Announcements Quicken After Summer Lull Dividend growth investing is the strategy of buying shares in companies with reliable and consistently increasing dividend payouts to shareholders. I have used this strategy since early 2013, and have kept a log of all the dividend increase announcements in my portfolio since its inception. By doing so, I am able to see…
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Dividend Payout Ratio: Is It Relevant?
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…