Many investors like or prefer dividends. Beyond dividends, they specifically like DIVIDEND GROWTH stocks. What is a dividend growth stock? They are are stocks that have been regularly growing their dividends. Preferably at a level above inflation. Normally above 3%. If you had one stock with a dividend growth of 8% and another with a…
Today I’m going to share some Dividend Growers that have double digit dividend growth over the 1 year and 5 year marks. In addition, the majority of them have a payout ratio under 50%. A low payout ratio allows companies to continue to grow their dividends at higher rates. On the other hand, please keep…
Tracking your Dividends Do you want to keep up with your dividends in an easy & free way? There is no need to set up your own Excel Spreadsheet to do this. Enter TrackYourDividends.com. I personally used an Excel spreadsheet for years. It works, but putting in things manually and constantly updating is a lot…
Top Dividend Focused ETFs Compared / SCHD or VYM Table of Contents: Brief History of Schwab and Vanguard Charles Schwab is in the top 10 largest banking institutions in America, with over 8 trillion in assets for clients. Schwab was founded in the early 1970’s. Vanguard is of course one of the longest running and…
Some of the stocks in my portfolio function primarily as cash flow or dividend stocks. Ennis is one I’ve had in my portfolio off and on for a number of years. I’ve bought and held it for awhile, then sold when I felt it got overvalued. A few months back, I bought in again at…
Blue Chip Dividend Stock Picks for 2022 Here are my Blue Chip stock picks for 2022, each of them pay a dividend of 1.5% or more. Rather than pick only high yielding stocks, I chose those with relatively low payout ratios and somewhat reasonable valuations. Lower payout ratios ensure that the companies will continue to…
Eligibility requirements for Qualified Dividend status? 1)Fulfill the holding period. You have to hold the stock for over sixty days during a 121 day period that starts 60 days before ex-dividend. One small technical here is that the day you buy the stock is not included in this calculation; however, the day you sell the…
Here are my DIVIDENDS for the month of May. If you’d like to compare to last month, here you go: First up is my BROKERAGE account, here they are: Putnam Municipal Income Closed End Fund paid me 0.13 cents. Ha, if you haven’t seen my post before, I bought into this over a year ago…
Here are my DIVIDENDS for the month of April: 1)Macy’s-I sold out of Macy’s a while back but for some reason I’m still getting dividends. Hey no arguments. Macy’s paid me $4.53 2)Eastman Chemicals paid me $33.00 3)Schneider Trucking paid me .91 cents 4)QQQ $1.45 So as you can see not a WHOLE LOT in…
I will preface this article by stating I do a good bit of “Dividend Investing.” At the same time, it is not all I do. One common argument by dividend investors is that by focusing on Dividends, you are more protected during a market correction, recession or bear market. How has that technique faired in…
While I said I was working on REDUCING positions, I managed to INCREASE positions. I guess the deals got too good. I started a small position in HOME DEPOT. I do feel it can go a little lower here but Home Depot will be fine long-term and I thought it was a good chance to…
Ok, it is that time again. Time to look at my dividend returns for the month. Let me start off by saying I got 33.9% more dividend income this quarter than I did 3 quarters ago (same companies reporting). I went from $76. 32 to $102.19; I’m certainly pleased. Here are the six sources of…
I recently began supercharging my portfolio with more growth and tech stocks. Fortinet had an earnings report today. How did it do? Fortinet beat earnings and revenue. A 21% increase in revenue year over year here. Earnings of .76 vs. .59 from this quarter a year ago. So, that is looking pretty awesome here. Gross…
Okay, it’s that time again. My January Dividend Report along with some notes on Dividends: Brokerage Account AEO $22.96 PMM (Putnam Municipal CEF) $7.36 SNDR $3.30 Macy’s $4.53 Eastman Chemicals $33 Quest Diagnostics $4.08 Leggett and Platt $14 Total = $89.23. If we look at three months back ago (same companies last report) we see…
As you can see above, the price has run away from the earnings. Oddly enough, back in Q1 of 2019 we saw the opposite, EPS ran away from the share price. It’s like Apple stock is lagging it’s earnings a couple of quarters. Q1 it was undervalued and now overvalued on an earnings perspective. 4.14%…