Fortunately, it's not impossible — or even all that difficult, really — to estimate the fair value of
just about any dividend growth stock out there, putting an investor in the «driver's seat» when it comes to making an intelligent investment decision for the long term.
Just about any dividend index fund or ETF you look at, whether it's the Vanguard High Yield, Vanguard Dividend Appreciation, or anything else, you'll find that in some years the dividends go up, and in some years they go down a bit.
Fortunately, there are many tools that are freely and easily accessible, designed to help investors estimate the value of
just about any dividend growth stock.
The good news about all of this is that it's not terribly difficult to estimate the fair value of
just about any dividend growth stock out there.
Not exact matches
Think
about it; if you were unlucky enough to buy into the stock market at the peak in 2008,
just before the financial crisis hit full force, your gains (excluding
dividends) wouldn't buy you much more than two loaves of price - fixed bread at Loblaws and a bag of President's Choice sour grapes.
We have
about $ 650k in cash (which we use to buy & refurb small properties) the aforementioned $ 800k which is a nice mix of tech and F500
dividend payers, and
just over $ 1M of retirement accounts - 750 in USA in appl, AMZN, GOOG etc, and $ 260K in UK where I worked for 12 years — BTW the $ 260K was $ 300K pre-Brexit.
We've already written a pretty extensive post
about why focusing on
dividend stocks is
just plain silly.
Not surprisingly, the historical average
dividend yield on the S&P 500 has been
just about 4 %.
We
just talked
about increased taxes on
dividend funds.
Between «losing» a lot of money right off the bat and then getting interested in a whole host of other things as a teenager, I pretty much forgot
about the account,
just letting capital gains and
dividends reinvest since then.
It was around that time that I learned
about Dividend Aristocrats and
Dividend Champions when it all
just made sense.
I was
just jealous
about all the other bloggers, who wrote
about about their monthly
dividend income.
Remember, it's important to think
about total return investing — not
just a handful of cute
dividends.
So in the last couple of weeks I was thinking a lot
about other investment alternatives, besides
just dividend paying companies.
To give you a better understanding of how rising interest rates negatively affect the principal portion of a
dividend yielding asset
just think
about real estate.
These are
just a few reasons why buying and holding high - quality
dividend growth stocks is such a great way to think
about income, essentially «future - proofing» oneself.
If you want to talk
about your income being more diverse,
just take a look at my real - world six - figure
dividend growth stock portfolio that I built by living below my means and investing my excess capital into fantastic dividend growth stocks like those you can find on David Fish's Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challenge
dividend growth stock portfolio that I built by living below my means and investing my excess capital into fantastic
dividend growth stocks like those you can find on David Fish's Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challenge
dividend growth stocks like those you can find on David Fish's
Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challenge
Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers list.
Dang, thanks for the update on potash
dividend cut, all my stocks i own i
just buy and almost forget
about.
We've still got a ways to go before we hit those levels, still looking for that first $ 1k month of
just dividends, but we're headed in the right direction after
about a 3 year hiatus from investing.
If you went
about spending money anyhow hoping your investment might produce
dividends your club would
just run bankrupt.
For the would - be profiteers, «charter schools,» «No Child Left Behind,» «Race to the Top,» and «Reform = Blame the Unions & Teachers» are
just so many scams and schemes for bringing
about for - big - profit, anti-kids school systems — where the bonuses and
dividends could match (or even surpass) those in our for - profit prison and health insurance industries.
Above example could be really childish and improbable scenario but
just a random scenario to learn
about growth vs
dividend options.
Its price is up
about 5 %, and it
just increased its
dividend 8 % in March, which is a very good jump.
This is
just one example of penny stocks that offer a high
dividend yield and might be a good first step for an investor to think
about for further research.
They increase annually, so I am expecting them to increase their
dividend in
just about a month.
Find out more
about ETFs that provide
dividends from various sources in emerging markets and in many other global markets, not
just Canada.
Strategic
Dividend Value is hedged at
about half the value of its stock holdings, and Strategic Total Return continues to hold a duration of
just over 3.5 years (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact Fund value by
about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), with less than 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and
about 5 % of assets in utility shares.
I especially agree
about the Apple stock, I
just recently arrived at the same conclusion after learning some lessons myself I think my biggest mistake is not getting into investing sooner and especially not getting into investing in solid,
dividend paying companies like Coca - Cola sooner.
That first
dividend does not cover a whole quarter, so if we
just annualize the second figure and assume an average share price of $ 10, that's a yield of
about 3.78 %.
As you are
about to discover, the table reveals more than
just the number of years for a stock to break even after various percentage price declines at different
dividend yields.
In addition,
just about all ETFs pay
dividends or interest at the end of the calendar year.
I am not sure specifically
about what you are asking and would like to hear on this myself but I don't believe there is any disadvantage per se because I know there are programs that do
dividend reinvestment and that results in fractional ownership of a share until it becomes a full share and while only your «whole» shares are «traded» when it comes to actual worth, your fractional count too, so I assume from that if you had «whole» shares no matter what the amount, you'd be proportionally invested as anyone owning more shares,
just to a lesser extent.
As we can see, in
about 17.7 years the stock that immediately dropped 50 % in value surpasses its counterpart that had immediately increased by 50 %
just on account of the reinvested
dividends acquired at lower cost.
CME Group pays regular quarterly
dividends of 66 cents, for a current yield of
just about 2.0 %.
OHI has raised their
dividend just about every quarter over the past 5 years with an annual growth rate over 10 %.
Dividend investors
just have to be right
about the company's ability to perform.
Early last year I was thinking
about adding INTC to my portfolio, but the lack of
dividend increases and the valuation
just didn't make it very attractive.
They aren't the
dividend monsters they once were, but they survived deregulation and are suitable for
just about any retirement portfolio.
These are
just a few reasons why buying and holding high - quality
dividend growth stocks is such a great way to think
about income, essentially «future - proofing» oneself.
The issue I have with the
dividend growth strategy is that most
dividend growth stocks have yields that
just currently meet or barely exceed inflation (which has been at
about 2 - 3 % and most
dividend growth stocks have yields in the 3 - 5 % range).
It's
just amazing how that passive income climbs year by year when following such a systematic approach: in 2012 my stock portfolio generated around USD 1» 700 in
dividends and with regard to 2018, we are already talking
about CHF 5» 500.
If you want to talk
about your income being more diverse,
just take a look at my real - world six - figure
dividend growth stock portfolio that I built by living below my means and investing my excess capital into fantastic dividend growth stocks like those you can find on David Fish's Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challenge
dividend growth stock portfolio that I built by living below my means and investing my excess capital into fantastic
dividend growth stocks like those you can find on David Fish's Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challenge
dividend growth stocks like those you can find on David Fish's
Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challenge
Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers list.
Taking into account doubling times, and virtuous circles of ever - growing
dividend payments which in turn become new investments, I guess I'm
just more optimistic
about my long - term returns.
I've been thinking
about UNP and NSC for a while and every time, I see it racing ahead and only recently, it is correcting and
dividends are
just ok.
It's a great way to think
about just how much these
dividend raises impact your real money.
I understand that they might be
just as passionate
about their interests as I am
about blogging and
dividend investing.
The growth rate in the equation is that for the
dividends paid, but when talking
about an unknown future, the
dividend growth is
just a proxy for capital gains.
I'm
just a regular guy who wants to share his personal experiences and views
about dividend investing with the rest of the world.
You'll find Motifs that represent
just about any financial micro-sector you can think of: Businesses With Lots of Facebook Likes, Bio-Tech Innovations, Cancer, 3D Printing, High - Performing
Dividend stocks, etc..
I talked
about something called shareholder yield, which I think is far more important than
just a company's
dividend yield.