I recently started up a small account with Sharebuilder that I'm using to purchase Dividend
Aristocrat stocks.
Investing in dividend
aristocrat stocks reduces downside risk by forcing investors to seek stable businesses that return money to shareholders.
Two of Warren Buffett's four Dividend
Aristocrat stocks will be analyzed using the 5 Buy Rules from the 8 Rules of Dividend Investing.
Dividend
Aristocrat stocks have a history of increasing dividends at least 25 consecutive years and are typically viewed as the best - of - breed dividend growth stocks.
While a basket of dividend
aristocrat stocks may not bring you the highest yield, it does bring high quality businesses that tend to be safe investments.
I have an interest in dividend investing but haven't done anything much except start a small portfolio of 5 Dividend
Aristocrat stocks a few years back.
The table that follows below is a quick ranking system to determine what are the best and most undervalued Dividend
Aristocrat stocks to help investors start their investment research process.
You might also consider Dividend
Aristocrat stocks too, as a I touched on in my last article about Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM).
With so many stocks currently currently near their 52 - week highs, it's not easy to find a bargain among the Dividend
Aristocrat stocks.
There are currently 26 dividend
aristocrat stocks yielding more than 10 year treasuries which closed Thursday at 2.58 %.
In addition to dividend increases, a Dividend
Aristocrat stock must be in the S&P 500 and meet certain minimum size and liquidity requirements as well.
Not exact matches
He suggests buying
stocks that are likely to grow earnings faster and improve their balance sheets — such as CSL,
Aristocrat Leisure and Ramsay Health Care — and short those likely to disappoint on the earnings front that will weaken their balance sheets, pointing to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Downer EDI and Ausnet.
In fact, GD
stock was added to the list of «dividend
aristocrats» last year.
Both are household names, global leaders in their industry, and popular
stocks among income investors thanks to their Dividend
Aristocrat status.
The biggest challenge with the Dividend
Aristocrats list is that each
stock must be a member of the S&P 500 Index, cutting out many other high quality dividend growth
stocks.
Over 150 dividend
stocks have increased their dividend for at least 20 consecutive years, significantly more than the 51 Dividend
Aristocrats.
The S&P Dividend
Aristocrats Index currently contains 51
stocks with each equally - weighted.
To sum up, the consistency of the Dividend
Aristocrats means that these
stocks are likely to generate more income over time even if you contribute no additional funds to your investment portfolio — which is Do Nothing investing at its finest.
For my ROTH I'm considering moving to a DGI strategy, reinvesting all dividends until retirement with 8 - 10 «core»
stocks from different sectors - OR - 80 % in NOBL Div
Aristocrat reinvesting all dividends and 20 % in GLD etf.
(This is why I have started investing heavily in dividend paying
stocks — dividend
aristocrats who pay set amounts consistently, regardless of their
stock price.)
I think you and I are the same in terms of looking at the Dividend
Aristocrats list in order to search for
stocks.
While scouring the Dividend
Aristocrats list, it's important to find
stocks that hail from various sectors and industries.
Two very interesting strategies to start with if you're just getting into dividend
stocks are the Dogs of the Dow and the Dividend
Aristocrats.
Some of the affected
stocks include ANZ Bank, AGL, Brambles, AMP and
Aristocrat.
The nearest dealership is
Aristocrat Motors, approximately 9.26 miles away with 218 used 2016 Cayman's in
stock.
There are currently 3 insurance
stocks that are Dividend
Aristocrats.
An index is a theoretical composition of
stocks that make up a certain group, in this case Dividend
Aristocrats.
The NOBL ETF has a minimal expense ratio of 0.35 %, which is consistent with other similar active ETF's, but likely much cheaper than purchasing this basket of
stocks on your own, after all buying and maintaining a portfolio of 50 Dividend
Aristocrats is not realistic for most investors.
If I had invested in more safer
stocks (such as the famed Dividend
Aristocrats), then I would have lower yields and it would have taken more time and / or capital to attain the kind of monthly dividend income I now have.
The S&P High Yield Dividend
Aristocrats ® is designed to track a basket of
stocks from the S&P Composite 1500 ® that have consistently increased their dividends every year for at least 20 years.
For income investors, who like to be paid to own a
stock by receiving dividends, ExxonMobil is a member of an exclusive club known as the «Dividend
Aristocrats.»
10 % — Cash 10 % — ZRE BMO Equal Weight REITs 20 % — VSB Vanguard Canadian Short - Term Bond 20 % — CDZ iShares S&P / TSX Canadian Dividend
Aristocrats 20 % — HXT Horizons S&P / TSX 60 10 % — VTI Vanguard Total
Stock Market 10 % — VXUS Vanguard Total International
Stock
The fund offers investors a spectacular dividend yield of 3.26 % and better diversification among the 60
stocks in the S&P High Yield Dividend
Aristocrats Index.
The Dividend
Aristocrats are a great place to start looking for sturdy
stocks that provide decent, consistently growing payouts.
When it comes to high - quality dividend growth
stocks, there are few companies that shine as much as the Dividend
Aristocrats.
The dividend
aristocrats list is a great source to begin further research into high quality investments, or you may prefer to buy all of these
stocks in a basket.
The
stocks on the dividend
aristocrats list can be found within one of two ETFs that trade around the same criteria as we have listed above, you can read more about these:
If
stock picking isn't for you then consider buying a low volatility ETF, such as the iShares S&P / TSX Dividend
Aristocrats Index Fund, which has a beta of about 0.6.
As shown in Exhibit 1, not every dividend - paying
stock in the S&P 500 can become a dividend
aristocrat.
However, most investors refer to companies that have a long history of paying out dividends and increasing those dividends over time as «dividend
stocks» — Dividend
aristocrats is another term used for these companies.
Since the early 1970s, S&P Dow Jones Indices has been identifying
stocks with a long history of consistent dividend increases, which we call «dividend
aristocrats.»
We really don't put out blanket recommendations on individual
stocks for everyone, though the Dividend
Aristocrats list is a great place to start looking.
Dividend
Aristocrats are
stocks that have increased their dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years.
I started with a special group of
stocks called the «Dividend
Aristocrats».
Before we jump right into the dividend
aristocrats, let's first understand what it is you as a dividend investor like about dividend
stocks, what is it you want?
First, if you want to buy individual
stocks, then the recently published S&P 500 Dividend
Aristocrats (PDF file) is a source to get you started.
The
stocks listed below are considered core holdings of our portfolio and offer an average yield of 3.5 %, well above that of the average dividend
aristocrat at only 2.5 %.
The full list of 52 dividend
aristocrats is shown in the following, where I also added each
stock's dividend yield and current price (as of 01/13/09).
Our dividend
aristocrats list has done a lot of the heavy lifting, but this book can still help you think about ways to pick individual
stocks.
As a dividend investor, you should check out our Dividend
Aristocrats List, which highlights 50 dividend
stocks that check each box, its a good place to start finding great
stocks that you can hold for decades.