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  • How Are the S&P's Dividend Aristocrats Performing? [View article]
    This article is helpful, but the Aristocrats list needs updating and completion: ROH no longer exists, and RPM, SYY, FPL, and NFG are not mentioned - Aristocrats all.
    Nov 05 08:51 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Dividends Survive Despite Recession [View article]
    On the other hand, I think the real point here is to own those equities which have corporate cultures of raising their dividends on a regular basis, and treating a dividend cut (or failure to raise) as a strong sell signal. If the majority of your portfolio raised their dividends this past 12 months, you avoided most of the "decimation", and enjoyed an increased income, real money you can spend or reinvest.
    May 18 09:15 am |Rating: +10 0 |Link to Comment
  • What Does Dow's Theory Tell Us About Bank of America? [View article]
    And through all those downturns BAC continued to increase the dividend every year.
    Sep 16 08:08 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • General Electric Presents a Dividend Opportunity [View article]
    It is not just a solid dividend: The dividend represents solid growth. We bought GE several years ago when it was yielding about 2.5% on the current price. Now, with dividend increases, we are getting 15% yield on our original purchase price. Show me a bond that will do that for retirees.
    Jul 25 08:35 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Investing in Dividend Paying Companies [View article]
    This analysis is further proof, if any were needed, of the wisdom of buying solid companies and planning to hold them for a long time. A refinement of the technique would have been to assume all stocks had DRIPS plans, and you opted for them, which would have been the best pre-retirement strategy.

    Mind you, not all of the DJIA stocks meet my personal quality criteria, so I would have been more selective. The same holds true today, for example GM. And there are other higher-quality stocks which are not on the DJIA list. Quality is the issue, and dividends are part of the definition of quality.
    Jul 15 08:32 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • 2 Reasons to Hold a U.S. Stocks-Dominated Portfolio [View article]
    Just a not in passing on the supposed parallel between the Imperial Rome and the USA. The rise of the Roman Empire was coincident with a major period of global warming. The collapse of the Roman Empire took place coincidentally with a significant period of global cooling. We are, I am widely advised, in a significant period of global warming at the present moment.
    Jun 17 10:30 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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