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The tax cut and excess federal spending may boost some areas of the economy, but thus far, it has not produced anything more than a modest boost in capital spending (most of it from capital intensive technology companies) but a surge in stock buybacks and dividend increases, Apple being a case in point.

Warren Buffett, No. 3 on Forbes» list of the world's richest people and most prominent among the low - tax dissenters, wrote an op - ed in The New York Times arguing that, in concert with budget cuts, Washington should raise taxes — especially on dividends and capital gains — for those earning upwards of US$ 1 million a year and even more on the 8,000 or so Americans making $ 10 million and up.

UC Berkeley's Danny Yagan found that the 2003 Bush cut to taxes on dividends (money coming from corporations and sent to investors) didn't spur investment at all; it just encouraged companies to pay out more of their profits to investors.

More sources of income will protect you from a dividend cut.

I feel the easy money has been made, which is why I've cut down my expensive growth stocks and gone more bonds and large cap dividend stocks.

As we approach the presidential election and the planned expiration of the Bush tax cuts at the end of the year, we may see people steer away from dividend strategies and focus more on total return strategies.

«Dividend cuts would take more from poor people than rich people because rich people would pay less taxes if their dividend was cut,» said Gunnar Knapp, a top economist on the region at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska AnDividend cuts would take more from poor people than rich people because rich people would pay less taxes if their dividend was cut,» said Gunnar Knapp, a top economist on the region at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Andividend was cut,» said Gunnar Knapp, a top economist on the region at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage.

We need to move towards a flatter, more pro-growth tax code and we need to encourage investment by cutting taxes on capital gains and dividends.

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The dividend cuts taught me to focus more on earrings and cash flow than simply chasing stocks with the highest yield, and my strategy has changed to focus on dividends that are sustainable.

With September's projected average monthly dividend income barely advancing due to NCV's dividend cut and then compensating for it by buying more EHI, I needed to boost my dividend income a bit if dividend income were to continue to grow.

The item to add however was that in 2000 the company did cut its dividends by more than 50 %.

Breaking $ 600 will become more frequent and I expect it to become routine if all goes well, such as not having any dividend cuts in the near future.

If one of your stocks cuts its dividend, or suspends its dividend program, it is not a «dividend growth» stock any more.

Still when it comes to dividend safety, higher dividends are more likely to be cut so we actually include this metric as negative, which seems counter intuitive, but has proven to be a useful indicator many times.

More recently, dividend darling General Electric, which hadn't cut its dividend since the Great Depression, made two cuts in the last decade, in 2008 and 2017.

But beware: Sometimes, eye - popping yields are a symptom of a struggling company that may deliver nothing more than steep capital losses and an eventual dividend cut or suspension.

An exceptionally high dividend yield is often a sign of financial distress... and a sign that dividend cuts are a lot more likely than dividend hikes.

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Plus, he can cut the family tax bill even more by paying dividends to family members in lower tax brackets.

I'm also leery of companies that pay more in dividends than they earn — particularly if this situation persists for a long time — because such firms often cut their dividends.

However, if you are more tolerant to dividend freezes and cuts during extreme declines in the energy markets, then it might make sense to look at Conoco, Shell, and BP.

To weed out those at risk of cutting their dividend, companies must have a positive five - year dividend - per - share growth rate and a dividend payout ratio of no more than 60 % of earnings.

Even in periods where dividend payouts were cut a whopping 50 percent, stock prices fell even more!

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).

The good news is that OHI's dividend is still covered by income, so a few more things would need to go wrong for a dividend cut to actually happen.

The market is very volatile right now, but cutting through it all I can only see my income rising and my reinvested dividends buying me more equities.

This week's big stories: Chesapeake's divvy cut, CYS (NYSE: CYS) and Hatteras (NYSE: HTS) report weak quarters, dividend investors are eyeing an opportunity in Cummins (NYSE: CMI), and more mREIT earnings are on the way.

The company's reasonable AFFO payout ratio (75 %) is also supportive of decent dividend growth, especially considering the low amount of sustaining capital expenditures required by the business (i.e. if Crown Castle cut back on growth investments, its AFFO payout ratio would drop and provide even more room for dividend increases).

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At the end, it's more important to buy solid companies that make you some money instead of buying risky companies that may return a lot of money or cut the dividends next year.

This prompted me to do some due diligence and research a little more about possible dividend cuts.

that other closed - end funds may either suspend or cut dividends, which would result in more sales, and further declines.

The more stable the business model, the more cash the company can routinely pay out from total cash flow without risking dividend cuts during tough times.

My thinking is there is more downside pain and if the dividend is cut, the stock would be in free fall.

WMB's shares actually closed up more than 6 % following the dividend cut news and the company's earnings report.

As a result, we reward stocks that have earned more than they pay out in dividends because stocks that pay dividends that aren't backed up by earnings will eventually be forced to cut them.

Diversifying cashflow in my portfolios is a primary long - term objective and I have to be prepared to look beyond common equities as an equity class since we've witnessed that they are much more vulnerable to dividend cuts than senior equity or debt higher up on the capital food chain.

I lost focus the following year (dating and marriage can do that), making few buys and as a result dividend income for 2012 was barely more than 2011 (dividend cuts didn't help the situation either).

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First, companies with lower Dividend Safety Scores were more likely to cut their dividends by larger amounts.

If you broaden your horizons across the entire TSX and S&P 500 to include smaller companies, there are plenty of high yielding stocks that may not be good options, paying high dividends simply because they've gone down in value and haven't yet cut their dividends (think junior oil companies paying out more than they're earning).

They have also cut their dividend recently and the stock sold off more than 30 % in the last month.

Hopefully, as I buy more stocks with a history of regular dividend increases, the damage from dividend cuts should lessen.

Thus, more than 29 % of the companies that would originally have comprised the database 3.7 years ago have fallen by the wayside for any number of reasons that would have required investors to have made some difficult and even agonizing choices regarding what to do — e.g. sell or hold at a loss after a dividend cut or cancellation, remain invested in an acquiring company that was not a dividend champion, etc..

Living in a tiny house can reap dividends beyond just being able to get to mortgage - free sooner and cutting utility bills down to size, as learning to live more simply and minimally can offer a sense of satisfaction and fulfillment that isn't easily found in any other living environment.

He also explaines his idea of putting a fee on carbon with dividend back to the people in order to cut back our dependence on fossil... More»

But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.

The company chopped its quarterly dividend by 40 percent and said it would increase planned job cuts to 1,100, more than 15 percent of its workforce.