Nominal dividend income continued to grow, just not as fast as inflation.
Not exact matches
«If net
income continued growing at this more modest pace, in lockstep with
nominal GDP, corporations would not be able to continue growing
dividends at current rates while keeping payout ratios constant.»
The formula for the real
income of an investment at year N is: Inflation adjusted
dividend income = (initial
dividend amount) * -LCB-[1 + (
nominal dividend growth rate)-RSB- ^ N -RCB- / -LCB-[1 + (inflation rate)-RSB- ^ N -RCB- Typically, you would use a
nominal dividend growth rate of 5.5 % per year in the absence of other information and 3 % per year inflation.
If so, the formula becomes: Inflation adjusted
dividend income = (initial
dividend amount) * (1.055 ^ N) / (1.03 ^ N) With preferred stock and / or bond
income, use a
nominal dividend growth rate of 0 %.
The Morningstar
Income &
Dividend Investing discussion board recently included a listing of 60 years of FKINX total (
nominal) return data.
Your
income stream will come within about 1 % of the initial
dividend yield plus the annualized,
nominal growth rate of the
dividend minus the inflation rate.
They decompose the total returns into the three subclasses of return sources: changing valuation,
dividend income, and
nominal dividend growth.
But while
dividend income has accounted for nearly 50 percent of the long - term
nominal annual return on stocks and 75 percent of the real annual return, even these figures dramatically understate the cumulative role played by
dividends.
Conceptually, if a corporation can support a long term return of 10 % (
nominal), it carries less risk to a retiree if the return is strictly from
dividends alone than an alternative that requires capital appreciation as well as
dividend income to deliver the same return.