You can now screen for dividend stocks using the Motley Fool’s CAPS rating system as a screening criterion. The new CAPS stock screener includes the CAPS rating along with many of the usual financial metrics, and offers preset configurations for “Value,” “Dividend,” “Small Cap,” and “High Growth.” In today’s article on “5 Dynamic Dividend Stocks,” [...]
An article just posted by Dividends Value offers an instructive look at how to evaluate companies to see if they’re likely to sustain and grow their dividends (see “In Dividend Investing, Cash Is King“). Two companies – Genuine Parts [[GPC]] and General Electric [[GE]] – are compared with respect to free cash flow, cash flow [...]
As today’s widely predicted dividend cut by Alcoa [[AA]] shows, it’s not especially difficult these days to identify companies who are about to slash their dividends. But what about predicting the companies who are about to raise their dividends? David Peltier, manager of the Dividend Stock Advisor, does just that in the following short video [...]
Looking for signs of a bottom? How about when the author of a book championing buy-and-hold dividend investing throws in the towel and sells everything he has in his retirement income portfolio? Derek Foster – who retired several years ago at age 34 to live off his investments – has done just that. The author [...]
In an interview in Barron’s this week, Judith Saryan, a co-manager of the Eaton Vance Dividend Income Fund [[EDIAX]] offered a half dozen of her favorite dividend stocks (see below), based on the cash on their balance sheets, cash flow, and the amount and maturity of debt they had coming due. Here’s my quick take [...]
