Money and Finance
A little over a year ago I wrote a post discussing how to properly calculate the dividend growth rate of your portfolio. Most likely each company you own makes up a different weight in your portfolio so just using a straight average won't suffice. A quick summary of the method is a weighted average 1 year, 3 year, 5 year and 10 year growth rate as well as a weighted average of the weighted averages. I'm not going to go into detail on how the calculations are made, but I recommend you check out my post detailing that if you're interested. The whole point of dividend growth investing is to become a part owner in companies that continue to improve their operations and in turn pay you, the owner, a piece of the profits. Ideally I'd always be able to improve the growth rates of my holdings, but I know that won't be the case. I feel it's important to at least do quarterly checkups on each company that you own and for me an annual review of the overall portfolio dividend growth seems about right as most companies only increase the dividend once each year.
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- Dividend Growth Checkup
As part of my annual review process for my portfolio, I read through the latest quarterly or annual reports for the companies I own, as well as checked up on the organic dividend growth for each position and for the portfolio as a whole. The dividend...
- Recent Buy
Earlier this afternoon I purchased 45 shares of Aflac (AFL) for a $50.15 each. After commission, my cost basis is $50.33 per share. These shares will provide an extra $63 in annual dividends before reinvestment or future dividend increases. Aflac...
- Determining Dividend Growth Rate Of Your Portfolio
In hopes of getting better numbers to project off of, I've been compiling data to calculate the dividend growth rate of my entire portfolio. Easy right? Just add up the dividend growth rate for each position and divide by the total number of positions....
- Caterpillar Accelerates Dividend
As I was compiling some dividend history for my positions to try and get and weighted average growth rate over the past few years, I noticed that Caterpillar (CAT) was scheduled for 5 payments this year. Since other companies have gone the route of...
- Dividend Increases For My Portfolio
In the time since I started my portfolio I've had several stocks announce dividend increases. .nobrtable br { display: none } tr.alt td {background-color: #ffffff; color: black;} caption {caption-side:bottom;} Dividend Increases Company Old Quarterly...
Money and Finance
Dividend Growth Checkup
A little over a year ago I wrote a post discussing how to properly calculate the dividend growth rate of your portfolio. Most likely each company you own makes up a different weight in your portfolio so just using a straight average won't suffice. A quick summary of the method is a weighted average 1 year, 3 year, 5 year and 10 year growth rate as well as a weighted average of the weighted averages. I'm not going to go into detail on how the calculations are made, but I recommend you check out my post detailing that if you're interested. The whole point of dividend growth investing is to become a part owner in companies that continue to improve their operations and in turn pay you, the owner, a piece of the profits. Ideally I'd always be able to improve the growth rates of my holdings, but I know that won't be the case. I feel it's important to at least do quarterly checkups on each company that you own and for me an annual review of the overall portfolio dividend growth seems about right as most companies only increase the dividend once each year.
Read more »
- Dividend Growth Checkup
As part of my annual review process for my portfolio, I read through the latest quarterly or annual reports for the companies I own, as well as checked up on the organic dividend growth for each position and for the portfolio as a whole. The dividend...
- Recent Buy
Earlier this afternoon I purchased 45 shares of Aflac (AFL) for a $50.15 each. After commission, my cost basis is $50.33 per share. These shares will provide an extra $63 in annual dividends before reinvestment or future dividend increases. Aflac...
- Determining Dividend Growth Rate Of Your Portfolio
In hopes of getting better numbers to project off of, I've been compiling data to calculate the dividend growth rate of my entire portfolio. Easy right? Just add up the dividend growth rate for each position and divide by the total number of positions....
- Caterpillar Accelerates Dividend
As I was compiling some dividend history for my positions to try and get and weighted average growth rate over the past few years, I noticed that Caterpillar (CAT) was scheduled for 5 payments this year. Since other companies have gone the route of...
- Dividend Increases For My Portfolio
In the time since I started my portfolio I've had several stocks announce dividend increases. .nobrtable br { display: none } tr.alt td {background-color: #ffffff; color: black;} caption {caption-side:bottom;} Dividend Increases Company Old Quarterly...