I passed a bit of a milestone in my dividend accounts this past week. Although it was not an official goal, it is one of those items that you notice if you analyze your portfolio enough. As I wrote about a few posts ago, I keep pretty good track of my dividend yield […]
As you may already know, I enjoy Michael Sivy’s column over at Money.com. He has a long term view of the stock market and tends to focus on the bug, dividend increasing companies that I favor.
What Sivy emphasizes about the stock today is the low P/E ratio and the high dividend yield:
The bottom line […]
Another good day for my dividend paying investments. GE today announced that they would be raising their dividend:
…the GE Board of Directors raised the Company’s quarterly dividend 12% from $0.25 per outstanding share to $0.28 per outstanding share of its common stock, for a full-year total dividend of $1.12, up from the current $1.00 […]
In my opinion, the number one enemy of a long term investor (or short term for that matter) is a number of psychological factors that inhibit our ability to make rationale and correct decisions when it comes to our investments. One of the books I am reading, Predicting the Markets of Tomorrow by James […]