If you are looking for capital growth and net
dividend yield perspective, perhaps you can hold on to your current Straits Times Index ETF position in 2017.
Not exact matches
To what extent do you view your investing life as an extension of your personal life?By that I mean to what extent do the personal morals and ethical values of Tim the man govern the investing decisions of Tim the
dividend growth investor?If you ask your typical
dividend growth investor if they would be willing to invest in a lucrative but immoral venture, say selling child pornography or crack cocaine, the answer would probably be «absolutely not» regardless of the
yield, valuation or growth prospects of the underlying venture.And yet, ask that same investor what their thoughts are about Phillip Morris and they would probably describe what a wonderful investment it is and go on about why you should own it.Do your personal morals ever come into play when buying companies, or do you compartmentalize your conscience, wall it off from the part of your brain that thinks about investments, and make your investing decisions based on the financial prospects of the company?The reason why I'm asking is that I keep identifying stocks of companies that I love from an investing
perspective but despise on a human level.I can not in good conscience own any piece of Phillip Morris knowing the impact that smoking related illness has on the families of smokers.You might say that the smoker made his choice to smoke so you don't mind taking his money, but his children never made that choice and they are the ones who will suffer when he dies 20 years too soon.
Like the
dividend yield factor, this is another counter intuitive metric, where we typically like to shop for stocks in the oversold bin, but from a
dividend safety
perspective, it is a potential warning sign.
This degree of concentration is also apparent from a sector
perspective, with a fifth of the
yield of the global MSCI High Dividend Yield Index coming from financials a
yield of the global MSCI High
Dividend Yield Index coming from financials a
Yield Index coming from financials alone.
This
perspective will help ground our minds in what a reasonable range of sector
dividend yields are for each sector, rather than looking only at the entire index.
For
perspective, the $ 48.27 increase in annual expected
dividend income that came about completely organically, via
dividend increases, is the same as investing $ 1,379 in fresh capital at a 3.5 %
yield (the approximate
yield of the portfolio as a whole)-- except I didn't invest a dime to lay claim to that extra passive income.
From the most basic
perspective, if an organization pays a $ 1
dividend and is trading at $ 10 per share, the
dividend yield would be 10 %.
Don't higher
dividends usually drive stock prices higher as people with the short - term
perspective of investing for
yield pile into them?
Analyst Luke Burgess gives investors a current
perspective of gold
dividend stocks and reveals the top three highest -
yield gold
dividend stocks on the market today.
To add some
perspective on this month's
dividend increases, the $ 97.06 in my expected annual
dividend income that came about totally organically, via those
dividend raises, was the equivalent of investing $ 2,773 in fresh capital at a 3.5 %
yield (approximately my portfolio's average
yield).
Global investors can use things like CAPE and
dividend yields to find good countries to invest in (from a value
perspective).