The dividend history for a corporation is its record of dividend payments over time. Although a stock chart showing the share price performance of the stock might be interesting, it’s the stability and growth of dividend payouts that’s most important to income investors. When looking over those records, here are several areas to pay particular [...]

Dividend reinvestment plans or DRIPs let you automatically reinvest any dividend payments from a stock back into shares of the stock itself.  Instead of receiving your dividend payments as cash, they’re instead used to buy partial shares of corporation stock to grow your underlying equity position.  Although dividend reinvestment plans can be a great option [...]

The dividend discount model (DDM) is a method used to calculate the present value of the expected flow of future dividends from a dividend paying stock. If you’re interested in an explanation of the math behind the DDM search Google for dividend discount model as there are plenty of those kind of articles out there. [...]

In equity investing with stocks that don’t pay a dividend, a stock’s value is often unrelated to the fundamental value of the corporation it represents.  Because equity investors are investing for capital gains, the only thing that matters is how likely the stock is to have a positive return over the time period during which [...]

The top 10 highest dividend paying stocks 2011 is a list of the highest dividend yield stocks currently available.  But, although dividend yield is very important as it’s a measure of how much you’ll be paid in dividends for each dollar you have invested in a corporation, it’s not the only criteria you should be [...]