Sentences with phrase «higher dividend year»

I did a very small amount of research and began to invest some of the money I had in individual stocks, which were mainly blue chips, or well - established companies that paid a higher dividend each year, like Coca - Cola, Johnson & Johnson, and energy companies.

Each one of these stocks has paid higher dividends every year for at least 25 years, each is a high quality business, each has a large moat, and each has proven itself through multiple business cycles, not only maintaining the dividend but even increasing them during recessions.

Williams Companies (WMB) had paid higher dividends each year since 2004, grown its dividend by 38 % per year over the last five years, and earned most of its income from regulated assets generating «safe» fee - based revenue from long - term contracts.

Not exact matches

Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history of never cutting its dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.

Gold miner Northern Star Resources has increased its dividend payout after confirming a 65 per cent jump in full - year profit, on the back of higher gold prices and a reduction in costs.

But if Buffett were to swap his preferred shares for those 700 million shares of common shares, he would be looking at higher dividends of $ 336 million a year.

This year, just two of the 10 dividend companies we list here have yields that low, which should reinforce the notion that there is more to picking dividend stocks than seeking out the company with the highest yield.

His High Dividend Fund has a 10.89 % 10 - year annualized return.

The 10 - Year's move above 3 %, which is believed to be a «psychological» level by many, may be unwelcome competition for dividend paying stocks, especially if it continues to head higher.

Compared to the broad XIC, XEG has a) a price to earnings ratio that is only slightly higher, b) a price to book ratio that is lower, c) a debt to equity ratio that is about half of XIC, d) a dividend yield that is comparable and e) profit margins that grew 30 % this year versus 18 % for XIC.

Two - year treasury now higher than S&P 500 dividend yield.

You want to be prepared for all seasons; to know that regardless of what happens with your employment situation, the government's budget, the Federal Reserve and interest rates, or the stock market, your family will enjoy higher income from dividends, interest, and rents with each passing year.

To me, the process is simple: If you are contemplating the purchase of a company with a high internal growth rate (which I define as expected growth north of 10 % for the next ten year years), and it pays no dividend or a negligible dividend, then stuff the investment in a taxable account provided you have already gotten any possible matching from a company's retirement account.

Given those durations, an investor with 15 - 20 years to invest could literally plow their entire portfolio into stocks and long - term bonds, in expectation of very high long - term returns, with the additional comfort that their financial security did not rely on the direction of the markets, thanks to the ability to reinvest generous coupon payments and dividends.

We assess the value of dividends in various interest rate environments over an 88 - year period and discuss how to avoid typical «yield traps» in the design of high - dividend strategies.

The company with 23 consecutive years of higher dividends.

CIX has a dividend streak of 6 years and their 2015 dividend was higher than 2014, so I've moved them back to the All - Star tab.

Currently, their dividend yields 3.26 %, which is higher than their 5 year average.

I've also included a Google Docs list of all the companies in the list with their streak length, but the excel spreadsheets provided above have a lot more information like the dividend yield, average highest yield for 3, 5 and 10 years, the past 10 years worth of dividends, and lots of other stock information.

My IRAs are primarily in widow and orphan dividend growth stocks, and I keep about one year's worth of expenses in high - yield preferred ETFs as an emergency fund.

They are also a dividend challenger, having paid out higher dividends for 5 straight years.

A value over 1.0 suggests that the dividend growth rate has been increasing as the 5 year rate is higher than the 10 year rate.

You have to pay tax on those dividends every year (bonds that pay interest are taxed even higher).

In the short run, anything's possible for the market, and so making a purchase of Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF right now isn't sure to make you big money in the next month or even the next year.

This year we sold some small caps and high - dividend yield funds in our taxable account.

We sold some small caps at the beginning of the year and some high - dividend yield growth funds during the summer.

Although traditional high dividend payers (think the utilities and telecom sectors) have performed strongly in recent years, they've become quite expensive by most valuation metrics.

• The company's rate of dividend growth each year has been steadily high since the Great Recession ended in 2009.

For example if you bought Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM), a holding in the Dividends Diversify Model Portfolios, during the market peak of 2007 and held though summer of this year, you would have earned about a 7.5 % annual total return including dDividends Diversify Model Portfolios, during the market peak of 2007 and held though summer of this year, you would have earned about a 7.5 % annual total return including dividendsdividends.

And what could be lower dividend growth moving forward (relative to that big 10 - year DGR) is compensated by a relatively high yield of 2.97 %.

2018 could be phenomenal for the stock, but I don't see any reason why this company can't continue pumping out bigger dividends and higher returns for shareholders for many years to come.

This puts the total dividends for the fiscal 2015 year on track to be 15 % higher than fiscal 2014.

The current yield of 1.55 % might not be massive like AT&T's dividend (which is why we diversify, and it's why I'm listing 10 different stocks with different dynamics here), but Walt Disney more than makes up for that via strong dividend growth: the five - year dividend growth rate is 30.1 %, which is one of the higher rates you'll run across.

While buybacks and dividends - as - a-percent of sales more than doubled from a post - recession low of 3.5 % to a high last year of more than 8 %, capex - as - a-percent of sales has largely stayed within a narrow range between 4 % and 5 %, and has not even recovered to its pre-GFC high.

If you're an income investor, you're looking for stocks that have higher - than - average dividends and dividend yields, a steady track record of paying out dividends, stable performance, solid reputations, and rising dividends year over year.

December is the second highest dividend producing month of the year for me.....

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.

It will never be a flying high stock anymore, but the consistency of its dividend payments and its incredible growth rate (the KO dividend doubles on average every 10 years) are solid enough to make KO a key investment in your holdings.

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.

If a company has proven that it can average a high return on total capital within the majority of its business operations (averaging, say, 15 % + per year for many years) then the company can reinvest what would be dividends, and thus save the shareholder tax.

• Excellent on certain dividend categories, including 43 straight years of increases, low payout ratio, and highest yield ever available • Declining number of shares over the past 10 years makes each remaining share worth a higher percentage of the company.

As you can see many of the stocks mentioned may have high current PE's but also feature long to very long dividend histories with relatively high ten year annualized dividend growth rates at around or better than 10 %.

These funds select solely on high yields, though, with no extra points given to companies that can increase their dividends year after year.

These nearly zero interest rates is what drove many U.S. and European fixed income investors towards higher income opportunities in their own home countries — so, they bought more equities, REITs and dividend growth stocks over the last 5 years, driving up valuations (though the February correction has brought back some sanity.)

This is a good dividend growth resume, highlighted by the 45 - year streak of dividend increases and the high dividend safety grades.

Therefore, they're most likely to hold beaten down dividend payers and high yielding REITs, neither of which necessarily present the opportunity for years upon years of dividend growth.

For the entire year, dividends amounted to $ 415.4 billion, the second - highest total in 10 years.

Where we've been wrong the past two years is that capital requirements kept moving higher, so less cash was available for dividends or repurchase.

High - dividend stocks have outperformed dividend growers in the past year, but our analysis shows they historically have been vulnerable to higher rates.