EPS & FCF payout ratios, ex-dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, a
dividend yield, P / E ratio,
Dividend Safety & Growth scores, EPS & FCF payout ratios, ex-dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, a
Dividend Safety & Growth scores, EPS & FCF payout ratios, ex-
dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, a
dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year
dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, a
dividend growth
rates,
dividend payout history, return on equity, a
dividend payout history, return on equity, and more.
• Stellar
dividend resume: Decent yield at 2.9 %; excellent
dividend growth
rate of 20 % over the past 5 years; upcoming increase of 14 % in December; strong
dividend safety, protected by very good cash flow; and 44 - year streak of increasing
dividends.
Second, we're looking for companies that register an «EXCELLENT» or «GOOD»
rating on our scale for both
safety and future potential
dividend growth.
• Excellent
dividend resume: Decent yield at 2.8 %; strong
dividend growth
rate; 15 % increase this year; and strong
dividend safety, protected by very good cash flow.
I use two services to
rate dividend safety.
Interesting that
dividend growth
rate and not valuation,
safety or understanding the business was the top criteria.
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Dividend safety is also boosted by the company's strong occupancy
rates, which even held up during the last recession.
My investing goal is to build a diverse passive income stream, from a collection of
dividend stocks, MLPs, REITs, and bonds, that surpasses my annual expenses with a margin of
safety and that grows at a faster
rate than inflation.
One of the most important components of Simply Safe
Dividends is our
Dividend Safety Score, a metric that rates the safety of a company's dividend payment by scrubbing through its most important financial
Dividend Safety Score, a metric that rates the safety of a company's dividend payment by scrubbing through its most important financial me
Safety Score, a metric that
rates the
safety of a company's dividend payment by scrubbing through its most important financial me
safety of a company's
dividend payment by scrubbing through its most important financial
dividend payment by scrubbing through its most important financial metrics.
DIV STRK is consecutive years of
dividend increases; DIV YLD is yield using the most recently announced
dividend; 5 YR YLD is average
dividend yield over the past 5 years; REC DG is most recent year - over-year
dividend growth; 5 YR DG is average annual
dividend growth over the past 5 years; PRICE was at market close Friday, March 2; FAIR VAL is Morningstar's «Fair Value Estimate»; FWD P / E is price / earnings ratio based on projected 2018 earnings; 5 YR P / E is average P / E ratio over the past 5 years; MOAT is Morningstar's
rating of competitive economic advantage; SFT is Value Line's «
Safety» score; CRD is Standard & Poor's credit
rating; MKT CAP is market cap in billions of dollars.
• Stellar
dividend resume: Decent yield at 2.9 %; excellent
dividend growth
rate of 20 % over the past 5 years; upcoming increase of 14 % in December; strong
dividend safety, protected by very good cash flow; and 44 - year streak of increasing
dividends.
That long - term
dividend growth
rate is approximately half of what the company is guiding for over the next seven years, so I'm building in a pretty heavy margin of
safety here.
WSM's
dividend appears quite safe, judging from the
ratings from Simply Safe
Dividends and
Safety Net Pro.
• Excellent
dividend resume: OK yield at 2.5 %; 20 - year increase streak; good payout ratios and
dividend growth
rates; and strong
dividend safety, protected by very good cash flow.
In all regions, the duration factor reveals positive exposure to interest
rate risk; investors seeking income and
safety may see stocks with high
dividend yields and low volatility as an attractive alternative to fixed - income securities in a low -
rate environment.
C
ratings still generally provide investors with a reasonable margin of
safety that the
dividend is sustainable, but many signs are beginning to appear that a cut could potentially be on the way, it is important for investors to do further research before owning these names, as a
dividend cut would likely bring a stock price decline.
(NASDAQ: AAPL) AAPL
dividend safety score is 92 earning it a
rating of A.
Theres a good margin of
safety on the stock that pays a very safe and consistent
dividend which has returned a compounded annual
rate of 9.9 % over the last 10 years.
I
rate the falloff as OK rather than flagging it, because of the company's comfortable payout ratios and strond
dividend safety.
• Excellent
dividend resume: Decent yield at 2.8 %; excellent
dividend growth
rate of 29 % per year over the past 3 years; 27 % increase this year; and strong
dividend safety, protected by very good cash flow.
No fewer than 8 categories
rate Good or Excellent, including all payout ratios, all
dividend increase percentages, and the
dividend safety as rated by two services: Safety Net Pro and Simply Safe Divi
safety as
rated by two services:
Safety Net Pro and Simply Safe Divi
Safety Net Pro and Simply Safe
Dividends.
Simply Safe
Dividends gives ALL of the criteria items I need in just one place in both numerical as well as graphical format for each stock:
dividend yield, P / E ratio, Dividend Safety & Growth scores, EPS & FCF payout ratios, ex-dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, a
dividend yield, P / E ratio,
Dividend Safety & Growth scores, EPS & FCF payout ratios, ex-dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, a
Dividend Safety & Growth scores, EPS & FCF payout ratios, ex-
dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, a
dividend dates, pay dates, 1 -, 3 -, 5 -, and 10 - year
dividend growth rates, dividend payout history, return on equity, a
dividend growth
rates,
dividend payout history, return on equity, a
dividend payout history, return on equity, and more.
Notes through August 21, 2005 covered the following topics: Two Posts Worth Reading Right Away, SWR Research Group Archives, Note on Price Discipline, Guidelines Section, More about Monitoring Portfolio
Safety, A Must Read for Mutual Fund Investors, New Current Research Section, A Good Idea for
Dividend - Based Investing, Browse around, Scott Burns Comments, The Rule of 25, Savings
Rate Statistics, A Bond Tip, Be sure to keep up with our Current Research, More on Threshold Distortion: Edited, Note on the P / E10 anomaly.
We had falling interest
rates, real estate values were stabilizing, and investors wanted
safety in
dividend yields.
Because
dividend safety is so important, I also consult the services of two organizations that
rate dividend safety.
Safety Net Pro is a quantitative system for rating the safety of stock divi
Safety Net Pro is a quantitative system for
rating the
safety of stock divi
safety of stock
dividends.
Safety Net Pro is a database and
dividend -
rating service.
By analyzing cash flow, payout ratios,
dividend track records, and other variables,
Safety Net Pro assigns each stock an A-F rating on the safety of its div
Safety Net Pro assigns each stock an A-F
rating on the
safety of its div
safety of its
dividend.
These sheets were added to show the long - term results of investing in them, given the fact that they are still popular and have three unique characteristics: Insured
safety of principal, all interest is taxed annually at ordinary income
rates (unless it's a Roth IRA), and there are never any
dividends, realized or unrealized capital gains or losses to account for.
Brian states that
Dividend Safety Scores are akin to credit
ratings, except they are applied to
dividends rather than bonds.
Using objective data and algorithms that Marc developed, the system
rates the probable
safety of each company's
dividend.
My colleague on Daily Trade Alert, Marc Lichtenfeld, maintains the database and systems that
rate dividend safety.
In terms of
dividend safety, GNL's AFFO payout ratio (based on its 2015 run -
rate) is 87 percent.