Sentences with phrase «year as a dividend growth investor»

2015 was a wonderful year and I'm looking forward to my first full year as a dividend growth investor.

My first year as a dividend growth investor has been a mixed bag.

2015 was a wonderful year and I'm looking forward to my first full year as a dividend growth investor.

Not exact matches

As a dividend growth investor, you can look at several metrics to evaluate the performance of a stock over the last months, years or even decades.

No big deal, as you mentioned, since I'm still showing a double digit year over year gain on the whole and that's the point of being a dividend growth investor.

To what extent do you view your investing life as an extension of your personal life?By that I mean to what extent do the personal morals and ethical values of Tim the man govern the investing decisions of Tim the dividend growth investor?If you ask your typical dividend growth investor if they would be willing to invest in a lucrative but immoral venture, say selling child pornography or crack cocaine, the answer would probably be «absolutely not» regardless of the yield, valuation or growth prospects of the underlying venture.And yet, ask that same investor what their thoughts are about Phillip Morris and they would probably describe what a wonderful investment it is and go on about why you should own it.Do your personal morals ever come into play when buying companies, or do you compartmentalize your conscience, wall it off from the part of your brain that thinks about investments, and make your investing decisions based on the financial prospects of the company?The reason why I'm asking is that I keep identifying stocks of companies that I love from an investing perspective but despise on a human level.I can not in good conscience own any piece of Phillip Morris knowing the impact that smoking related illness has on the families of smokers.You might say that the smoker made his choice to smoke so you don't mind taking his money, but his children never made that choice and they are the ones who will suffer when he dies 20 years too soon.

As a dividend growth investor myself, I have made apple by far my largest holding over the last few years.

This translates into investors getting paid 100 % of net earnings as dividends and somewhat predictable dividend growth, since the parent company is slowly getting a little bigger each year.

Dividends: As I mentioned last month, for many dividend growth investors, the March, June, September, and December months are the largest of the year.

(ETF Trends: Aug 18, 2016) ETF Trends noted the popularity of the dividend growth style this year, saying investors «need not limit themselves to domestic markets as there are international dividend growth strategies as well.»

His style of investing represents more of a dividend growth investor than a «Focus» investor as when he started over 50 years ago.

The companies we're interested in as dividend growth investors are companies that have adopted a policy of increasing their dividend every year.

However, with slowing growth due to consumers moving away from their core products as a result of the healthy living trend, should investors continue to count on Coca - Cola to deliver higher dividends for them over the next 54 years?

This launches a new growth phase that's long been anticipated by investors — actually, they can have their cake & eat it here, as management also committed to returning up to EUR 1 billion to shareholders (via buybacks & special dividends) over the next 2 years.

As a dividend growth investor, I took advantage of T's fair valuation last year to purchase shares that I intend to hold for the long term.

Dividend re-investment plan can be useful if the investor is in 30 % tax bracket and investing in debt funds for a horizon of less than 3 years as in this case he has to pay 28.84 % tax opposed to 30 % tax of growth option.

February marked a great start of the year for dividend growth investors as companies lay out the financial plans for the year and start returning more cash to shareholders.

In 2 years, the UK Value Investor Model Portfolio received a dividend return of 7.9 %, capital gains from the growth of the company of 33.4 %, and an additional capital gain of 5.9 % as the shares were re-rated upwards.

Assuming Duke Energy's growth projects go as expected and deliver 4 - 6 % annual earnings growth, investors should be safe to assume about 4 % annual dividend growth the next few years.