Dividend Yield

Dividend Stocks are Not a Bond Substitute

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The following is a guest post by Ben Carlson from A Wealth of Common Sense. If you would like to submit a guest post to The Dividend Ninja, check out our guest posting guidelines. “Compare this with a 50% drawdown in stocks in the past bear market and you can see that bonds and stocks do not have the same characteristics for loss.  Interest rates would really need to spike higher in a very short period of time to equal stock losses.  And unfortunately, rates can stay low for long periods of time.” Dividend Stocks are Not a Bond Substitute …

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Four Key Dividend Metrics You Need to Know

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This article was published in the May 2014 edition of the Canadian MoneySaver, and is posted here with permission. For more information visit www.canadianmoneysaver.ca Although dividend investing can seem overwhelming and complicated, it really doesn’t need to be. Nor do you need to be a financial professional or CPA to make sense of it all. A few red-flags to watch out for, as well as specific ratios to look at, will help you buy a dividend titan instead of a dividend dud. Here are four key dividend metrics I look at, when initially screening dividend stocks: Dividend Yield The dividend …

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Go Global for Higher Yield Dividend Stocks

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Written by Ben Carlson One of the biggest fears investors have right now, is that interest rates will rise substantially from their current historically low levels. Many believe this inevitable interest rate increase could lead to the underperformance of dividend paying stocks. Bonds are directly impacted by an increase in rates, but other income producing investments such as REITs, preferred stocks and dividend stocks could also be adversely affected. See my previous post – The Risks of High Yielding Investments. Since bond yields have been so low for so long now, dividend stocks have enjoyed a strong rise and have probably …

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Shareholder Yield, A Better Approach to Dividend Investing – Book Review

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The following is a guest post from Ben Carlson at A Wealth of Common Sense.  Ben writes about personal finance, investments, investor psychology and using your common sense to build wealth. [easyazon_image add_to_cart=”default” align=”left” asin=”B00CRLSL4W” cloaking=”default” height=”auto” localization=”default” locale=”CA” nofollow=”default” new_window=”default” src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JBj5Xm-9L.jpg” tag=”divninjaca-20″ width=”230″][easyazon_link asin=”B00CRLSL4W” locale=”CA” new_window=”default” nofollow=”default” tag=”divninjaca-20″ add_to_cart=”default” cloaking=”default” localization=”default” popups=”default”]Shareholder Yield: A Better Approach to Dividend Investing[/easyazon_link]by Mebane Faber, answers one of the most often asked questions in investing today – “Where do I find yield”? Academic research on the topic of dividend investing is fairly well-known at this point (especially to loyal Dividend Ninja readers).  Dividends make …

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