Dividend Stocks Outperform the Market Over Time
What if you had invested $100 in dividend paying stocks and $100 in the S&P 500 in 1972? What would your investment be worth today? According to some recent research by Columbia Management, your portfolio of dividend paying stocks would have grown over twice as much as the market over time: Not only do dividend [...]
Historic Returns – A Case for Dividends from Forbes
Income investors typically believe they need to trade long term growth for low volatility and consistent dividend payments but this article from Forbes goes over some interesting statistics that show dividend paying stocks have actually outperformed non-dividend paying stocks over the past eighty years. The article also cites some more recent research that backs up [...]
A Dividend Stock Value Play for November
A close cousin to dividend investing for those of us who value fundamental over technical analysis is value investing in equities. Finding undervalued companies that trade well below where their stock should be priced and buying shares “on sale” then profiting over the medium to long term as the market wises up and investors come [...]
6 Considerations When Choosing a Dividend ETF
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) offer affordable exposure to an underlying index of securities with the bonus that shares can be traded intraday. Expense ratios are often less than those of comparable mutual funds and ETFs are often structured around investing philosophies like income investing through dividends. In this article at USA Today, Matt Krantz answers [...]
Are You Running Your Company or is it Running You?
Although we don’t often stop and take the time to think about it, life is actually the ultimate entrepreneurial experience. We have income, expenses, taxes, and have to plan for growth and the future with what we have left over. For someone earning a modest $40,000 per year in salary, that’s nearly $2 million in [...]
4 Safe International Stocks with High Yields
When you’re looking for high yield dividend paying stocks don’t forget that dividends aren’t unique to stocks that trade in U.S. markets. There are a variety of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) trading on U.S. markets that represent international stocks that often have a higher yield and higher dividends than many U.S. companies. From energy to [...]