Money and Finance
Of course a dividend cut is the worst thing an investor in dividend growth stocks can have happen. You just lost some of your future dividend income that you were expecting to be there. This is why it's best to have a margin of safety in your dividends received versus your expenses when you're planning to live off just the dividends. Assuming that you didn't see the dividend cut coming and didn't sell out of the position before hand, just how bad is it?
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- Dividend Growth Investing At Work: Kinder Morgan, Inc. (kmi) Increases The Dividend To $0.48
Quick update today! But it's one that I love. I love hearing about dividend increases. Like absolutely love them. There's few things that I like more than getting paid extra just for owning quality companies. Yesterday, Kinder...
- Position Closed - Intel Corporation (intc)
Yep, Intel announced yet another quarterly dividend payment of $0.225 per share. That would be 8 straight payments of $0.225. For a position that had the promise of being a solid dividend growth investment, I’m very disappointed in this. I’ve...
- 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...
- Long-term Dividend Goals
If you happened to notice on my Goals page I've updated it some to reflect my long-term dividend goals. In this post I'll detail where and how I calculated the numbers for my dividends. The Dividend Goal is the amount of forward 12-month dividends...
- Exxon Raises, Chevron Disappoints
Hi Everyone, Just thought I'd throw a quick post up since I haven't done one in a while. With a lot of raises going on the past month with regards to dividends, there was an interesting situation today between XOM and CVX. XOM raised the...
Money and Finance
So your dividend got cut. Now what?
Of course a dividend cut is the worst thing an investor in dividend growth stocks can have happen. You just lost some of your future dividend income that you were expecting to be there. This is why it's best to have a margin of safety in your dividends received versus your expenses when you're planning to live off just the dividends. Assuming that you didn't see the dividend cut coming and didn't sell out of the position before hand, just how bad is it?
Read more »
- Dividend Growth Investing At Work: Kinder Morgan, Inc. (kmi) Increases The Dividend To $0.48
Quick update today! But it's one that I love. I love hearing about dividend increases. Like absolutely love them. There's few things that I like more than getting paid extra just for owning quality companies. Yesterday, Kinder...
- Position Closed - Intel Corporation (intc)
Yep, Intel announced yet another quarterly dividend payment of $0.225 per share. That would be 8 straight payments of $0.225. For a position that had the promise of being a solid dividend growth investment, I’m very disappointed in this. I’ve...
- 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...
- Long-term Dividend Goals
If you happened to notice on my Goals page I've updated it some to reflect my long-term dividend goals. In this post I'll detail where and how I calculated the numbers for my dividends. The Dividend Goal is the amount of forward 12-month dividends...
- Exxon Raises, Chevron Disappoints
Hi Everyone, Just thought I'd throw a quick post up since I haven't done one in a while. With a lot of raises going on the past month with regards to dividends, there was an interesting situation today between XOM and CVX. XOM raised the...