Not exact matches
Combine that with a sparkling balance sheet and its history
of never
cutting its
dividend — the yield is now 2.5 % — and its beaten - down share price (down
by a third over the past two years) looks like an opportunity to pick up a high - quality bargain.
Much
of corporate America is likely to spend the savings from the rate
cut by increasing
dividends and share buybacks.
Flannery said GE is «keenly aware
of the pain» caused
by its poor performance and
dividend cut last year.
Even after the successful refranchising process and factoring in the positive effect
of the US corporate tax
cut, I see Coca Cola's
dividend payout ratio above 80 % in the medium run and marching up from that level year
by year.
Insurer Allstate likely made its investors happy this February when it announced that it was boosting its quarterly
dividend by 24 percent to 46 cents a share, a benefit
of the half - billion dollars in profit freed up
by the recent
cut to the corporate tax rate.
His extra fitness work seems to have paid
dividends as evidenced
by a frightening turn
of pace against Club Brugge which not only broke down a clear
cut chance for the opposition, but sprung a ferocious counter attack which almost saw Depay complete his hat - trick in style after a delightful flick from Rooney after Shaw's cross.
The party says its manifesto is fully costed for day - to - day revenue spending, with money raised
by adding a penny to all rates
of income tax and
dividends tax, reversing planned
cuts to corporation tax and
cuts to capital gains tax, and legalising and taxing cannabis.
If all
of the companies in my
Dividend Empire portfolio pay out on schedule with no dividend cuts, this TGT addition pushes me over $ 500 worth of dividends in the Empire portfolio by the end of t
Dividend Empire portfolio pay out on schedule with no
dividend cuts, this TGT addition pushes me over $ 500 worth of dividends in the Empire portfolio by the end of t
dividend cuts, this TGT addition pushes me over $ 500 worth
of dividends in the Empire portfolio
by the end
of the year!
By using a decade of smoothed earnings E10, we reduce the likelihood of our being caught by a surprise dividend cu
By using a decade
of smoothed earnings E10, we reduce the likelihood
of our being caught
by a surprise dividend cu
by a surprise
dividend cut.
While it is easy to take for granted, I would like to begin
by recognizing that none
of the companies I own
cut their
dividends through 2016 — all were either maintained or raised.
Since many
of the
dividends paid
by the SP500 come from Financials, and the Financial companies obviously are involved in a huge mess, the
dividends could be
cut severely.
These companies have elevated their payouts for many years, boast
dividend yields up to nearly 7 % and maintain healthy Dividend Safety Scores — a metric calculated by Simply Safe Dividends to assess a company's risk of future divide
dividend yields up to nearly 7 % and maintain healthy
Dividend Safety Scores — a metric calculated by Simply Safe Dividends to assess a company's risk of future divide
Dividend Safety Scores — a metric calculated
by Simply Safe
Dividends to assess a company's risk
of future
dividenddividend cuts.
Dividend investors hope to avoid dividend cuts by buying companies with a history of consistently paying and increasing di
Dividend investors hope to avoid
dividend cuts by buying companies with a history of consistently paying and increasing di
dividend cuts by buying companies with a history
of consistently paying and increasing
dividends.
And the impact
of any one company's decision to
cut dividends can be minimized
by investing in baskets
of dividend stocks using funds.
By selling a
dividend stock that has
cut or eliminated its
dividends and reinvesting the proceeds in a stock that exhibits solid
dividend growth, you will raise the expected
dividend growth rate
of your overall portfolio.
We can see what a difficult feat that is
by observing the number
of constituents from 2009 - 2011, the years following the 2008 financial crisis, when many
dividend - paying companies either
cut or omitted their
dividends altogether.
But is there a chance that given the extreme lack
of risk taking and lending
by banks that even healthy companies may
cut dividends simply as a risk management mechanism to save capital in case their banks / debt holders are so risk averse that they do not roll over existing debt?
Corning had a
dividend cut in 2001 followed
by complete elimination
of the
dividend in 2002 due to poor earnings.
And given the
cut - throat competitiveness
of the business, longer - term
dividend growth (or even
dividend maintenance) is
by no means certain.
Offer peace
of mind
by owning quality businesses that deliver lower - than - market volatility and don't
cut their
dividend
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).
Finally, while BP has said it will pay for the clean - up and direct damages to those affected
by the spill, the Obama Administration is going a step further and threatening to force BP to
cut its
dividend and «repay the salaries
of any workers laid off because
of the six - month moratorium on deepwater exploratory drilling imposed
by the U.S. government after the spill.»
For a company to
cut its
dividend to preserve cash is usually taken as a signal
of weakness
by investors so
dividend policy must be very carefully planned.
The Vanguard
Dividend Appreciation ETF wanders farther out on the risk spectrum by using a cut off of only 10 years of increasing dividend p
Dividend Appreciation ETF wanders farther out on the risk spectrum
by using a
cut off
of only 10 years
of increasing
dividend p
dividend payments.
Pfizer had an excellent history
of dividend growth with a historical average
of over 18 % per year before
cutting it
by 50 % in 2009 to $ 0.64 per share on an annual basis.
Other stocks at the top
of a pure yield screen might include companies about to
cut the
dividend since their payout ratio can not be sustained
by the earnings.
I think that a
dividend cut per se is
by far not the end
of a business, especially in cyclical, capital intense sectors such thing can happen even to very strong companies.
There stock price has dropped from a high
of $ 8.90 in 2009 to a low
of around $ 4 today and they
cut their
dividend by half a few months ago, although it is still paying a 9 % yield.
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..
This system (which was introduced several years ago in the «Sky Trust» proposal) has some merits compared with the economist's favorite approach
of tax
cuts, namely that the Cap - and -
Dividend scheme addresses some
of the distributional issues that would be raised
by using the auction revenue to fund tax
cuts (which could favor higher income households).
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.
These tax credits can pay enormous
dividends at low cost:
by helping reduce tropical deforestation, they'll
cut the source
of 15
of global carbon pollution, more than all the cars, trucks, ships, and planes in the world combined.
The initial chaos in bail court caused
by these projects pays
dividends down the line as the vast majority
of cases have resulted in most minor players being
cut out entirely with mid and high - level suspects entering guilty pleas.
(RALEIGH, NC)- If the new analysis released
by the Annie E. Casey Foundation is any indication, previous investments in the health and education
of children in North Carolina have generated
dividends, returns which now stand in jeopardy due to recent state budget
cuts and eroding family economic security.
Faced with the challenge
of coming up with capital to fund expiring loans, many
of the nation's real estate investment trusts are trying to hold onto the cash they have — either
by cutting dividends for 2009 or paying a substantial portion
of that
dividend in stock, according to a Bloomberg news report.
Post Properties, the nation's eighth - largest apartment REIT, announced yesterday that it will
cut its quarterly
dividend for the first quarter
of 2003
by 42 %.
By comparison, the multifamily sector was responsible for 22 %
of all
dividend cuts, with retail REITs rounding out the high - end
of the list at 23 %.