Sentences with phrase «higher percentage of stocks»

Apparently, it makes sense to hold a higher percentage of stocks at intermediate valuations when they make generous dividend payments.

These funds start with a higher percentage of stocks to seek early growth and then become more conservative as your target date approaches.

But in terms of which part of one's total retirement and non-retirement assets to allocate to stocks and bonds, it does make sense to keep higher percentage of stocks in non-retirement assets than in retirement assets.

If anything, early retirees need a slightly higher percentage of stocks to fuel their portfolio over the long haul.

If your stocks offer a 10 percent return over a year while your bonds return 4 percent, you will end up with a higher percentage of stocks and lower percentage of bonds than you started.

A dividend - based strategy is likely to come very close to matching the high, long - term return of the stock market because it can tolerate a very high percentage of stocks.

Not exact matches

On Monday, U.S. stocks pulled back from record highs, with the Dow and the S&P 500 indexes marking their biggest one - day percentage declines in about five months, weighed down by a slide in Apple shares on reports of poor iPhone X demand.

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

Over the last twenty - four years, the percentage of stocks beating the index got as high as 66.5 % in 2001 and as low as 29 % in 1998.

Brokers offer one avenue for getting that first share, although the fees to purchase one share of stock will be quite high in percentage terms of the total investment.

An offer of a stock allowing institutional investors and occasionally high net - worth individuals to buy a large percentage of a company's equity, usually at an price higher than previous offer of stock.

Moving a higher percentage of your assets from stocks to bonds and / or cash makes sense, because while you may not be making all the gains from stocks you might, you are preserving capital.

These are defined as stocks that historically paid a persistently higher - than - average dividend (as a percentage of their share price) over time.

Conventional wisdom says that when you're younger and further from needing to live off your investments, you can afford to have a high percentage of your investments in the stock market.

This is lower volatility than many other stocks in percentage terms, but because of the high stock price (absolute, not a reflection of value) the moves are large in absolute dollar terms.

In fact, the University of Michigan's Consumer Sentiment Survey recently found that the percentage of households saying it's a good time to buy stocks is at its highest level since the tech boom.

The higher your capacity for risk, the higher the percentage of your portfolio that can be allocated to stocks.

Looking ahead now to a new day and to the start of the FOMC meeting, we see that stocks were modestly higher in Asia overnight, with the gains generally less than half a percentage point.

Despite the lower allocation for small capitalization stocks, this percentage is relatively high given the relative size of that market segment.

Finally the real New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as a percentage of US GDP rose to new highs — going over the previous high set on March 2000, more than 15 years ago when the dot - com bubble was at peak!

In that instance, the earliest warnings were from weakness in utilities and corporate bonds, but the percentage of stocks above their own 200 - day averages didn't fall below 60 % until the market itself was already down nearly 10 % from its high; less than two weeks before the crash.

About 60 % of individual investors said this month they think the stock market will go higher over the next six months, the highest percentage since 2010, according to a recent American Association of Individual Investors survey.

Defensive investing typically implies a low risk / low return portfolio with a high percentage of assets in bonds, cash equivalents and stable stocks.

Cows are increasingly making up a high percentage of prime cattle market yardings as producer consign breeding stock to lighten stocking rates in the dry conditions.

Adding that amount alone back into the stock would increase the total base by nearly 20 % and reduce the total amount of money borrowed under President Mahama as a percentage of accumulated stock since independence to about 23 %, which, high as it is, is not nearly as dramatic as 66 %.

Three days before Christmas, FOR's data indicated that nearly 10 % of the postdocs who had been told they would receive holiday season raises instead got metaphorical lumps of coal in their financial stockings: The percentage of postdocs actually seeing higher salaries had shrunk from the expected 69.1 % to 59.2 %.

For this you would probably want a higher percentage of growth stocks that don't necessarily pay a dividend.

I probably wouldn't put it all into stocks all at once, but I would put in a high percentage of it.

If you stick with top quality stocks paying the highest dividends, the income you earn can supply a significant percentage of your total return — as much as a third... Read More

We frequently find large blocks of these stocks held by small cap investment funds focused on likely take - over targets, leading to a surprisingly high percentage of total insider ownership (management plus holders of more than 5 %).

@Victor Well, I think the real issue is the percentages... When you buy a stock that's THAT cheap, the odds of it doubling (or more) are going to be much higher than say... Apple stock which is currently $ ~ 119.

They represent a large percentage of the S&P and are probably depressing the E making the P / E high (and that may explain why quality stocks look so cheap)

• The company's current yield falls to a very low percentage (perhaps no longer delivering the amount of income that you want from that stock) or climbs to a very high percentage (suggesting that the dividend is in danger).

Incidentally, Gallup reports that the two highest percentages of Americans owning stocks were in 2000 and 2007 — both stock market peaks.

An aggressive portfolio is typically a stock portfolio with a high percentage of more speculative or high - growth stocks.

If you stick with top quality high dividend yield stocks, the income you earn can supply a significant percentage of your total return — as much as a third of your gains.

Be wary of any blue chip stocks with unusually high dividend yields: Investors should avoid judging a company based solely on its dividend yield (the percentage you get when you divide a company's current yearly payment by its share price).

Maybe there are somewhat more stable stocks larger companies stocks dividend payers maybe there's a larger percentage of high - quality bonds in there relative to your very long - term horizon.

Most retirees should have limited exposure to the stock market, so if you're a retiree with a high percentage of your portfolio in equities, you may want to sell some of your stocks and add more Canadian bonds.

Selection criteria: stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial Average that were recently paying the highest dividends as a percentage of their share price.

If you stick with top quality high dividend paying stocks, the income you earn can supply a significant percentage of your total return — as much as a third of your gains.

At this point, I'm still encouraging my children to allocate a high percentage of their investments to global stocks (US and non-US), using low cost index funds as much as possible.

After two years of crisis, European stocks are cheaper than their American rivals, and they tend to pay out a higher percentage of their profits as dividends.

With that handsome stream of reliable income to fall back on, you might keep a high percentage in stocks, even after you retire.

The reason that overall long - term positive stock returns seem so high is statistical: A stock (think Apple, Google, Microsoft) can appreciate by many thousands of percentage points, while a loser like Enron or Washington Mutual can lose only 100 %.

Most interestingly, there is a quote from Warren Buffett which is perhaps the most quantitative statement he has made in recent years on interest rates and current asset prices: «Warren Buffett, the most famous disciple of Ben Graham, said this week that stocks would look cheap in three years» time if interest rates were one percentage - point higher, but not if they were three percentage points higher.»

If you are more risk averse you might want to put a higher percentage of your portfolio in bonds, versus stocks.

These ETFs may not have the highest percentage of Paragon Commercial Corp., but offer a broader sector / region exposure further minimizing single stock risk.

These ETFs may not have the highest percentage of Old Republic International Corp., but offer a broader sector / region exposure further minimizing single stock risk.

At a Terminal Value percentage of zero, only the Likely Failure Rate and Almost Certain Failure Rate have high optimal fixed stock allocations.