Their dividends are usually qualified dividends, which get taxed at a lower tax rate, their yield is usually higher than common stock yields, and they may provide
less share price volatility.
A portfolio with a beta of greater than 1 would generally see its share price rise or fall by more than the market, while a portfolio with a beta of less than 1 would have
less share price volatility than the market.
Not exact matches
Banks, which lend heavily to the energy sector and represent a rather large
share of the Canadian market, would see
less earnings
volatility if oil
prices were to stabilize.
More
shares mean
less volatility because it takes a larger number of trades, a larger number of
shares per trade, or a combination of both to raise or lower the stock
price.
(xiv) Many believe that a steady $ $ dividend in a period of stock
price volatility, allows the reinvested dividend to purchase more
shares when the stock is down, and
less shares when the stock is high, producing extra returns from a dollar - cost - averaging effect.
With treasuries yielding next to nothing, and the fear of a future market down - leg on people's minds, investors have flocked to companies that pay solid dividends, have solid balance sheets, and generally have
less volatility in their
share price.
The risks of investing in emerging markets include the risks of illiquidity, increased
price volatility, smaller market capitalizations,
less government regulation,
less extensive and
less frequent accounting, financial and other reporting requirements, risk of loss resulting from problems in
share registration and custody, substantial economic and political disruptions and the nationalization of foreign deposits or assets.