About The Defensive Dividend Aristocrats objective is to outperform the Dividend Aristocrats over any five-year rolling time horizon, especially in bear markets. The maximum draw-down (mdd) should be lower, so less volatility than the broader market. The main is to show that next to dividend growth, price-return and risk ratios are also important. The idea…
Dividend investors could use the S&P 500 listed companies as a source to search for high yield dividend stocks. It combines the concept of high yield dividend-paying stocks and the S&P 500 index includes about 80% of the value of the entire U.S. stock market and major US companies. The S&P 500 index includes about…
Is dividend growth rate (DGR) an important aspect? Dividend stocks are enabling income-seeking investors such as retirees to generate income from their invested assets, without the need to sell stocks. In the long-run dividend-paying stocks and dividend growers are showing strong performances. Companies that grew or initiated a dividend have experienced the highest returns relative…
Total Board of Directors decides to accelerate dividend growth with a guidance of increasing the dividend by 5 to 6% per year, as reported on the investor day sept-24, 2019. Total SA (FP.PA) proposes a third interim dividend for this year of €0.68 ($0.75) a share, a 6% increase over last year. The company will…
Dividend Aristocrat McDonald’s (Ticker: MCD) increases its quarterly cash dividend of $1.25 per share of common stock payable on December 16, 2019 to shareholders(Record day December 2, 2019). This represents an 8% increase compared to the Company’s previous quarterly dividend of $1.16. McDonald’s has raised its dividend for 43 consecutive years since paying its first…
11% dividend increase On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.51 per share, reflecting a 5 cent or 11% increase over the previous quarter’s dividend. The dividend is payable Dec. 12, 2019, to shareholders of record on Nov. 21, 2019. The ex-dividend date will be Nov.…
Realty Income Corporation (NYSE: O), announced an increase in the company’s common stock monthly cash dividend to $0.227 per share from $0.2265 per share, representing a 0.2% increase. This is the 103rd dividend increase since Realty Income’s listing on the NYSE in 1994 and 27th-year consecutive increase. Furthermore, there are only 39 companies that pay…
The table below lists the ten highest dividend yield Dow stocks as of Monday’s (09/17/2019) close. These ten dividend stocks would be the current Dogs of the Dow, when an investor started investing in these high dividend-paying stocks. For your convenience, the table also identifies the “small dogs”, which are the five stocks (out of…
Although the S&P 500 is already 19.5% up since the beginning of the year, there are still undervalued Dividend Aristocrats worthwhile considering to buy. 5-year dividend yield average as an indicator Dividend Aristocrats are companies in the S&P 500 that have increased dividends every year for the last 25 straight years. These Aristocrats companies have…
The Dividend Aristocrats list is a select group of companies in the S&P 500 Index that have increased dividends every year for the last 25 straight years. These members are probably the most well-known dividend stocks globally. The question is how to compare and selected dividend stocks, factoring in different dividend yields and dividend growth…