Now that you're no longer getting dividends for free, have you considered moving to more growth stocks and
less dividend building in your taxable funds?
Not exact matches
That's because there's a margin of safety, or a buffer, that's often
built right in when you buy a
dividend growth stock that's undervalued, as that favorable gap between price and value also means there's
less of a possibility that the stock becomes worth
less than you paid through some kind of negative event (corporate malfeasance, investor mistake, etc.).
Dividend Growth Investing works to
build both your passive income and your net worth, can be more reliable than other investing methods, requires
less time, and can be performed by anyone with sufficient discipline and basic math skills.
iShares» SIZE yields just slightly
less than the 2.8 % from SPDR S&P
Dividend ETF (SDY), a large cap fund
built for yield and current income.
The downside is that risk is higher (
dividends may be cut, even when the economy is doing well), but the upside is that with higher yields one can
build a good income stream with
less capital and
less time (and being in my forties, time is more valued than it was in my twenties).
Over the years as I've
built my
dividend portfolio of over 40 stocks, the payout date spread - out has naturally taken its shape where majority of the payments come in during the last month of the quarter and the
lesser during the first two months.
Dividend investing is an amazing way for young investors to
build a solid portfolio by taking
less risk.
I decided that my challenge portfolio would
less about winning the whole thing (which requires more risk than I'm comfortable with) and more about using this as a way to
build a
dividend portfolio.
They have hit an inflection point, where the higher historical growth they have seen in the past will now likely slow due to
less opportunities to grow > cash then
builds up > company then decides to pay it out as a
dividend.