Sentences with phrase «measured by their dividend»

There are a multitude of reasons as to why this occurs but it's a powerful enough force that many investors have done quite well for themselves over an investing lifetime by focusing on dividend stocks, specifically one of two strategies - dividend growth, which focuses on acquiring a diversified portfolio of companies that have raised their dividends at rates considerably above average and high dividend yield, which focuses on stocks that offer significantly above - average dividend yields as measured by the dividend rate compared to the stock market price.

It is a mechanical value trading strategy designed to find stocks that are temporarily cheap as measured by their dividend yield.

Likewise, Morningstar found dividend stocks, measured by its Dividend Yield Focused Index, were overvalued by around 6 %.

Not exact matches

By one measure, for every dollar in profits, 80 cents went to shareholders through dividends and what are called share buybacks.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

There is no doubt that, based on pure, cold, logical data, stocks are the single best long - term performing asset class for disciplined investors who are not swayed by emotion, focus on earnings and dividends, and never pay too much for a stock, often as measured on a conservative beginning earnings yield relative to the Treasury bond yield basis.

Investing In Pizza Industry Dividend Stocks The U.S. pizza industry is large by most measures accounting for over $ 36 billion in annual sales.

Since the company went public in 2008, it's raised its dividend each year and its share price has outperformed gold bullion and gold miners, as measured by the S&P / TSX Global Gold Index, due to its unique structure and debt - free model.

Value can be determined by a variety of measures, including price - to - earnings ratio, price - to - book ratio, or dividend yield.

Yale University Professor Robert Shiller studied a diverse group of U.S. companies and found that from 1900 to 1980, they paid out an average of 61 percent of profits in dividends — that figure dwarfs combined dividends paid and share buybacks combined today by any measure.

They use a long - run sentiment index derived from principal component analysis of six sentiment measures: trading volume as measured by NYSE turnover; the dividend premium; the closed - end fund discount; the number of and first - day returns on Initial Public Offerings; and, the equity share in new issues.

Even within my dividend portfolio, I combine DCA (with automatic DRIP), and market timing strategies (by using PE as a valuation measure in deciding whether to add to existing positions or buy into new ones).

Here are the stock market results through December 28 for 2010 alone, as measured by The Vanguard Group's low - cost index mutual funds (with fees subtracted and dividends reinvested):

By this measure only the Greek stock market is cheaper, but the Greek stock market has no dividend yield to speak of.

A recent study by Wes Gray and Jack Vogel, Dissecting Shareholder Yield, makes the stunning claim that dividend yield doesn't predict future returns, but more complete measures of shareholder yield might hold some promise.

Admittedly, during the aggressive quantitative easing measures by the Fed over the past few years, high yielding dividend stocks have done quite well.

In the early 1920s, stock market valuation was comparatively low, as measured by the inflation - adjusted present value of future dividends.

The Fund seeks to track the performance of an index that measures the investment return of common stocks of companies that are characterized by high dividend yield.

The Index measures the performance of a selected group of equity securities issued by companies that have provided relatively high dividend yields on a consistent basis over time.

UK stocks (as measured by the FTSE 100 Index) offer the highest dividend yield of any major region (as measured by the MSCI World Index).1 UK valuations are the cheapest relative to the rest of the world in 15 years.2 What's more, FTSE 100 Index companies with more than 70 % of their revenues from abroad stand to benefit from the weaker pound.

This is true whether you measure S&P 500 valuation by the cyclically - adjusted price - to - earnings ratio, the market - capitalization - to - GDP ratio, the price - to - book - value ratio, the average dividend yield, or most other valuation metrics.

The typical academic literature is even backed up by the «sustainable growth model» measure of valuing stock prices, which suggests that future growth is largely supported by the percentage of retained earnings that is reinvested in the corporation (and not paid out as dividends).

Furthermore, the volatility of the dividend - growing stocks, as measured by their standard deviation, was 13 % versus the non-dividend-paying stocks was 23 %.

Deliver total returns that are competitive with the general stock market as measured by the S&P 500 with dividends reinvested.

Dividend - paying stocks represented by the MSCI USA High Dividend Yield Index, reflecting the performance of the high dividend yield of large - and mid-cap stocks in the U.S. Preferred stock represented by the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index, measuring the performance of preferred stocks listed in the U.S. with a market capitalization over $ 100 Dividend - paying stocks represented by the MSCI USA High Dividend Yield Index, reflecting the performance of the high dividend yield of large - and mid-cap stocks in the U.S. Preferred stock represented by the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index, measuring the performance of preferred stocks listed in the U.S. with a market capitalization over $ 100 Dividend Yield Index, reflecting the performance of the high dividend yield of large - and mid-cap stocks in the U.S. Preferred stock represented by the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index, measuring the performance of preferred stocks listed in the U.S. with a market capitalization over $ 100 dividend yield of large - and mid-cap stocks in the U.S. Preferred stock represented by the S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index, measuring the performance of preferred stocks listed in the U.S. with a market capitalization over $ 100 million.

Admittedly, during the aggressive quantitative easing measures by the Fed over the past few years, high yielding dividend stocks have done quite well.

Value can be determined by a variety of measures, including price - to - earnings ratio, price - to - book ratio, or dividend yield.

The investment seeks to track the performance of a benchmark index that measures the investment return of common stocks of companies that are characterized by high dividend yield.

We create a Global Blend Rank by ranking our global universe of over 15,000 companies in terms of both their Value (across range of metrics based on dividends, earnings, cash flow, assets and sales) and Quality (based on measures of profitability, stability and financial strength).

For all the talk of dividend investing in recent years, it's easy to lose sight of the fact that the average U.S. stock, as measured by the S&P 500, still yields a paltry 1.9 %.

The book value of equity is an accounting measure that is based on the historic cost principle, and reflects past issuances of equity, augmented by any profits or losses, and reduced by dividends and share buybacks.

The risk as measured by the volatility of the portfolio returns expressed in annualized terms is far less for dividend paying stocks than it is for non-dividend paying stocks.

The dividend yields are expressed as an annual percentage measure of the income that was earned by the fund's portfolio.

By almost any measure — dividend yields, price - earnings ratios, cyclically adjusted price - earnings ratios, Tobin's Q — U.S. stocks appear expensive.

Investors often view the company's dividend by its dividend yield which measures the dividend in terms of a percent of the current market price.

Even within my dividend portfolio, I combine DCA (with automatic DRIP), and market timing strategies (by using PE as a valuation measure in deciding whether to add to existing positions or buy into new ones).

The results of our analysis are generally a bit stronger when the aggregate valuation measure is used, but three of eight factors (value blend, momentum, and investment) and two of eight smart beta strategies (Fundamental Index and dividend index) show a stronger correlation when the P / B valuation measure is used.11 The aggregate valuation measure is likely stronger because it captures differences in profitability that can be missed by P / B.

In cash return investing, returns are measured by current yield (or dividend return), yield - to - maturity, yield - to - worst or yield - to - an - event.

The shares of dividend payers saw their prices fluctuate, as measured by a statistical term called beta, by just 92 % of the market average.

To estimate the dividends paid over a period of time, multiply each daily dividend by the price index the day it was paid to get the dividends measured as points of the price index.

I think I've made my point above that the average cost basis must include reinvested dividends, so by definition the «purchased shares» method more accurately measures yield on cost.

The S&P 500 Total Return Index measures the growth of the S&P 500 Index and assumes reinvestment of any dividends issued by underlying stocks.

The weighted average is calculated by measuring each company's dividend yield in proportion to the size of the holding in the portfolio.

It is during these crashes that we get better deals on stocks, meaning higher dividend yields and lower prices measured by P / E 10.

The most frequently used measure — dividend payout ratio, which is calculated as dividend per share divided by earnings per share — shows what percentage of its profit a company is returning to its shareholders in the form of cash dividends.

Dividend yields are constrained by earnings yields, when measured over a number of years.

See how the index series allows investors to more precisely measure the performance of the Australian equity market by factoring in the impact of franking credits attached to dividends.

Combined ratio, also called «the combined ratio after policyholder dividends ratio,» is a measure of profitability used by an insurance company to gauge how well it is performing in its daily operations.

International markets, measured by the MSCI World Total Return Index has soared 17.10 % including dividends.

Over the 40 years through year - end 2017, global stock markets — as measured by the MSCI World index — returned an average 9.9 % a year, including so - called net dividends, enough to turn $ 10,000 into almost $ 441,000.