Sentences with phrase «year as a dividend investor»

As my first year as a dividend investor has come to a close, December was the best month ever for me with $ 363 dollars in dividends, an 81 % increase over December of 2013.

Not exact matches

Samsung said it would double dividends next year to 9.6 trillion won and keep them at that level until 2020, as it responds to investor pressure to share its vast cash reserves and catch up with some of its more generous peers.

Buffett's prediction concerned what magnitude of total returns — stock appreciation plus reinvested dividends — U.S. investors would reap in the 17 years that began as 1999 was moving to its close.

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.

Some analysts predict the company could send as much as $ 180 billion to investors through stock buybacks and dividend increases over the next two and a half years, on top of the $ 300 billion it has already authorized.

As the network notes, risk - averse investors prefer dividend stocks, which are common in pensions and mutual funds even though they've largely underperformed other market indexes over the past four years.

If you are the kind of income investor who's happy with dividends that are steady and can grow year after year, or even decades, and don't care as much about yields — 3M yields 2.3 % currently — 3M is a right fit for your portfolio.

So if a company pays out dividends for several consecutive years it's a good sign as they likely value their investors, act in their best interest and also have a healthy business that generates profits.

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.

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.

Against the average investor return of just 2.6 % annually over the ten years through 2013, I would be happy with the dividend fund if it just made the same return as the general stock market.

That's not bad, but not nearly as much as the investor who had reinvested his 20 years dividends, who would receive almost double that amount, at $ 1789.

Fortunately for investors, GM has generated a cumulative $ 16 billion in free cash flow over the past four years, more than enough to cover its 4 % dividend yield, as shown in Figure 4.

This isn't a problem for investors with long time horizons (say 10 + years to retirement) or large enough portfolios to live entirely off dividends, but if your portfolio is small and you need to periodically sell shares to fund living expenses (such as with the 4 % rule), then this short to medium - term risk is something to be aware of as you think about portfolio diversification.

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.

So if a company pays out dividends for several consecutive years it's a good sign as they likely value their investors, act in their best interest and also have a healthy business that generates profits.

Although DRIP investors collect their dividends in the form of new shares, they still get a T3 slip every year and must pay tax as though they received them in cash.

Relatively low but not surprising given an 8 year bull market that has increased stock prices, as well as the current low interest rate environment (which means that companies don't need to pay high dividends to attract investors).

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

The only thing that is risk - free in the stock market is a dividend that has already been paid — As many investors saw in 2008, even companies with track records spanning 100 years can collapse.

As most investors are aware, in order to be classified as a Dividend Champion / Aristocrat a company must meet the stern test of consecutively increasing their dividend for 25 years or longeAs most investors are aware, in order to be classified as a Dividend Champion / Aristocrat a company must meet the stern test of consecutively increasing their dividend for 25 years or longeas a Dividend Champion / Aristocrat a company must meet the stern test of consecutively increasing their dividend for 25 years orDividend Champion / Aristocrat a company must meet the stern test of consecutively increasing their dividend for 25 years ordividend for 25 years or longer.

As one of the Dividend Kings — companies that have raised their dividend for at least 50 years in a row — the company's shares are beloved by many income focused retail inDividend Kings — companies that have raised their dividend for at least 50 years in a row — the company's shares are beloved by many income focused retail individend for at least 50 years in a row — the company's shares are beloved by many income focused retail investors.

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.

More so, after seeing their portfolios halved in two market busts in less than 15 years, investors are embracing dividends as the only certainty in meeting their financial goals.

For many years, active fund managers and institutional investors have often used a factor - based approach either to strategically construct portfolios or to tilt their portfolios toward well - known risk factors, such as low volatility, value, momentum, dividend, size, and quality, to capture the factor risk premium.

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.

What I really care about as a dividend investor who wants income is that I get $ 206 per year on my initial investment.

That was decided 50 years ago in a paper and never been questioned since by two professors, Modigliani and Miller, who said dividend policies should be irrelevant to the stock price, because investors, as I just explained to you, can create their own self - dividend and the price drops by the amount of the dividend.

As an example, an investor buys a preferred stock when the dividend payment is $ 10 per year.

After 10 years, Treasury investors, assuming they can reinvest their coupon payments at 2.1 %, will end up with about $ 23 in return for each $ 100 invested... If we consider that dividends increase by an average of 5 % a year — as they have for the past half century — stock investors will earn $ 35 per $ 100 invested, even in a flat market.»

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?

Many of these stocks were darlings of the dividend income investors and may have lost shine as their dividends came under pressure in the last couple of 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 Stock Investor Pro currently only provides seven years» worth of financial data, we looked for stocks that paid a dividend for each of the last seven years and that have not decreased their dividend over the last seven years.

As investors seek higher and higher dividends these days, telephone stocks have seen their biggest surge in more than seven years, making these companies some of the most popular investments around.

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.

As per the BSE website, constituents of Bharat 22 Index are generating 2.21 % dividend yield for its investors based on the dividends paid in the last one year.

I hope that in future years, the tax cut trickles through as higher dividend payments for us dividend stock investors.

2.21 % Dividend Yield — As per the BSE website, constituents of Bharat 22 Index are generating 2.21 % dividend yield for its investors based on the dividends paid in the last oDividend Yield — As per the BSE website, constituents of Bharat 22 Index are generating 2.21 % dividend yield for its investors based on the dividends paid in the last odividend yield for its investors based on the dividends paid in the last one year.

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.

I didn't focus on the dividend above, as: i) it's already well established, ii) it would take 16 bloody years to absorb / pay out cash / investments on hand, and iii) for whatever reason, it clearly isn't attracting any buying interest from dividend investors..!

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.

Dividend Diplomats recently bought 38 positions, Dividend Mantra considered it as the best stock idea for this year, Sure Dividend examined it for DGI Investors and many other bloggers have also recently bought it.

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.