David I. Templeton

S&P 500: Dividend Cuts Accelerate in November

I recently wrote a post detailing S&P 500 companies with market caps below $1 billion. The information can be found at the following link:

disciplinedinvesting.b...


On Dec 03 11:13 AM Smarty_Pants wrote:

> One other consideration is the number of S&P 500 companies that
> no longer qualify to be in the index due to loss of market cap.

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> I have read that over 1/3 of the current S&P 500 companies no
> longer qualify to be in the index. If they are replaced will the
> new companies be paying dividends, if so how much?
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> Consumer retrenching is just getting under way. Expect profits and
> dividends to be soft for some time to come.