It's tempting to fall in love with the idea of buying a stock and collecting
the steadily increasing dividends every year — it seems like free money but in actual fact the company is just giving some of its cash away to its investors.
Not exact matches
Build a reliable,
steadily increasing stream of
dividends over many
years that can eventually be used as income for retirement.
Even though the
dividend has been
steadily increasing during the past two
years, it's currently little more than 1 %.
As some of you have noticed, my monthly
dividend income amounts have
steadily increased over the past
year.
XOM has a
dividend history of over 100
years and they have been
steadily increasing their
dividend over the past 32
years.
Over the last four
years, revenue has
increased steadily and the company has generated a steady cash flow to buy back company stock, pay a
dividend, and pay down outstanding debt.