In one of my latest blogposts, I wrote about the importance of putting rock solid defensive companies such as consumer staples at the core of the investment portfolio in order to build an ever growing passive income
machine as a dividend growth investor.
It's funny, people point to the recent Great Recession and some bank stocks cutting dividends as a reason that DGI somehow doesn't work, yet you would have been hard pressed to see a 20 % pay
cut as a dividend growth investor, even at the height of it all — unless you were primarily invested in bank stocks and didn't give a damn about diversification.
I have startet my
journey as a dividend growth investor in 2009 and been shying away from buying stocks of automobile producers for several years due to its high capital intensity and very cyclical character.
In one of my latest blogposts, I wrote about the importance of putting rock solid defensive companies such as consumer staples at the core of the investment portfolio in order to build an ever growing passive income
machine as a dividend growth investor.
Over the long term, these fluctuations will smooth out and of
course as an dividend growth investor in the accumulation phase, a strong Swiss franc towards other currencies is a real blessing (see also The day when my portfolio dropped by 15 %).
As a dividend growth investor, I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting income investment opportunities.
However,
as a dividend growth investor, I find little interest in investing my money in such hectic dividend payer.
As a dividend growth investor, I would rather see companies like a big money making machine and assess its value as such.
As a dividend growth investor, you can look at several metrics to evaluate the performance of a stock over the last months, years or even decades.
As a dividend growth investor, I rather see companies like big money making machine and assess their value as such.
As a dividend growth investor, I would rather see companies as big money making machines and assess their value as such.
As a dividend growth investor, you can utilize a bunch of metrics to help you pick solid and growing companies like payout ratio, dividend yield or dividend growth.
As a dividend growth investor, the revenues and earnings are crucial for me as they will give me a good indication if the company will be able to increase their payouts or not.
As a dividend growth investor, you must already know that cash flow is king.
When I just started out
as a dividend growth investor, this was one of my first purchases since it has a long track record of increasing dividends, a nice dividend yield, and it's a good defensive stock to own.
As dividend growth investors, when we first start we take our measly dividend payments and reinvest them with the hopes one day our growth will move at an exponential rate.
Go back to our basic business model:
As a dividend growth investor, your goal is to collect, over time, stocks that pay a rising stream of dividends.
As a Dividend Growth investor, I don't buy bitcoin.
As a dividend growth investor, I like to keep my portfolio's dividend yield above 4 % which happens to be the income level we would need to live in retirement.
As a dividend growth investor, I place the greatest emphasis on how effectively my invested dollars are providing, and growing, regular dividend payments.
And most important for
me as a dividend growth Investor: the company more than quintupled its payouts to shareholders.
Since 2009 I consider
myself as a dividend growth investor, consistently trying to focus on the fundamentals of businesses instead of short term share price movements.
As a dividend growth investor, you can utilize a bunch of metrics to help you pick solid and growing companies like payout ratio, dividend yield or dividend growth.
As a dividend growth investor myself, I have made apple by far my largest holding over the last few years.
As a dividend growth investor, the most important figure I track on an annual basis is whether my overall level of passive income has risen.