That, combined with the demand for income from investors and the fact that companies have so much cash saved up, makes Iyer believe that over the next
few years dividends will once again make up a significant part of the market's total return.
In addition, during the past
few years the dividend has modestly increased, so hopefully the trend will continue and its dividend will grow.
Not exact matches
Apple's long - term debt has grown to almost $ 100 billion over the past
few years partly because it needs a source of funds to buy back stock and pay
dividends.
In just the past
few years the phenomenon has occurred with
dividend stocks, REITs, and utilities shares.
Dividend investors haven't necessarily had the easiest time finding good deals over the past
few years.
As with previous months, I am directly reinvesting all my
dividends until my annual
dividend income falls between $ 2 - 3,000 per
year in a particular account, allowing me to reinvest more selectively a
few times per
year.
When I first started I found out that you can create a
few different lists by using different
dividend dates (ex, record, payable, etc) and a
few more depending on fiscal or calendar
years.
Their recent
dividend growth has been amazing and I hope the extra money from the tax reforms will boost the
dividend increases the next
few years.
Dividend stocks have been getting a lot of play in the news the past
few years, which I think is a big reason so many people are focusing on them.
Out of the
few multi-bagger return stocks I've had over the past 16
years, none of them have been
dividend stocks.
I hope that I will see first profits from the shares in 10 - 15
years from now and maybe a
few dividends.
I very well remember a
few years back, when my passive income was not much, however,
dividend growth with steady investing, I'm in such a position and I'm sure you will see it before you know it.
I read that Apple's CEO has said he is not a fan of one - time payments, but they have increased their
dividend every
year for the last
few years, so I am expecting another increase this
year.
With investing in perpetual
dividend raisers you can become rich or at least wealthy in a
few years if you constantly invest a small amount every month or start with a bigger sum and simply reinvest the
dividends.
Earning a
few thounds a
year in
dividend at the start is a great headstart.
If anything, a slight acceleration of
dividend growth moving forward (relative to where it's been at over the last
few years) seems very plausible.
Even if their share price doesn't go up over the next
few years, which I believe it will by quite a bit, then we are still covered by the near 7 %
dividend that they are going to keep growing atleast 7 % a
year for the next 3
years.
As such,
dividend growth in the next
few years certainly won't match that last
few, but I'm very content with that given the exceedingly high current yield, my high confidence in Textainer to ride the storm through to better times, and ultra-safe P / E and reasonable payout ratio.
Admittedly, during the aggressive quantitative easing measures by the Fed over the past
few years, high yielding
dividend stocks have done quite well.
Blue - chip stocks like Exxon Mobil (XOM), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), DuPont (DD), General Electric (GE), or AT&T (T) may not double or triple in growth over the next
few years, but they are big enough and established enough to provide steady
dividends while weathering down markets.
Another downside is that there are
fewer companies with a long streak of consecutive
dividend increasing
years.
If a company has started to pay
dividends only a
few years ago, this will not stop me from buying it.
Share Count Trend I like declining share counts, because the annual
dividend pool is spread across
fewer shares each
year.
As Dover is part of the
few dividend kings who has underperformed the stock market over the past 10
years, it may be a good time to select this company.
Few people know of the many water related stocks that have very robust
dividend histories and operate in a segment that will be getting a lot more attention in the
years to come.
Factor in that a good bit of
dividend income will be from «free and clear» accounts and side hustle income, and we will have more than enough coverage for the first
few years.
-- Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR), now the largest rural telecom company in the U.S., has long been a favorite of mine, although it tested my devotion a
few years ago when it cut its
dividend twice in six months, from $ 1.00 a
year to 40 cents.
But companies rarely have a flexible approach to capital allocation like this (they usually have a set
dividend that they pay out each
year, often steadily raising it by a
few pennies each
year, and then they buy back shares without much mention of value).
One only has to look over the past
few years to see the removal of well - known names from the
Dividend Aristocrat list (including General Electric and Pfizer) to understand that backward - looking analysis is only part of the story.
Unfortunately, the company has drastically reduced its
dividend growth rate in the last
few years.
Among the issues raised were the $ 2 trillion valuation Saudi Arabia wants for the world's largest oil producer, the scale of
dividends Aramco's prepared to pay and the impact of the shale boom on oil prices over the next
few years.
Hopefully this experience and dominating defensive culture will pay
dividends the next
few years.
Higher
dividends are likely to follow in a
few years.
This does require a
few weeks of work at the beginning of the
year, but it pays huge
dividends for the rest of the
year because students require less redirecting and are much more productive.
True, this would have had to be a long - term strategy, since macadamia trees require time to grow; but it would also have reaped
dividends within a
few years.
But actually, a
few insurance companies have paid a
dividend every
year since they started offering this product — in some cases over 100
years ago.
It possesses significant retained earnings to invest for the future, repurchase stock, and boost the
dividend payout ratio if oil stays low for a
few years.
I like declining share counts, because the annual
dividend pool is spread across
fewer shares each
year.
Dividend equities have become the in - vogue investment over the last
few years as a result of historically low bond rates.
I use
dividends to buy more stock for a
few years.
Additionally, some insurance companies will also pay a
dividend if
fewer life insurance policies are paid out in a given
year.
Richard Ramsden, who heads Goldman's financials group in global investment research, says: «Banks can grow their
dividends by roughly 20 % to 25 % per
year over the next
few years, given that both payout ratios and earnings will be growing for the banking system.»
The payout ratio, at 56.9 %, is higher than it was a
few years ago, but there's still plenty of room for continued
dividend growth.
I have been on the sidelines watching WMT for a
few years now, waiting for the
dividend yield to surpass 3 %.
It's a
few years old but Reinvesting
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Dividends: A 50 -
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dividendsdividends.
As shown in the following table (from their website), their typical pattern has been to deliver slow annual
dividend growth with an occasional jump upwards every
few years.
If there are
fewer than 40 stocks with at least seven consecutive
years of
dividend growth, or if sector or country caps are breached, the index will include companies with shorter
dividend growth histories.
With investing in perpetual
dividend raisers you can become rich or at least wealthy in a
few years if you constantly invest a small amount every month or start with a bigger sum and simply reinvest the
dividends.
The result, I believe, will be a prolonged price slump for
dividend - paying stocks, which, until recently, had come through the past
few years in pretty good shape.
Its yield is good at 3.4 %, but its
dividend growth rate over the past
few years has been in the 2 % -3 % range per
year.