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 [...]
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 Heaps [...]
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 [...]
