Ahhhh, cash, money, green. Sounds so nice. More money, less work. We all want it, and we all say we need it, but when it comes to investing, why do investors ignore it? I’m talking about dividends. In a “What have you done for me lately?” world, investors live or die on prices. Don’t be a price hog. Don’t be a hog, period. The minute you ignore prices, you become Your Survival Guy’s kind of investor. You become eccentric. Unique. Even contrarian in today’s price-focused world. You focus on being paid. You imagine yourself living in a cave, ignoring the chaotic world outside. And I can tell … [Read more...]
DIVIDENDS: The Highest Yield Isn’t Always Best
Dividend yield is important, but sometimes, a high yield can be a warning. In the past fifty years, stocks with yields in the eighth decile have outperformed those with yields in the ninth and tenth deciles, as well as those in the sixth and seventh. Action Line: When you want to talk about dividends and investing, I'm here. Originally posted on Your Survival Guy. … [Read more...]
DIVIDEND: Because You Will Need One to Survive
How do you feel about taxation without representation? Not good, right? How about working your day job for an IOU? Exactly. Not going to happen. But that’s what we see with most tech stocks these days. You have management giving away stock options to retain employees and to goose their own net worth, living on a prayer that the stock price will go up. And the average investor, day trader? They’re not raising money for companies. Please. They’re trading. It’s a zero-sum game. This will change. There was a time when investors demanded a cash return on their money in the form of … [Read more...]
Investors Livin’ on Prices Are Livin’ on a Prayer
How is it that investors treat their money like they’re living on a prayer—hoping for the stock market to do something for them—but when it comes to everyday spending, they hold on to every nickel like it’s the last one they’ll have? They read, and read, and read about this car and that one. They know this washing machine vs the others. They know when there will be “sales,” and they scour the internet, putting artificial intelligence to shame. Then, ask them what their stocks do to make money, and there’s, wait for it…silence. Ahhh, the sound of silence. But that doesn't last long…because … [Read more...]
What Does That Have to Do with Your Dividend?
You know Your Survival Guy loves dividends and values his fiduciary duty to clients. But Richard Vanderford writes in The Wall Street Journal that this year companies will be voting on issues like "abortion, guns and climate change." What does any of that have to do with your dividend? Vanderford continues: A backlash against companies taking on issues ranging from climate change to abortion rights is helping to push shareholder proposals to record numbers this year. More advocacy groups are using these resolutions to try to inject their voices into the corporate agenda, questioning … [Read more...]
Happy New Year! Are You Getting the Advice You Deserve?
Did you make last year a good year? If you subscribed to my monthly Survive & Thrive letter, we got to know each other better and gained some perspective. This year will be no different. As my father-in-law, Dick Young, would write in his monthly newsletter Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report, “make it a good month” is a philosophy. Because this is an emotional time of year, I want you to keep your head about you. As I’ve written to you before, stock prices are qualitative. They’re opinions. Dividends are not. They are quantitative. They’re cold, hard cash. You can see them being … [Read more...]
Your Survival Guy’s Investment Cave for the Winter
Much of your investment success comes from avoiding disasters like crypto exchange FTX. The Fear of Missing Out or FOMO is a huge pull, like gravity, on investors. Look, I’m Your Survival Guy, not Superman, but FOMO’s like kryptonite. It saps the power of self-control and “knowing better” right out of investors, and it comes when you least expect it. If you’ve been with me, this has been a good year. But it’s been downright brutal for the non-dividend paying stocks that mainly comprise the Nasdaq and the tech sector within the S&P 500. The ride up is always more fun than the crash. But … [Read more...]
Procter & Gamble (PG) Stock: The Only True Dividend King
Dividend Kings like Procter & Gamble (PG) are companies that have increased their dividend for at least 50 consecutive years. By Andrii Yalanskyi @ Shutterstock.com Kings is an unfortunate label for a group of stocks, though. There can only be one true king, and if we are talking U.S. stocks with long records of annual dividend growth, Procter & Gamble stock (PG) is the only true Dividend King. P&G has increased its dividend for 64 consecutive years. That ties Procter & Gamble stock with American States Water (AWR) for a record number of consecutive annual dividend … [Read more...]
The Highest Yielding Dow Stocks
For investors looking for high-yielding dividend stocks to buy, the highest dividend payers in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) is a common starting point. Below is a list of the 10 highest yielding Dow stocks. Today, the average yield of the 10 highest-yielding Dow Jones Industrial Averages stocks is 4.94%. You can see their individual yields in the table below. Click the company name for more information on each stock. To view the entire list of Dow stocks ranked by yield, click here. Highest Yielding Dow Jones Industrial Average Stocks Company … [Read more...]
The Highest Yielding S&P 500 Stocks
If you are on the hunt for yield, the top 10 highest-yielding S&P 500 stocks are a tempting place to look for new ideas. Compared to the less than 1.6% yield offered by investing in an S&P 500 index fund, the average yield of the highest 10 dividend-paying S&P 500 stocks is 6.25%. The list below includes the 10 highest yielding S&P 500 stocks along with their indicated dividend yield. Click the company name for more information on each stock. Highest Yielding S&P 500 Stocks Company NameYieldPioneer Natural Resources Co. (PXD)14.81%Lumen Technologies … [Read more...]
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