Sentences with phrase «actual average dividend»

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It seems these companies are able to return cash to shareholders (via dividend raises) on average in the 8 - 12 % range without share buybacks and in 11 - 15 % range with (total shareholder yield) outside of any additional increase in the actual price per share.

This means dividends are low priority right now — the actual average sector yield's more like 0.7 %, if I count the majority of companies with a zero dividend.

It is important to recognize, though, that receiving wildly varying returns that average 8.38 percent per year is not the same as receiving level returns of 8.38 percent each year — and if you had a bank account that was credited with actual S&P 500 Index returns from 1920 to 2013 (excluding dividends), your average compound return would only be 6.45 percent.