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When to Sell Dividend Stocks

I have done the same thing with my shipping stocks. They make no senses without a dividend. When i sold them they all declined further,which made me feel better about the decision.

A Dividend Primer, You Don't Get Something for Nothing

The analysis below is correct but it ignores the fact that during the years when the company retains your money and distributes nothing, what do they do with it? Do they compensate themselves lavishly?, do the do acquisitions which turn out badly?, Does the value of the retained income collapse due to factors external?, .all of the above?


On Dec 02 04:15 PM 22thoroughbred wrote:

> I have NEVER been a fan of dividends, why give me back my own money
> and make it a taxable event (in a taxable acct. of c analysourse) I buy
> 1000 shares of company A at $10 (spending $10,000) they pay a $1
> per share dividend and thus reduce the stock price by $1, so now
> I still have $10,000 worth of assets, but it is $9,000 stock $1,000
> in dividend = $10,000 and I have to pay tax on the $1,000 dividend.
> Too many novice investors don't realize the stock is reduced by the
> amount of the div. and that's with penny pricing now, it used to
> be if a co. paid an 8 cent div. the stock was reduced by 1/8th or
> 12.5 cents, so you would lose money. It was rounded UP to the nearest
> 1/8th and reduced, so in a year in that scenerio you receive back
> 32 cents ( 8 cents x 4 divs.) and the stock was reduced by 50 cents
> (12.5 cents x 4 divs.) No Thanks...

General Electric Moves On Down the Largest Company List

I see my ge long term bond is trading more like AA- than AAA.
Is this ominous?

The Financials, the Automakers, and the Call That Cramer and All of CNBC Got Wrong

I don't see how 100% loyalty to a US employer is possible anymore now that most of the big ones have been exposed as 50% incompetent and 50% corrupt plus 50% reckless

Three Stocks To Be Held To Infinity and Beyond

I'm fed up with these retrospective & selective analyses. You get them with every newsletter. "If you'd done this then and that later....................
Let's mention the winners and forget the losers.
Change either the stock or the time frame and get any answer you like.