Category: Dividends
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Saturday, June 09, 2012
Five Dividend Paying Tech Stocks for Investing 2012 / Companies / Dividends
By: Fast_Graphs
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
By: Charles_Carnevale
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
By: Money_Morning
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
By: Charles_Carnevale
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.
Friday, May 04, 2012
Five Healthy Dividend Growth Stocks to Cure What Ails Your Portfolio / Companies / Dividends
By: Fast_Graphs
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.
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
The Dividend Aristocrats Found The Lost Decade / Companies / Dividends
By: Charles_Carnevale
There are many people who continue to hold a jaundiced view of stocks because they were traumatized by the last two recessions. Precipitous drops in equity prices drove them to distrust stocks and stock markets. However, I believe that most of the negative sentiment is a function of what I would describe as vague ideas about what really happened. A lot has to do with many investors failing to recognize, or make the important distinctions, that were the true causes of our last two market crashes.
Monday, April 30, 2012
How to Build a Small Fortune with Dividend Reinvestment Plans / Portfolio / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
The real secret to long-term investing success is income - and with stocks, that means dividends.
Numerous studies, both academic and financial, have found dividends accounted for more than 60% of total U.S. stock market returns since 1870.
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Monday, March 26, 2012
How to Buy Foreign Market Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
There's nothing better than buying stocks with strong upside and getting paid with cold, hard cash.
It's true here in the United States and in foreign markets all around the world.
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Thursday, March 22, 2012
How to Pick Winning Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Do you need more income? Join the crowd.
It seems everyone is scouring the landscape these days for decent income investments to beef up their monthly take-home - especially now with the price of gas and other everyday items skyrocketing.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
New Apple Dividend Will Help Push Share Prices Higher / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
David Zeiler writes:
A new Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) dividend will make the stock even more attractive while expanding the pool of potential investors.
Apple announced Monday that starting in September, it will pay a $2.65 quarterly dividend.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Higher Bank Dividend Payments Would Relieve Shareholder Stress / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
The real winner in last week's bank stress tests should have been the shareholders.
But after the stress test results on 19 top financial institutions were announced last week and all but four of them passed, shareholders with bank dividends were left wanting more.
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Monday, March 05, 2012
I'm an Apple Stock Investor, I Want a Dividend / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson wries: Now that their stock is up more than 20-fold in the last ten years, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) investors have had a wonderful ride.
On top of that the company has amassed a $97.5 billion cash hoard that would be the envy of any small nation.
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
Emerging Market Dividend Stocks Give Investors the Best of Both Worlds / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes:
In today's market, dividend investing is the best way to achieve a decent income stream without taking on too much risk.
On the other hand, this is also true: emerging markets give investors the benefit of the world's fastest economic growth.
Investors would be wise then to combine these two strategies by buying emerging markets stocks that pay steady dividends.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
The Most Powerful Investment Strategy of All-Time / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Steve Christ writes:
It has been called the "royal road to riches."
Starting with just $10,000 and a small monthly contribution, any investor can use this method to create their own golden parachute - a million-dollar retirement portfolio.
All you need is time.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
The Only New Dividend Aristocrat Stock You Should Buy Today / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Kerri Shannon writes:
If you are looking for a steady stream of safe dividends in today's troubled markets, the list of "Dividend Aristocrats" is a good place to start.
Compiled and tracked by Standard & Poor's, Dividend Aristocrats are companies that have consistently increased their dividend payouts for 25 consecutive years.
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Thursday, January 19, 2012
How to Safely Double Your Dividend Income Yield With Covered Call Options / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Larry D. Spears writes:
As it turns out, despite the summer swoon, income investors were the big winners in 2011.
While the Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the year with a gain of just 5.5%, the 100 highest-yielding stocks tracked by the Dow Jones - as measured by the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend ETF (NYSE: DVY) - returned a market beating 11.73%.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
How to Win Bernanke's War on Savers with a 19% Interest Rate Yield / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Martin Hutchinson writes: There is no other way to put this... With his zero interest rate policy (ZIRP), U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has declared a virtual war on the nation's savers.
That's why savings-conscious investors have been forced out into the markets these days in search of higher yields.
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Thursday, January 12, 2012
Four Dividend Stocks to Put Money in Your Pocket / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Don Miller writes:
Anxiety over the European debt crisis and distrust in the markets drove volatility in global stock markets to dizzying heights in 2011. The intense level of chaos, and record low bond yields, sent investors scrambling for stocks that deliver steady returns in the form of dividends.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Ways To Add Income to Your Portfolio as a Currency Investor / Companies / Dividends
By: Money_Morning
Sean Hyman writes:
For the past 30 years, my grandfather has been living the retirement dream, thanks to a few strategic stock plays.
Here's the interesting part: My grandfather never knew a thing about stocks. He didn't know how to value them, or when to buy and sell.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Beat Inflation and a Down Market With Dividend Stocks / Companies / Dividends
By: Investment_U
Marc Lichtenfeld writes:
The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco issued a report predicting stock prices could fall 13 percent in the next decade.
That would be some accomplishment. I’m not sure if the researchers who issued the report are aware that they’re predicting the fifth-worst 10-year performance by the market in the last 74 years. The four worst: the 10-year periods ending in the years 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1940 – all time frames that were impacted by the Great Depression.
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