Category: Dividends
The analysis published under this category are as follows.Thursday, October 04, 2012
International Dividend Stock Plays to Hedge Against a Weak U.S. Dollar / Companies / Dividends
Politics and investing rarely mix well. That’s worth keeping in mind as election-year rhetoric heats up this month. But no matter who wins the White House and Congress in November, investors should have money beyond the dollar.
Foreign-based power, pipeline, communications and water companies are the ideal vehicles. Not only do you benefit from countries growing faster than the US. They also pay dividends and are priced in currencies other than the US dollar, so the buck’s loss is US investors’ gain.
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Thursday, October 04, 2012
Apple Stock Dividends Fueling Distribution Growth For Select Sector SPDR / Companies / Dividends
In August, Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) Board of Directors shared the company’s enormous wealth with investors, paying a dividend of $2.65 per share, its first such payment in 17 years. Owners of Technology Select Sector SPDR (NYSE: XLK), will be getting their cut.
When the dividend was paid on August 13, more than 20 percent of the fund’s assets were allocated to Apple. As a result, Technology Select Sector SPDR received a payout of $8.4 million that will ultimately be distributed to shareholders.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Taxmageddon 2013 Hits Dividend Income Hard – Here's What to Do / Companies / Dividends
Larry D. Spears writes: Every dividend investor loves the arrival of those quarterly distribution checks. But thanks to "Taxmageddon 2013" those checks could get a whole lot smaller.
As things currently stand - with higher tax brackets, no extension of the Bush-era tax cuts and the addition of new levies on higher-income payers to fund Obamacare - the tax bite on some dividend payments could rise from as little as 15% to as high as 43.4%.
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Monday, September 10, 2012
Dividend Stocks that Offer Both Growth and Big Yields / Companies / Dividends
By Martin Hutchinson writes: I want to let you in on a little secret: You really can enjoy the best of both worlds.
With a little bit of digging, you can uncover companies that not only offer growth but pay good dividends as well.
Now admittedly, there has always been something of a perceived conflict between the two.
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Wednesday, September 05, 2012
You Can't Beat the Juicy Dividend Yields Offered By These Global Giants / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: Dividend investors have something of a problem if they'd like to invest internationally: there are actually very few foreign companies that pay really juicy dividends.
What's more, few of those have fully listed ADRs, so their shares can be very thinly traded.
That leaves income investors in a bit of a quandary since that's where the majority of the growth is found.
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Friday, August 31, 2012
Three Stocks for Yield Starved Investors / Companies / Dividends
Keith Fitz-Gerald writes: My dad held up his hands and shrugged his shoulders. "But what can I do in a yield-starved environment?" he asked.
"Plenty, actually," I told him.
In fact, there are a wide-range of choices available for income-hungry investors who are struggling to overcome the Fed's disastrous zero-interest rate policies.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
Dividend Paying Growth Stocks Can Provide Retirees Great Total Returns / Companies / Dividends
When people talk about dividend paying stocks, their focus is often on the dividend income they provide. This is especially true for the investors that fancy themselves purists as dividend growth investors, who seemingly care more about their dividends than they do their capital. However, this article intends to illustrate that dividend growth stocks are not only great income vehicles for retirees; they can also be terrific vehicles for providing total return.
However, to understand this fully you must first consider that dividend paying common stocks come in all sizes, shapes and flavors. Therefore, some are better for current yield, some are better for a growing income stream and others offer the total package of growth and income. Furthermore, there are many nuances and degrees of growth and/or income that various classes of dividend paying stocks possess. In other words, you can’t paint all dividend growth stocks with the same general brush.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Dividends Provide An Stock Investors Return Bonus / InvestorEducation / Dividends
With all things being equal, dividend paying common stocks provide their shareholders a return bonus, or what some might like to call a kicker, over an equivalent common stock that pays no dividend. Many investors do not see it this way, as they tend to think of the dividend providing them their return. However, the stock market capitalizes earnings whether a company pays a dividend or not. Moreover, we contend that the market will value a given company’s earnings based on their past and future prospects for growth, again, regardless of whether a dividend is paid or not.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
How to Be Safely Diversified and Earn Hefty Dividend Yields / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: If you're not at all concerned about yield, diversified income investing is easy.
The market is full consumer goods companies offering 3-4% yields some of which have staggering records of dividend increases for 30, 40 or even 50 years.
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Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Share Buybacks are Dangerous for Your Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: Many investment advisers like to recommend stocks with large buyback programs. A buyback, they argue, is like some sort of magical panacea.
It allows companies to invest in themselves which pushes the share price higher.
On the face of it, the premise seems logical enough. But the reality is that it's not quite that simple.
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Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Stocks to Avoid At All Costs, Don't Fall For High Dividend Yield Traps / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: Buying stocks with high dividend yields is an excellent way to invest. But it's not fool-proof.
In fact, if you shop by yield and yield alone, you're playing a dangerous game. It's called picking up nickels in front of a steamroller.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
How to Boost Your Income in a World Where a Six Figure Salary No Longer Cuts It / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: It may sound impressive, but a $100,000 salary isn't all it's cracked up to be. What would have cost you $100,000 in 1976 would cost you a whopping $380,000 today.
And that's just adjusting for inflation...
In fact, to get the same benefit from a "six-figure salary" that you would've earned in yesteryear, you'd need to make about $250,000 today.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Six Dividend Stocks to Hold Forever / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: Investor. Now there's a word you don't hear much these days. "Buy and hold," they tell us, has gone the way of the dinosaur.
Today, it's all about the fast money. In the market, out of the market... this stock, that stock...
Of course, that's perfectly fine for traders. The good ones earn small fortunes that way. But for folks who don't have that kind of experience, being nimble is simply an invitation to be whipsawed by the markets.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Prepare Your Stocks Portfolio for Recession 2012 with Dividend Payers / Companies / Dividends
Martin Hutchinson writes: Successful investing is a bit like connecting the dots. Put enough of them together and they begin to form a picture.
Unfortunately, today's dots are pointing towards a recession.
With first-quarter GDP growth under 2% and a whole host of indicators moving in the wrong direction, it looks as though the U.S. economy has stalled.
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Thursday, June 21, 2012
The Best of the Best Dividend-Paying Stocks / Companies / Dividends
Ben Gersten writes: Over the past few years there have been unprecedented swings in the major indexes, scaring some investors out of the markets altogether.
What people don't realize is that successful investing is a matter of continuous performance, not instantaneous performance.
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Saturday, June 09, 2012
Five Dividend Paying Tech Stocks for Investing 2012 / Companies / Dividends
Here are five technology-oriented companies that are currently trading at a price earnings ratio that implies that the stocks are attractively valued. Each of these five companies currently offers a dividend yield that is above-average as represented by the S&P 500.
The following table summarizes five technology-oriented companies that appear to be attractively valued, and lists them in order of dividend yield highest to lowest. From left to right, the table shows the company's stock symbol and name. Next the company's historical EPS growth followed by the estimated EPS growth. Next you will find the current PE ratio followed by the historical normal PE ratio for perspective. Then the 5-year estimated annual total return, followed by dividend yield for each company. The final three columns show the company sector, debt, and its market cap.
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Thursday, May 24, 2012
Blue-chip Dividend Growth Stocks Today’s Strong Option for Retirement Portfolios Part 2 / Companies / Dividends
In part one of this two-part series (Found Here) I laid the groundwork for why I believe that blue-chip dividend paying US equities represent not only a viable, but also a safer investment choice than many give them credit for. I also pointed out why I believe the risk profile on bonds is currently upside down, arguing that for one of the few times in history they may actually be more dangerous an investment than equities.
This is not normal, and therefore, I believe requires looking at investment choices differently than we traditionally have. I once read a comment from the renowned spiritual leader Dr. Wayne Dyer that summarizes my point quite nicely: "when you change the way you look at things the things you look at change." In today's investment environment I think we need to change the way we look at bonds and simultaneously change the way we look at equities. At least temporarily regarding bonds, until interest rates normalize, which I believe they eventually will. But perhaps we should change the way we look at equities more permanently.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Dividend Stocks: How to Soften the Bear's Short-Term Bite / Stock-Markets / Dividends
Larry D. Spears writes: For investors, May started out as a month of great promise. On May 1, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 65.69 points, closing at 13,279.
Since then, however, that promise has turned to plummet.
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Blue-Chip Dividend Growth Stocks Are Today’s Strong Option For Retirement Portfolios / Companies / Dividends
There is a confluence of factors that are painting a very odd picture of current investor behavior. Common sense and a careful analysis of the market dynamics between equities and bonds today would indicate that investors should be acting in the exact opposite manner than they are. Interest rates are hovering at a 100-year low, which creates two problems for investors. First, there is not enough return from bonds to fund a retiree’s income needs or to fight inflation. Second, investing in bonds with interest rates so low makes it riskier to own bonds today than it has been in over a century.
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Friday, May 04, 2012
Five Healthy Dividend Growth Stocks to Cure What Ails Your Portfolio / Companies / Dividends
These five above-average growing opportunities in the healthcare sector provide dividend growth investors potential alternatives to the traditional large-cap pharmaceuticals. This is a high quality group of healthcare companies that possess above-average growth potential plus an above-average dividend yield that is expected to grow at above-average future rates. Consequently, we believe these candidates offer the total package. We believe that each of these nontraditional healthcare opportunities are attractively valued, provide an attractive dividend, and the opportunity for above-average total return.
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