Money and Finance
Reinvest or Pool?
As a dividend growth investor one of the first things you must decide is whether you want to automatically reinvest your dividends or collect them until and add them to new investment capital. There's advantages and disadvantages to both. The thing I like most about automatic reinvestment is that you're able to consistently add to your position and increase the number of shares you own. Once I identify a high quality company that continues to increase their dividend year after year, I want to own as much of that company as I can. Automatic reinvestment allows me to do so easily and without thought quarter after quarter and continues to build up my position, portfolio, and most importantly my dividends.
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Dividend Growth Investing At Work - 2 More Increases
Something I love about dividend growth investing is that each month I get to hear about companies I own deciding to pay me more money in dividends. Just for owning a small portion of the companies. Not going and doing R&D for new products...
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Dividend Update - November 2012
November was a decent month for dividends with 5 companies paying out in my FI portfolio but none in my Roth IRA. This was much better than October's 3 total payouts. And December is going to be an awesome month with 12 payouts in my FI portfolio...
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Recent Buy
This morning I picked up 36 more shares of KMI at $34.36. I added to the recent position that I initiated last week. You can check out that post here. The 36 shares will provide an extra $50.40 per year in dividends before future increases or reinvestment....
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5 Keys To Reinvesting Dividends
Once you've decided to build a dividend-based portfolio, it's essential to know what you're going to do with the income generated by your investments. There are three basic options -- spend the dividend, save it, or reinvest it. Sounds...
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Dividend Reinvestment
Hi Everyone, I was thinking about what I have left out with regards to my investing style and it hit me: I have not discussed whether or not I reinvest dividends or I "bank" the money and use it all at once to purchase another stock that I feel...
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