Sentences with phrase «returns than dividend»

Some would argue that dividend growth — the rate at which a dividend is increasing — is a more important predictor of returns than dividend yield.

Not exact matches

You can think of the «return» on this investment as the value of paying yourself, rather than a landlord, even if it's not paying dividends or increasing in value.

Since 2012, when the company launched the largest share repurchase program ever, Apple has returned a little more than $ 100 billion to shareholders in stock buybacks and dividends.

Buying back stock is, for example, Warren Buffett's preferred way of returning cash to shareholders (rather than paying a dividend).

Buffett is right that, for most of his stock - picking history, shareholders have likely been better off leaving their money in his care rather than siphoning the cash into their own accounts by way of dividends: Since 1965, Berkshire Hathaway stock has delivered annualized returns of nearly 21 %, more than double the S&P 500.

My reasoning: Return would be lower than Dividend Investing above because index funds need to hold stocks yielding 1 and 2 % as well as those yielding > 3 %.

Such returns are much better than the average private equity, CD, bond market, P2P lending, and dividend investing returns.

If you've ever had occasion to look into the academic research comparing different types of returns from stocks that have different characteristics, as a class, dividend stocks tend to do better than the average stock over long periods of time.

While stocks are riskier than bonds or cash investments, they have much higher returns over the long run and many issue dividends on top of this.

MarketCap / GVA is better correlated with actual subsequent S&P 500 total returns than price / forward earnings, the Fed Model, the Shiller P / E, price / book, price / dividend, Tobin's Q, market capitalization to GDP, price / revenue and every other valuation ratio we've developed or examined in market cycles across history.

There are alternatives that can protect investors from future inflation that are less volatile (TIPS) or offer a better return profile (REITs and even high quality dividend stocks) than commodities.

The thing is, the alternative to dividend investing — investing for total return — will get you even more money than a dividend investing strategy ever will.

On a total return basis, the Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio (+0.3 %) rose less than the S&P 500 (+2.9 %) and underperformed as a long portfolio last month.

On a price return basis, the Safest Dividend Yields Model Portfolio -LRB--2.6 %) fell more than the S&P 500 -LRB--0.6 %) and underperformed as a long portfolio last month.

Throw in the most recent year's $ 365 billion in dividends, and the total amount returned to shareholders reaches $ 885 billion, more than the companies» combined net income of $ 847 billion.

The 15 - yr annualized return for the S&P 500 Index, including dividends, is less than 5 %.

I have to imagine that for most investors their overall stock returns will be greater sticking with dividend stocks than chasing those elusive multi-baggers.

If a company pays a dividend equivalent to a 3 % yield, management is essentially telling investors they can't find better investments within the company that will return greater than 3 %.

So far I've more than doubled my initial investment in the past couple years, much more than the meager returns offered by dividend stocks.

For those investors who desire a monthly income with the flexibility of investment choice, and the potential for better returns than achievable from a savings account, then investing into stocks that pay their dividends monthly could be the answer.

Since total return is comprised of income (via dividends or distributions) and capital gain, with the former counting much more over the long term, the case for this stock having a great 2018 is certainly already there based on that higher - than - average yield.

On the basis of nominal total returns (including dividends), we estimate zero or negative returns for the S&P 500 on every horizon shorter than about 8 years.

And, equally, that if you are getting say a 5 % dividend yield on a a portfolio of shares then the excess income is not «free» — you are taking on more risk than you think, or perhaps the capital returns will be poor.

At 44.4 %, however, less than half of the company's earnings are being returned to shareholders via a dividend, providing plenty of room for more increases going forward.

This ETF yields 3.4 % on dividend, so saving small money into this ETF may provide a lot better return than saving money in a savings account where we can receive 0.90 % APY only.

Over the long term, dividend - paying stocks have delivered higher returns with lower risk than non-dividend payers.

If you buy stock in an overvalued company, your returns are likely to be less than the sum of dividend yield and dividend growth.

Anyways, 11 % increase was achieved more by new investments than dividend returns and additional investments are drying up this year.

We know that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway hasn't paid a dividend in more than 30 years because Buffett feels that the return on capital that he generates by retaining those earnings will create eventual share price appreciation value for the shareholder that will exceed the share price / dividend capital appreciation that his shareholders would receive.

Both the investment worth and the passive dividend income grew at a rate of return of more than 11 %.

If, instead, you buy quality undervalued companies, your returns may be greater than the sum of dividend yield and dividend growth.

U.S. companies have been more generous than ever in returning excess cash to shareholders via dividends.

The closest to this type of holding in our portfolio is Pepsi (PEP), which over the last three years has returned more than 90 % of its net income to shareholders in the form of dividends and share buybacks.

Over the long term, companies that can consistently and reliably increase dividends paid to investors offer higher returns with less risk than companies that do not pay a dividend, or which do not consistently increase dividends paid to investors.

It's only been a few months since I created the dividend fund but the return of 17.2 % has beaten the S&P 500 by more than 3 % and that's not including the 1.35 % return on dividends collected so far.

We all know that time in the market is much better than timing the market when it comes to compounding dividend returns.

Whenever the S&P 500 total return index fell more than 10 % below its all - time peak, the Bargain Hunter portfolio took all accumulated cash and interest earned and invested it into the S&P 500, and earned the index's total return with dividends reinvested.

Our preference for how that capital is returned is repurchase of undervalued shares since that adds more value than a taxable dividend would.

in the event that any dividend and / or other form of capital return or distribution is announced, declared, made or paid by Shire otherwise than in the ordinary course, to reduce any offer by the amount of such dividend and / or other form of capital return or distribution.

On a 10 - 12 year horizon, we expect the total return of the S&P 500 to fall short of 1 % annually, and given that more than that amount is likely to represent dividends, it follows that we expect the level of the S&P 500 Index to be lower 10 - 12 years from now than it is today (recall a similar outcome after the 2000 peak).

Interestingly, if over the course of the forecast horizon, they go up and then revert back to where they are today, the effect on the return will actually be negative, because there will be no net change in valuation, but some of the ensuing dividends will have been reinvested at higher valuations than those available today.

The finding appears to extend to the macroeconomic level as well — shareholders in the larger economy got a much bigger bang for their buck when cash was returned to them as dividends than when it was deployed into capital expenditure.

This will tend to understate the performance of the taxable account in circumstances where long - term capital gains and qualified dividends, which are currently taxed at lower rates than ordinary income, are a component of investment returns, as is the case for investments with significant equity holdings.

27 of 94 Monthly Paying (MoPay) U.S. dividend stocks were tagged «safer» by showing positive annual returns, and free cash flow yields greater than...

Graham recommends a stock having a dividend history of longer than 10 years, at which point a company has established a track record of consistent profits and returns for the company's investors.

Keep in mind that HASI's has maintained a more predictable dividend growth profile than the mREIT peers, so from a risk / return perspective, I consider HASI's platform more appealing.

Since the industry consolidated and management incentives changed to being based on returns on capital rather than growth, capacity (supply) growth has tracked GDP (demand) growth closely, free cash flow generation has been significant and consistent, and the companies have consistently paid down debt, bought back stock and paid dividends.

When it comes down to it, in a stock market that is feeling more uncertain and volatile than it has in several years, and when income vehicles are priced at a premium, there's a certain wisdom (or at least well - studied prudence) in considering a slightly lower dividend in exchange for the potential for greater stability and long - term return.

Most of those companies have more near - term ability to return capital to shareholders through dividends and share repurchase than financial stocks do.

Although Graham might not have, I would exempt FB from Graham's third requirement for dividends, as I believe Facebook's return on investing moneyin their own business is higher than the return a shareholder would find with dividends.