A recent article at SmartMoney focuses on 3 Stocks With Affordable 4% Yields. By “affordable” the article is referring to the companies’ abilities to pay their dividends while still having enough cash to pay for other expenses and investments - a sign that the dividends are likely to be safe.
The stocks - which include [...]
It’s always interesting to read Jeremy Grantham’s latest thoughts on the market. In his just published Q4 2009 letter (embedded below) he reiterates his view that the market, as represented by the S&P 500, is worth only 850 and that any advance from current levels will make it “seriously overpriced.”
Still, he says, the high-quality component [...]
A recent post at the dividend investing blog Dividends Value lists the author’s choices for the 10 Best U.S. Dividend Stocks. Not surprisingly these include such stellar dividend payers as Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, 3M and Abbott Laboratories to name a few, as well as four honorable mentions.
The post goes on to [...]
In an article just posted at TheStockAdvisors.com, investment advisory service IQ Trends offers a look at its current “Timely Ten” high-quality dividend-paying stocks. According to IQ Trends, these are “undervalued” stocks offering good long-term dividend growth, an S&P dividend and earnings quality rating of A- or better, and low debt and payout ratios, as well [...]
Widely recognized by its AFLAC duck brand icon, this health and life insurance provider has, like most financials, recently seen its stock (AFL: 52.09 -0.72%, yld: 2.13%) badly beaten down in the market on fears of “toxic” assets exposure - in this case hybrid securities issued by European financial institutions - and associated ratings downgrades. [...]
While surveying the investing landscape for worthwhile dividend investments I seem to keep running across certain names more than others. One of those is the 3M Company (MMM: 80.85 -0.87%, yld: 2.52%) - a self-described diversified technology company with businesses in everything from materials and manufacturing to electronics and health care.
But, most important to me, [...]
A list of 10 dividend stocks with 50+ years of consecutive increases has been compiled by Dividends Value. It includes such recognizable names as Procter & Gamble (PG: 62.99 -0.03%, yld: 2.79%) and 3M (MMM: 80.85 -0.87%, yld: 2.52%), as well as some that are less familiar like Dover Corp. (DOV: 46.02 -0.67%, yld: [...]
Few things will cause dividend investors to immediately sell a stock, but a dividend cut is one of them. So when pharmaceutical behemoth Pfizer (PFE: 17.202 +0.30%, yld: 3.85%) recently announced that it was halving its annual dividend to $0.64 to help finance its acquisition of Wyeth (WYE: 50.39 0.00%, yld: 2.38%), the stock was [...]
According to a recent article in The New York Times, the inflation-adjusted S&P 500 has never seen a 10-year period as bad as the one that ended last month.
Even after reinvesting the dividends, S&P 500 investors would have ended up losing about 5.1% a year - worse than the 4.3% compounded annual loss in the [...]
A couple of years ago analysts were falling all over themselves recommending General Electric (GE: 16.41 -0.61%, yld: 2.42%) - the quintessential ultra-conservative blue-chip dividend payer. I recall one money manager on Consuelo Mack WealthTrack recommending it as the “one investment” that everyone should have in their portfolio, with words to the effect that [...]
