Dividend growth investing means I am looking for companies that not only pay a nice dividend now, but have a history
of meaningful dividend increases over time and are likely to continue this trend.
Not exact matches
The problem is, with
dividend yields relatively low at 2 - 3 % you need a lot
of capital to generate any sort
of meaningful income.
Wall Street doesn't seem to be properly accounting for the reinstatement
of a lucrative
dividend or
meaningful opportunities for growth in the year and years ahead.
Berkshire has Warren Buffett guiding a $ 55 billion cash hoard, and ExxonMobil frequently enjoys years
of undervaluation coupled with earnings and
dividend growth that make it a godsend for people that want to generate
meaningful (and growing)
dividend streams over the decades.
High Risk — Income (H / INC) Medium to higher risk equities
of companies that are structured with a focus on providing a
meaningful dividend but may face less predictable earnings (or losses), more leveraged balance sheets, rapidly changing market dynamics, financial and competitive issues, higher price volatility (beta), and potential risk
of principal.
Stocks with high
dividend yields are attractive from the standpoint that they are providing
meaningful income when the broad market is flat, they can buffer against a downturn due to the yield they're throwing off, and best
of all, during a market upturn, they continue to provide yield and capital appreciation simultaneously.
If
dividends are only paid at the discretion
of the board, then this percentage is not very
meaningful.
In other words, stress the legitimate kid - beneficial aspects
of your proffered policy, but sprinkle in occasional allusions to
meaningful dividends for the decision makers involved.
Index funds are okay if you want to safeguard your money in terms
of protecting capital, when it comes to making money they are a bit dubious as with
dividends invested you are looking at between 50 - 100 years to make
meaningful gains a  # 1000 invested might come up to  # 100,000 or  # 2,000 as it depends on the valuation
of the shares, my advice is if you really want to do it then invest in one or two and see if you can handle the psychological dips over 3 - 5 years otherwise just invest in well managed companies.
Businesses that lose money simply can not pay
dividends for any
meaningful length
of time.
The problem is most people fail to accumulate enough shares
of dividend stocks to create enough
meaningful and impactful income.
The stock also has an attractive
dividend yield
of 3.6 %, a 10 % historical
dividend growth rate, a reasonable earnings multiple (14x), and
meaningful free cash flow growth potential over the next five years.
Our philosophy stems from the belief that (a) great businesses that adopt a
meaningful dividend - growth capital allocation preference can generate wonderful investing outcomes over time and (b)
dividends are a more reliable part
of total return than capital gains.
When central banks lowered interest rates to historic lows in the wake
of the financial crisis, investors were forced into
dividend stocks to generate
meaningful returns.
This includes high - quality corporate and municipal bonds as well as stocks
of utilities, consumer product companies, health care firms and others that pay
meaningful dividends that are likely to rise.
Note that certain ETPs may not make
dividend payments, and as such some
of the information below may not be
meaningful.
In the above - mentioned list
of companies, whose common stocks all are selling at
meaningful discounts from NAV and which also enjoy super-strong financial positions, long - term returns to TAM investors would likely be more than satisfactory, if the individual issuers could increase their NAV after adding back
dividends by at least 10 % per annum compounded.
But I still greatly enjoy investing as a hobby, and I view the additional freedom I gain with every additional
dividend dollar as a
meaningful use
of some
of my capital.
This will likely put Bank
of America on the path to
meaningful dividend growth in the years ahead, as it's finally past the point
of having to use profits to shore up the capital base.