Fall is in the air. Little league baseball is over and football, soccer, and cross country for the kids are just beginning. We took our final family camping trip of the summer this past weekend, and the kids started school this week. Yard work, gardening, work, and chasing an ever more able toddler keep me…
Hello again, and welcome to the March edition of Dividend Growth Digest. It’s been a wild month in the market, as volatility increased in a big way to end the month of February, turning all-time highs to record daily losses in the blink of an eye. I long wondered how the market kept moving higher…
January is in the books, and what a month it was. Not only was it another month of gains for the stock market, but there was plenty of other news to go along with those gains. The impeachment hearings have come to an end, as the Senate acquitted President Trump, removing one variable of uncertainty…
I was just going over some of my sector-based watch lists and was struck by the wide variety of dividend payout ratio targets that have been set by companies. This got me thinking about how often investors, and specifically dividend investors, use payout ratio as an initial screening tool for finding potential investments. Not only…