Analyzing, rating and selecting dividend stocks can be difficult and time-consuming. The question is how do you prevent mistakes when you are searching for attractive dividend stocks? High dividend payments are great, and dividend growth stocks are probably better, but dividend cuts are definitely a risk to avoid. Not only the dividends are cut, but…
According to the latest 13-F regulatory filing, Berkshire Hathaway reduced its Wells Fargo (WFC) position by 7%, or 31.4 million shares, to hold 378 million shares. Wells Fargo is the fourth largest stock holding for Berkshire Hathaway. Berkshire Hathaway reveals also a new stake of 1.2 million shares in RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware.…
Sustainable investing and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies are a hot topic on Wall Street. There’s a growing pile of evidence indicating that stocks of companies that meet the standards for ESG-factors are likely to outperform the market. Bank of America Merrill Lynch presented 10 reasons why one should care about ESG. Three…
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 for the defensive stocks. More background information can be found on the dedicated defensive aristocrats page. The idea behind the Defensive Dividend Aristocrats is to invest in…
The international dividend portfolio continues to reach new all-time-highs in euros and in US-dollars by end of October 2019. Total portfolio value in USD is 523,958 and 469,202 in euro. Performance Update European equities kept a positive momentum in October and ended in positive territory, despite concerns about slowing economic growth in the Eurozone and…
Public companies run by billionaires are better for investors. Shares in companies controlled by billionaires have significantly outperformed the global market average over the past 15 years. Those companies return almost twice the average market performance, according to the new UBS/PwC Billionaires Report 2019. The billionaire effect: driving outperformance According to the report, over the…
As mentioned in our newsletter, Dividend Aristocrat Walgreen Boots (WBA) is one of the laggards in 2019 and down almost 13% year-to-date. Last week, WBA already managed expectations by lowering growth earnings in fiscal 2020 because of the low reimbursement rates for prescription drugs, and competition from online retailers such as Amazon.com (AMZN). According to…
The Dividend Aristocrats list is a select group of companies in the Europe 350 Index that have increased dividends every year for the last 10 straight years. The screener below list the European dividend aristocrats including their last price, the 1 year average price target estimated by analysts and the potential (%) based on…
The dividend growth rate (DGR) is an important aspect when analyzing dividend stocks, not only to identify the best dividend growers but also to help dividend investor to keep up with inflation. Dividend growth means that the company should generate robust free cash flow. Free cash flow is defined as a company’s operating cash flow…
AbbVie (ABBV) raised its quarterly dividend by 10.3% to $1.18 a share from $1.07 a share. The new dividend will be payable Feb. 14 to shareholders of record on Jan. 15. At the current stock price of $ 81.75 (as of November 1, 2019), the (forward) dividend yield is 5.77%. This is a high yield,…