When surplus becomes adequate, premium growth rate slows, and
stock prices rise slowly, at roughly the rate of retained earnings.
Not exact matches
Over time investors hope that the
stock price rises, the dividend payments
slowly increase, and you can start a snowball effect by constantly reinvesting the dividends in new shares.
With that said I will venture that yield of XOM will continue to
rise for at least another year as the
stock price slowly deteriorates to match the companies underlying fundamentals of increased debt and reduction in FCF.
The
stock price has been
rising steadily /
slowly the last year and I feel somewhat confident it will at least stay flat.