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 [...]
A recent post at ModernGraham - a site devoted to the study of the security analysis methods of value investing pioneer Benjamin Graham - highlights “10 Dividend Companies for the Enterprising Investor”. These are the top 10 dividend stocks in the site’s database with the highest dividend yield that are considered suitable for “enterprising” [...]
A while back I posted an example of how money managers can be hazardous to your financial health. Now Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s Mad Money, has provided us with a more recent example of how blindly following financial “experts” can prove costly (and confusing).
In this case it involves his recommendation(s) on Lockheed Martin (LMT: [...]
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 addition to earnings, one of the things that determines a company’s ability to keep paying a dividend is its level of free cash flow - the cash that a company has left over after paying its required operating expenses. With that in mind, a recent article in SmartMoney looked at “3 Stocks With [...]
Dividends Value notes three companies that raised their dividends this week - one of them a financial! Here’s my quick take on the three dividend stocks mentioned (the stars represent Dividendinvestor.com’s star ranking system - three stars are five years of consecutive dividend increases, four stars are ten, and five stars are 20):
Hatteras Financial (HTS: [...]
Top yielding electric utility stocks are the subject of a post today at Stockerblog. Three utility stocks in particular are mentioned - none of which, unfortunately, are going to make it on to my active watchlist.
Here’s my quick take on the three utility stocks mentioned (the stars represent Dividendinvestor.com’s star ranking system - three stars [...]
In its April issue, Forbes highlights some dividend stock picks of Paul Davis, co-manager of the Schwab Dividend Equity fund. Surprisingly (or maybe not) he’s willing to buy into - or hold onto - stocks of companies that have cut their dividends.
His thinking? In these especially tough times a dividend cut today may mean a [...]
As a dividend investor, I often focus on companies that have a demonstrated history of dividend growth, like the Dividend Aristocrats. As wonderful as many of these investments are, and may continue to be, I often wonder which companies will join that elite group in the next ten, twenty or thirty years?
Dividend Tree was [...]
When it comes to dependable dividends, utility stocks are often the first investments that come to mind - but even those haven’t been a safe haven lately. But a just-posted article by Bullish Bankers sifts through the sector to find five utility stocks with dividends you can count on.
Here’s my quick take on the five [...]
