The beauty of the dividend growth investing strategy is that you build up your dividends through fresh capital investment as well
dividend increases from the companies you own.
I'm looking forward to some big
dividend increases from some of these companies so the snowball should really take off!
This is because earnings can be converted to dividends at a later date (or because they can allow
dividend increases from an acquiring company).
Most of this has been a result of reinvesting dividends actively and through passive
dividend increases from the companies I own.
My Retirement portfolio dividends increased $ 80.69 over May due to several purchases made over the past quarter and
dividend increases from OHI and O.
Last
dividend increase from 0,59 $ to 0,62 % represented +5 % growth.
If we discount the ETF's, income actually went up $ 0.17 or 0.5 % thanks to
a dividend increase from Omega Healthcare (OHI).
But for perspective on this, the most recent
dividend increase from Starbucks (which was declared in November 2017) came in at 20 %.
However, I've thrown out the Lorillard Inc.
dividend increase from Q1 because the company was acquired by Reynolds American, Inc. (RAI), meaning LO's dividend increase is now meaningless to my finances.
November saw
every dividend increase from its previous value (due to reinvestment) and some little bumps due to some automatic purchases with monthly contributions (OHI).
Dividend investors will likely see
a dividend increase from Travelers in April.
LTC Stats Annual Dividend: $ 2.28 Yield: 4.78 % Years Paying / Increasing: 5 years
Dividend increase from prior year: 5.3 % Payout Ratio: 73.3 % P / E Ratio: 21.1 EPS: $ 2.28
GIS Stats Annual Dividend: $ 1.92 Yield: 3.42 % Years Paying / Increasing: 13 years
Dividend increase from prior year: 8.33 % Payout Ratio: 62.7 % P / E Ratio: 20.83 EPS: $ 2.70
And I missed Medtronic's
dividend increase from last week, so I've included it below.
Last
dividend increase from 0,59 $ to 0,62 % represented +5 % growth.
Not exact matches
Much of corporate America is likely to spend the savings
from the rate cut by
increasing dividends and share buybacks.
Travelers
increased its quarterly
dividend to 77 cents per share
from 72 cents.
This Toronto - based property and casualty insurance company has
increased its
dividend by more than 50 % over the past three years while its stock price has climbed
from $ 35 to $ 62.
«Finally, due to the recent tax reform, we raised Ryder's quarterly cash
dividend to $ 0.52 per share of common stock, an
increase of 13 %
from the amount Ryder had been paying quarterly since July of 2017.»
This tax
increase on these specific
dividends is by far the largest revenue take
from the government, Jacks said.
What he has rushed to do is
increase the company's
dividend, which rose to $ 1.74 per share on an annual basis, up
from the current annual rate of $ 1.68 per share.
While the
dividend gross - up for non-eligible disbursement has been reduced —
from 25 % to18 % — the amount of tax on these disbursements has
increased by approximately 1.6 %, explained Don Carson, a chartered accountant representing the CICA, and a tax partner at Markham, Ont. - based MNP accounting firm.
Royal Dutch Shell (rds - a), France's Total (tot) and Norway's Statoil (sto) reported sharp
increases in cash flow
from operations in the second quarter as profits beat analyst expectations, meaning they can all comfortably pay
dividends and reduce debt.
Proceeds
from the sale of the milk will compound for the owners of the cows, just as they did during the 20th century when the Dow
increased from 66 to 11,497 (and paid loads of
dividends as well).
That, in turn, came after calls
from U.S. activist fund Elliott Management for parent Hyundai Motor Group to cancel treasury shares and
increase dividends.
«We believe the bogey for investors is a 15 percent
increase to Apple's total reported capital return number (shares repurchase plus past
dividends), which would imply a $ 150 billion headline number, up
from $ 130 billion announced last year,» said Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, in a recent note.
The tax cut and excess federal spending may boost some areas of the economy, but thus far, it has not produced anything more than a modest boost in capital spending (most of it
from capital intensive technology companies) but a surge in stock buybacks and
dividend increases, Apple being a case in point.
April 23 (Reuters)- Barrick Gold Corp reported a slightly better than expected
increase in first - quarter adjusted profit on Monday and said it was done selling assets to cut debt and would instead use funds
from any future sales to boost growth or pay
dividends.
Apple also
increased its
dividend 15 percent to $ 3.05 a share and said it will expand its share repurchase program to $ 60 billion
from the $ 10 billion level announced last year.
These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may
increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an
increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results
from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data
from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay
dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified
from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).
-LSB-...]
increasing its payout over the last seven years and is just three years away
from making it to the
Dividend Achievers list.
As the father of value investing, Benjamin Graham, once wrote, «The real money in investing will have to be made — as most of it has been in the past — not out of buying and selling, but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interest and
dividends, and benefiting
from their long - term
increase in value.»
This will be achieved
from putting new capital to work, reinvesting
dividends and
dividend increases.
RGCO's
dividends have
increased in the last 10 years, with DPS
increasing from US$ 0.42 to US$ 0.62.
Additionally, exposure to companies that have the potential to sustainably
increase dividends over time may be an opportunity to target steady growth — as well as income that can help provide some buffer
from volatility.
Spending on commissions by its $ 21 billion Equity
Dividend Fund
increased by 39 percent
from the 2014 to 2016 fiscal years, but the fund's transaction activity more than doubled, meaning that its commission rate overall decreased considerably.
While the «pure» MSCI World High
Dividend Yield Index outperformed its parent MSCI World Index
from November 1998 to August 2015, when we applied screens to the stocks in our study to avoid yield - traps, the active return
increased to an annualized 3.3 percentage points.
For each CEO's tenure, the researchers calculated three metrics: the country - adjusted total shareholder return (including
dividends reinvested), which offsets any
increase in return that's attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market; the industry - adjusted total shareholder return (including
dividends reinvested), which offsets any
increase that results
from rising fortunes in the overall industry; and change in market capitalization (adjusted for
dividends, share issues, and share repurchases), measured in inflation - adjusted U.S. dollars.
That way, when that 8 %
dividend increase comes around, Jason would be working
from a base of 103.73 shares instead of 100 shares.
The important bit
from my point of view is that they also
increased their
dividend, which although this was only by 2 %, it is still an
increase.
Not only did this encourage companies to
increase dividends, it encouraged stock ownership because interest income
from Treasuries and money market funds were still taxed as ordinary income.
They also have a decent track record of
dividend increases — the growth
from $ 0.35 in 2011 to $ 0.47 in 2015 represents a CAGR of 6 %, well outpacing the rate of inflation.
This big YoY
increase is due to the special
dividend I received
from Franklin Resources.
Note that after seven years of paying a static
dividend, the company increased the disbursement from $ 1.52 per year to $ 1.68 in the first quarter of 2012 (the first quarter 2012 dividend increase can be seen in the Quarterly Divide
dividend, the company
increased the disbursement
from $ 1.52 per year to $ 1.68 in the first quarter of 2012 (the first quarter 2012
dividend increase can be seen in the Quarterly Divide
dividend increase can be seen in the Quarterly
DividendDividend box).
This will
increase their
dividend per month
from $ 0.58 to $ 0.60.
This will
increase their
dividend per Quarter
from $ 0.63 to $ 0.73.
This will
increase their
dividend from $ 0.32 to $ 0.335.
The great news is that my
dividend income has
increase modestly over the past three years but is still far
from my goal.
The
increase was largely due to the additions of
dividends from Disney and Kraft Heinz; both stocks were purchased in February.
Aflac also announced a 5.4 %
increase in their quarterly
dividend to $ 0.39 a share and
increased the size of their buyback plan
from $ 1 billion to $ 1.2 billion which I like since it shows management is being smart when it comes to buying back stock on cheap valuations.