Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway reported on Saturday that its quarterly operating income rose by 14%, mainly driven by higher prices of stock holdings such as Apple. This led to a higher overall profit. Fourth-quarter operating income rose to $5.02 billion from $4.42 billion a year earlier and net income, reflecting the stock gains, rose 23%…
M&T Bank Corporation (MTB) and People’s United Financial, Inc. (PBCT) announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which M&T will acquire People’s United in an all-stock transaction. The merger is expected to close in 4Q21. Under the agreement terms, People’s United shareholders will receive 0.118 of a share of M&T common stock…
Here is part 2 on how to creating a successful retirement portfolio. Based on our US retirement portfolio, we will provide more insights into building a European retirement portfolio. In the coming weeks, you can follow along the selection of some solid “retirement dividend stocks”. In part 2, we will add two new dividend stocks.…
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 of…
Next to dividend cuts, dividend increases are an important factor for dividend growth and expressing the company’s confidence in the future growth of its business. Dividend growth stocks have been among the best long-term performers in the market, when payout ratio and high yield is monitored. The table below lists the most important dividend increases…
Start investing in dividend stocks can be done for example with a basket of 15+ different individual dividend stocks to accomplish differentiation and risk reduction. Alternatively, you could start with one or more dividend ETF’s and even with little money. The question is what is the best dividend ETF? Five Dividend ETF Analyzed There are…
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 are based on two main components for dividend growth stocks: Dividend yield Change in share price The…
The DAX is one of the major European indexes and comprised of the 30 largest and most traded companies in Germany. It represents around 80% of the market capitalization of listed stock corporations in Germany. For non-European investors, it is important to know that dividends are somewhat different than in the US. Dividend pay-outs (ex-dividend)…
The ranking of the top 10 Dividend Aristocrats to buy today, is based on expected annual returns through 2026, so their 5 years future total returns. These 10 stocks represent attractive long-term buys for dividend growth investors. Estimating the expected 5 years future total returns are based on two main components for dividend growth stocks:…
The screener results below list the dividend aristocrats including their last price, the one-year average price target estimated by analysts, and the potential (%) based on the difference between the last price and the Wall Street price target. The following dividend aristocrats are the best ones to consider based on their one-year price target according…