36 Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in Early March [View article]
Indeed! Unfortunately a dividend is something which far too many investors place too much weight on. They see a relatively high dividend, and then tend to ignore everything else, such as an extremely over-inflated balance sheet, the lack of cash and thus the need to take on more debt in order to actually be able to pay the dividend resulting of course in a reduction in share value, and not to mention the potential of dividend suspension at any time. In fact these days a dividend should only be looked at as an extra bonus to help in the decision making process to buy, and as you say, in no way used as the sole basis for purchasing a particular stock.
On Feb 19 06:34 AM ED K wrote:
> Although the dividend is one of many factors to be considered in > the purchase of equities it should not be the sole determining factorThe > method described above breaks this generally accepted investing rule.
36 Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in Early March [View article]
On Feb 19 03:38 PM User 352293 wrote:
> Are there mutual funds that focus on dividend yield equities?
36 Stocks Going Ex-Dividend in Early March [View article]
On Feb 19 06:34 AM ED K wrote:
> Although the dividend is one of many factors to be considered in
> the purchase of equities it should not be the sole determining factorThe
> method described above breaks this generally accepted investing rule.