The «smart financial choice» would be to maybe consider
purchasing more shares of the companies / funds you think will outperform in the long run.
Furthermore, constructive bear - market investors can generate improved portfolio returns over time by
purchasing more shares at lower prices.
I always look forward to corrections as a value investor, as that gives me the opportunity to
purchase more shares for my money.
You might be interested to know that every portfolio manager of every Oakmark Fund
purchased more shares in the past twelve months.
They include the purchase of the same stock whether in the same account or not, purchase of an option, being granted a stock option, exercising a stock option or reinvesting a dividend that
automatically purchases more shares of the stock.
However, they must be rebalanced periodically
by purchasing more shares of firms with prices that have fallen more than a fundamental metric, such as dividends paid, and selling shares in firms with prices that have risen more than the fundamental metric.
This way the shareholders can retain their level of control in the company without having to go out and
purchase more shares just for the power of the vote that will give the shareholder more clout at the board level for his / her interests in corporate activities.
For my part, I've
purchased more shares over the last few months — including some of the Safer Dogs — than I have over the last few years.
Investors savvy enough to reinvest dividends during bear
markets purchase more shares with the dividend while the prices are low rather than when the prices are high.
Investor B ended up with more than twice the number of shares than investor A because the fund price stayed low throughout the year,
thus purchasing more shares each month.»
When dividends are reinvested automatically, the funds are routed back
into purchasing more shares of the companies that issued the dividends.
You can bail out of your stock - market investments, as many investors do during steep market declines, or use these declines as an opportunity to
purchase more shares at lower prices, through monthly portfolio contributions or timely rebalancing from bonds to stocks.
While dollar - cost averaging won't insulate you from losses or guarantee a profit in a volatile market, investors will
purchase more shares when prices are lower, and fewer when they are higher.
In case of dividend funds the dividends would otherwise be paid out to investors but in dividend reinvestment option they are reinvested to
purchase more shares in the fund.
However, if an investor is seeking to
purchase more shares with optional cash payments on top of their dividends, a DRIP may not be the best choice.
Your returns are juiced more by doing this rather than leaving dividends in a brokerage account and the dividends keep growing over time,
automatically purchasing more shares for you.
I wrote a 3 part series on DRIPs which you can read if you're not familiar with them, but the basic idea is that the dividends you would have received (in cash) get reinvested automatically
by purchasing more shares.
Costs: Many DRIPs allow dividends to be reinvested at no fee, which lets investors
purchase more shares of the company at a lower cost.
I continue selling puts against companies I want to own more of and using proceeds to
purchase more shares of these companies.
My Telecom exposure is still fairly low compared to other sector weights and I'm hoping to use puts to
purchase more shares.
This was a good month as I received dividends from AT&T, one of my larger holdings and I got a nice increase from Realty Income as
I purchased more shares in January.
By reinvesting the dividends, or capital gains, you can
purchase more shares of the business without paying any fees or commissions to brokers... The first share has to be purchased through a broker, but with a DRIP (dividend) reinvestment plan) all future profits may be reinvested automatically with out paying broker fees to purchase shares on your behalf.
You purchase more shares when prices are low and fewer shares when prices are higher.
I use them to
purchase more shares, so at $ 30 per share I can purchase an additional 3.33 shares and now have a total of 103.33 shares of Monk Mart.
You can either accept this additional income in the form of a check, or you can reinvest the money back into the company, in which you will be
purchasing more shares.
An interesting fact is that when there is a substantial sum in the dividend return many investors will then turn the investment around and
purchase more shares to add to the every growing portfolio.
And second, you can sell shares of the funds that did very well to
purchase more shares of the funds that did not.
If you reinvest those dividends by using them to
purchase more shares of stock, your long - term return will increase.
Since you invest the same amount each month,
you purchase more shares when cheaper and less when more expensive.
Last week,
I purchased more shares of PG not only for my public Dividend Growth Portfolio but also for my wife's and my «Perpetual Dividend Portfolio» that is helping to fund our retirement.
What I decided to do this time is to
purchase more shares of a stock I already own: Phillip Morris International (PM).
DRIP is a Dividend ReInvestment Plan and it is available through your broker to automatically
purchases more share or fractional shares at the time of payout.
However, if an investor is seeking to
purchase more shares with optional cash payments on top of their dividends, a DRIP may not be the best choice.
The dividends that would normally be received as cash are instead used to
purchase more shares.
The one weird thing I've noticed, though, is that whenever
I purchase more shares, the purchase shows up in my e-Series account within a couple of days but the money isn't actually withdrawn from my bank for two to three weeks.