Dividend Stocks ( General Discussions )

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4 High-Performing Stocks to Buy for Their Special Dividends

Don't just look at their special dividends; consider their index-beating performance too

By Will Ashworth

Source: Investor Place

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10 Dividend Stocks Increasing Payouts – PEP PSX BAX CAH CA TSCO RGR NHC MAN CPPL PEP, RGR among the biggest dividend boosters this past week

Source: Simply Safe Dividends

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9 Low-Risk, High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Buy

Get defensive and fend off volatility with these big, healthy dividends

By Jeff Reeves

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/05/9-low- ... zp9Z5F96M8

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5 Dow Jones Dividend Stocks With Sweet (And Sweetening!) Yields

These three stocks yield 3% or more, and they've recently upped the ante to boot

By Chris Katje

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/05/5-dow- ... 0rdPJF96M8

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6 Dividend Stocks Increasing Payouts – LOW HP CBRL MBFI ESRT JHI

LOW, HP among the most notable dividend stocks raising their payouts over the last week

Source: Simply Safe Dividends

http://investorplace.com/2016/06/6-divi ... 1KJZZF96M8

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5 Can’t-Miss Dividend Stocks to Buy

Whether it's because of serial dividend increases or growth potential on the side, these dividend stocks stand out from the pack

By Aaron Levitt

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/06/5-cant ... 1YJGJF96M8

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Dividends: They Matter, A Lot

By Charles Sizemore'

I like getting paid in cold, hard cash. And frankly, who doesn’t?

But stock dividends are more than just a quarterly paycheck. They are a way of doing things. I would go so far as to argue that they are a philosophy of life (or at least of business).

They are a way of correctly conducting business for a healthy company. A sound business philosophy begins with dividends…

That might sound a little kooky at first, but hear me out.

In the Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio playing Jordan Belfort, says that money does more than just buy you a better life; it also makes you a better person.

OK, so that’s debatable.

But I can assure you those dividend payments, that extra money, definitely makes for a better company.

This is why:

Dividends prove who the real boss actually is. It is important to remember that the bespoke CEO running the company is not the owner. He, or she, is just an employee, no different from a common assembly-line worker… aside from that obscenely engorged paycheck. We, the shareholders, own the company. Management lets us know they understand and respect this by regularly paying us, and by raising the quarterly dividend.

Dividends kill needless empire building. Listen, corporate CEOs aren’t any different from politicians. At the end of day, they’re spending other people’s cash on often wasteful projects that add zero value. Because growth – any growth – offers more power and control.

A regular dividend forces discipline on management. If half-corporate profits pay out as dividends, remaining cash will fall to growth projects chosen much more selectively. CEOs will have to focus on the most profitable and worthwhile and, by necessity, pass on the marginal ones.

Dividends foster more honest financial reporting. At one point or another, many (if not most) companies will… ahem… perhaps, be a little less than honest in their financial reporting.

Outright fraud is rare, but accounting provisions allow for a decent bit of wiggle room in how revenues and profits hit the bottom line. Even professionals have a hard time figuring out what a company’s true financial position is if the numbers are fuzzy enough.

Incidentally, our resident forensic accountant John Del Vecchio has an entire trading service dedicated to uncovering accounting shenanigans. John lays out step-by-step how investors are getting taken for a ride while “blue chip” companies hand out multi-million dollar bonuses to executives, make foolish and ultimately worthless acquisitions and spend lavishly on expensive perks.

Well, while dodgy accounting can obfuscate revenues and profits, it’s a far-sight harder to fudge the numbers when it comes to cold, hard cash.

For a company to pay a dividend, it has to have the cash in the bank. So, while paying a good dividend is no guarantee a company isn’t being over-aggressive with its accounting, it definitely acts as an additional check/balance.

Share buybacks – the main alternative to cash dividends – never seem to work out as planned. Companies always buy their largest share repurchases when times are good, they’re flush with cash, and their stock is sitting near new highs.

But when the economy hits a rough patch, sales slow, and the stock price falls… the buybacks dry right up. And another (frankly insidious) motivation for buybacks is to “mop up” share dilution from executive stock options and employee stock purchase plans. The net effect is that a company buys their shares high and sells them back to employees and insiders low.

Call me crazy, but I thought the whole idea of investing was to buy low and sell high, not the other way around. A better and more consistent use of cash would be the payment of a cash dividend.

And finally, we get to stock returns. I’m not particularly excited about the stock market at today’s prices. Based on the cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio, the S&P 500 will deliver annual returns of virtually zero over the next decade. But if you’re getting a dividend check (or two…) every quarter, you’ll still realize a respectable return, even if the market goes nowhere. And that return is real, in cold hard cash, and not ephemeral like paper capital gains.

Hey, not every great company pays a dividend. And younger companies struggling to raise capital to expand have no business paying out precious cash as a dividend, not when it might need to keep the lights on next month.

Seriously… for the bulk of your stock portfolio – the core positions that really make up the heart of your nest egg – look for companies that have a long history of paying and raising their dividends.


Source: Boom & Bust

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The 10 Best Dividend Achievers You Can Buy

Income seekers may want to start their search with these companies

By James Brumley

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/06/10-bes ... 1wAMfl96M8

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The 10 Best Dividend Stocks Across All 10 Sectors

You can find quality dividends with burgeoning growth prospects in every sliver of the market

By Aaron Levitt

Source: Investor Place

http://investorplace.com/2016/06/10-bes ... 2C9ZPl96M8

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'Dividend Aristocrats' may get messy and overvalued, warns portfolio manager

By Lawrence Lewitinn

“If you look at the ‘Dividend Aristocrat’ indices, they're trading at fairly high multiples versus historically where they've been,” said Cowen.

“A lot of them are at significant premiums to their historic multiples as well.”

“There is an old saying among bond traders, ‘There are no bad bonds, there are just bad prices,’ which means that you can overpay for anything,” he said.

“Just because you're getting a 3.5% dividend but you might be paying 30 times earnings for that company where it normally trades at 10 times earnings, you might be overpaying just for that dividend.

And that dividend might not support it if that multiple contracts for any reason.”

Source: Yahoo Finance

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