Tracking Dividend Hikes Is Not Easy But it Can Be Done
Dividend hikes happen at different times for different companies and there is really no set schedule for when a company decides to do it. That being said, a company will often increase its dividend during a specific quarter of each year when they announce their quarterly financials (i.e. 3rd quarter financial results). After you have [...]
Looking For Dividend Growth in the Future
Dividend growth is one of the most important metrics for a dividend investor (IMHO). The dividend growth rate that has occurred in the past can tell a great story for the investor who is searching for passive income at some point in the future. Looking at annual reports, an investor can quickly see what the [...]
Fewer Firms Offering Dividend Payouts
An article posted over at the WSJ presented this chart that highlights the declining payout ratio that companies have been historically paying to investors. However, the article the goes on to elaborate that companies are missing the boat as the number of baby-boomers who will require income from their portfolio gets stronger year after year, [...]
Reaching for Yield Is Not a Good Strategy
I often get asked why some of the holdings in my portfolio have such low dividend yields. If I am such a proponent of dividend investing, why then am I not sporting a 5 to 6% average dividend yield in my portfolio. Rather than struggle to frame a response in my own words, I thought [...]
Watching Dividend Payments Grow
I feel like I have been talking about this a lot lately, but I was entering some dividend payments I recently received into Microsoft Money and say the dramatic effect of reinvesting dividend payments. I am going to take one of my stocks as an example and show you what has happened over time. The [...]
GE Raises Dividend for 31 Consecutive Year
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 [...]
