The Dogs of The Dow is an investing strategy that consists of buying the 10 stocks with the highest dividend yield out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), an index of 30 large-cap U.S. stocks. The portfolio should be adjusted at the beginning of each year to include the 10 highest yielding stocks. It’s…
General Mills (GIS) reported an strong adjusted EPS of $1.00, beating analyst estimates by $0.13 and increasing 26.6% versus the same quarter last year. Revenue of $4.36 billion also beats analysts estimates by $150 million and grows 9.0% year-over-year. The company announced an increase of its quarterly per share dividend by 4.1%, from $0.49 to…
Key points: The UK Dividend Aristocrats Index is created by S&P and is based on a managed dividends policy of increasing or stable dividends for at least 10 consecutive years. In Europe, it is not common to focus on paying a dividend in a row ( consecutive years) to the shareholders. Only 35 UK stocks…
Wall Street’s analysts say these dividend aristocrat stocks have upside potential, based on their one-year price target. 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 US companies that have historically provided (slightly) better performance and…
As a dividend growth investor, you could narrow the universe of stocks you willing to consider for your investment to dividend stocks that are undervalued. We will zoom-in on and discuss ten undervalued Dividend Aristocrats, their valuation, dividend yield, and performance. This undervaluation list can be a good starting point for further research, and find…
Software company Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.56 per share, reflecting a $0.05 or 10% increase over the previous quarter’s dividend. Microsoft is a dividend achiever which has managed to increase annual dividends for 17 consecutive years. The forward annual dividend is $2.24 and the forward…
US Healthcare company and dividend aristocrat AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) announced Friday that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of $1.18 per share. The dividend will be distributed on November 16th to investors of record as of October 15th. The stock will trade ex-dividend on October 14th. The forward dividend yield is 5.14% and…
The estimated future total return data is available for the dividend kings and dividend aristocrats in our database. The estimated EPS growth for the next 5 years is also presented. Estimating the expected 5 years future total returns is based on two main components for dividend growth stocks: Dividend yield Change in share price The…
US equities continued their rally in August, the S&P 500 gained another 7% after the +5.6% in July, this is the best monthly performance since April. The Dividend Aristocrats ended this month up 4% after 5.13% in July. The investors were more optimistic after the Fed stimulus and a shift in policy to average inflation…
Our International Dividend Portfolio gained 5.76% in US$ and 5.23% in € in August. Year-to-date the performance is finally in the plus and is now 2.67% in US$ for the International Dividend Portfolio. Performance Since its inception in 2009, the portfolio has returned 302% in US$ and 374% in €, excluding reinvesting dividends. Last month’s…