In a falling rate environment and the concerns based on the yield curve inversion, Goldman Sachs is advising clients to buy high-dividend payers, which it says are trading at their cheapest levels in nearly 40 years relative to stocks with low yields. Goldman Sachs is in this case recommending to its clients the firm’s Dividend…
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) owns more than $200 billion worth of stocks and is an interesting dividend portfolio to monitor. The Warren Buffet portfolio tracker keeps track of Berkshire’s stock holdings which is the investing vehicle of Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha. Based on the Berkshire holdings as reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission…
Stocks plunged last Wednesday in the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s worst performance of 2019 after the bond market indicated a troubling signal on the U.S. economy. The yield curve inversion has been a reliable indicator of economic recessions. Dow worst drop this year The Dow dropped 800.49 points or 3.05% to 2,5479.42, its worst percentage…
Here’s our quarterly update on what Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway Bought and Sold based on the Berkshire holdings as reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the 13F filing on August 14, 2019, except for Bank of America, which is as of July 17. See also the Warren Buffet portfolio tracker During…
The famous Dividend Aristocrats are a select group of S&P 500 stocks with 25+ years of consecutive dividend increases.These are all large US companies since they are part of the S&P 500 Index. Although quarterly dividend pay-outs and yearly consecutive dividend increases are not common in Europe, there is a list of European Dividend aristocrats.…
Dividend King and Dividend aristocrats Dover Corp. (ISIN: US2600031080, NYSE: DOV) will pay its shareholders a quarterly dividend of $ 0.49. This increases the company’s dividend by 2% or 1 US cents from $0.48. The increase is equivalent to an annual payout of $ 1.96. The current dividend yield at the stock market price of…
Dividend aristocrat Stanley Black & Decker Inc. (ISIN: US8545021011, NYSE: SWK) raises the dividend by 3 cents, or 4.5%, to $0.69 on a quarterly basis. The next payout will be on September 17th, 2019 (Record day: September 3rd, 2019). Stanley Black & Decker Inc. started in 1877 with paying a dividend. Since then, 142 years…
About The International Dividend Portfolio objective is to generate dividend income every month, based on international dividend growth stocks and over the long-term preserve and grow the invested capital. The total return is expected to follow the MSCI World index and a dividend growth rate between 4%-9%. Holdings are rarely sold as long as dividend…
The stock market bounced back in June, including the “dogs of the dow”. The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, showed their best months since January, rising 6.9% and 7.4%, respectively. On top of that, the S&P is up 17.4% for the year, marking its best first half since 1997. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied…
S&P Europe 350® Dividend Aristocrats® measure the performance of S&P Europe 350 constituents that have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 10 consecutive years. The index benchmark is the S&P Europe 350 index Like the (US) Dividend Aristocrats “big brother”, the European Dividend Aristocrats also tend to outperform its…