Sentences with phrase «averaging dividend increases»

Let's assume you have a diversified portfolio yielding 3,5 %, some good old blue chips grow their dividend slowly, some newer companies keep raising their dividend higher and higher like their life depends on it, averaging dividend increases of let's say 7 % per year.

Excluding Apple and Dell, because they paid their first dividends in 2012, the average dividend increase for our holdings was 17 %.

Because of compounding, the annual increase in income from the portfolio actually exceeds the average dividend increase of the stocks in the portfolio.

A 5 % average dividend increase?

South Jersey Industries has stated that one of the corporate goals is to increase its earnings per share by 6 — 7 % annually, which will support desired average dividend increases of 6 — 7 % a year.

Not exact matches

It has a 5.54 % yield — it increased its dividend by 6.9 % last quarter — and while more purchases like this one could impede future dividend increases, writes Plessis, you're still getting an above average payout.

Bellwether's investment philosophy is simple; companies with growing profitability and a history of increasing the dividend paid to shareholders inevitably produce above average returns with lower volatility.

Given this, we expect the rate of dividend growth to moderate beyond this year, with increases likely tracking closely to earnings growth, which figures to average 8 % -10 % annually between 2018 and 2020.

As you can see in the chart above, December's purchases resulted in a total increase of $ 8.27 to my forward 12 - month dividends and carried an overall average yield on cost of 2.18 %.

It's a tiered approach, so as the average realized gold price increases, the fixed dollar dividend amount also increases.

There's one thing Georgetti did get right: Canadian companies have, on average, increased their dividend payments to shareholders since the recession.

In fact, it turns out that ABC has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years, and by an average of 4 %.

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Likewise, there was a four - year period between 2005 and 2009 when owners of The Hershey Company saw their investment decline on paper by more than 50 percent even though chocolate sales were increasing, on average, and dividends were growing.

The first screen looks for companies with above - average dividend yields that have also maintained or increased their dividends over the past five years.

My problem is that when i look for stocks i set very strict parameter rules like: — minimum dividend growth rate of 7 - 10 % in last years 10, 5 years average — historical stocks that increased dividend at least for the last 15 years or paid historically (like BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA)-- very low debt — low payout ratio — historically (long term) stock price has been increasing etc...

While the hurdle for index inclusion is 20 straight years of increasing dividends, the index average is 35.9 years.

JNJ is a terrific dividend growth stock, with annual dividend increases that have stretched for 52 years, averaging about 7 % per year for the past 5 years.

The latter portfolio growth concern translates into a very boring but predictable REIT that increases its dividend payout on average 2 % a year.

The frequency of monthly dividend income that exceeds $ 600 should start increasing in frequency, especially as the projected average monthly dividend income grows closer to $ 600 / month.

The average most - recent increase for all Dividend Champions stands at 8.3 %.

I have read that re-invested dividends lower your taxes by increasing your average cost of the security so that when you sell your security, the difference between the sales price minus the book value (which includes re-invested dividends), becomes less compared to if you didn't re-invest your dividends.

While the average most - recent increase for all CCC companies was 9.8 %, many of those are stocks with much lower yields and much shorter streaks of dividend increases.

My assumption is that if the most recent dividend increase is greater than the 5 - year average then the company may be ramping up their dividend payments.

Over the past 5 years Corning's dividend growth has been excellent, increasing by an average of 14.9 % per year.

• At 1.7 % (including the impact of the most recent 11 % dividend increase on April 27), AAPL's yield is below average for the best dividend growth stocks, and well below the average yield of all 690 Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers (CCC), which stands adividend increase on April 27), AAPL's yield is below average for the best dividend growth stocks, and well below the average yield of all 690 Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers (CCC), which stands adividend growth stocks, and well below the average yield of all 690 Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers (CCC), which stands aDividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers (CCC), which stands at 2.8 %.

If I take the quarterly moving average since month to month can be volatile, the trend is a nice upward increase in my monthly dividends.

Not only does Target have 46 consecutive years of dividend increases under its belt, but the company has increased its payout by an average of 19.8 % a year for the past 10 years.

The remaining stocks are then assigned a rank based on their yield (the higher the yield the higher the rank), payout ratio (the lower the payout ratio the higher the rank), 3 year dividend growth rate, and 5/10 year Dividend Acceleration / Deceleration (5 - year average increase divided by 10 - year average individend growth rate, and 5/10 year Dividend Acceleration / Deceleration (5 - year average increase divided by 10 - year average inDividend Acceleration / Deceleration (5 - year average increase divided by 10 - year average increase).

These companies have increased their dividend for at least 15 years and have a lower than average price to earnings (PE) ratio, a higher operating margin, a low price to book, a reasonable dividend yield and payout ratio.

Instead of dividend income, I have a goal of receiving on average 9 % dividend increases.

The company's strengths really begin with management's focus on generating consistent annual funds from operations (FFO) per share growth, increasing the dividend annually, and assuming below average balance sheet and portfolio risk.

The dividend increased 13.5 % each year annually on average.

There can be two reasons for an above - average yield: the price is down or the dividend has increased.

For the past few years, Royal Bank has been increasing dividends at an average rate of 7.3 % per year.

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.

For the past few years, Telus has been increasing dividends at an average rate of 9.9 % per year.

It's not a big increase, but it certainly moves me closer to my projected average monthly dividend income's next major milestone: $ 700.00 / month.

Essentially, the problem is that the UK market increases, on average, 10.9 % (including dividends) each year.

As I mentioned before, this is well below the average yield of the portfolio, but offers greater long - term growth and greater increases to my dividend income.

Its dividend yield is above the peer average over the past ten years and increase from 2.8 % in 2012 to 3 % currently.

Some analysts estimate FCF should expand at an average of 10 % annually over the next five years, increasing Microsoft's ability to repurchase shares and pay dividends.

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.

While the average dividend yield dropped 162 basis points between the two periods, average earnings growth increased 222 basis points.

For comparison, the average 5 - year DGR for all Dividend Champions (companies with more than 25 straight years of increases) is 7 % per year.

They reported an average increase of dividend income of 78 per cent in 2009 - 2010; an average decline of 73 per cent in 2010 - 2011.

AGNC pays $ 2.75 annual dividend yield: 11.80 % Its projected 10YOC is 11.80 %, payout ratio 129 % (note, this is a REIT, the ratio will be at or higher than 100 %) 5 yr average growth: -6.88 % paid dividend since: 2008 # of years of consecutive dividend increases: 0 years

GG pays $ 0.60 annual dividend yield: 2.40 % Its projected 10YOC is 4.01 %, payout ratio 31 % 5 yr average growth: 30.18 % paid dividend since: 2001 # of years of consecutive dividend increases: 4 years

MCD pays $ 3.40 annual dividend yield: 3.60 % Its projected 10YOC is 6.64 %, payout ratio 59 % 5 yr average growth: 10.17 % paid dividend since: 1976 # of years of consecutive dividend increases: 37 years

OHI pays $ 2.04 annual dividend yield: 5.90 % Its projected 10YOC is 14.76 %, payout ratio 256 % 5 yr average growth: 10.58 % paid dividend since: 1992 # of years of consecutive dividend increases: 10 years