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They’ll Wonder How You Live So Well

November 11, 2010 By E.J. Smith

The businesses of the top 10 companies in the Vanguard Dividend Achievers fund could easily be part of your Saturday morning errands, especially if the kids and family are visiting. You could start the morning by leaving the house with a can of Diet Pepsi, stop by a Chevron station to fill up the tank, then swing into Walmart for some baby supplies like Pampers and Johnson’s Baby Shampoo for the little ones and Ibuprofen for yourself just in case you use the self-checkout lane. Hop back in the car, zip over to ExxonMobil for a car wash, scoot across the street for a Coke and a Big Mac, and catch a glimpse of a new IBM RFID billboard—you know, the one with the chip that knows it’s you that’s coming—flashing “you forgot the eggs.”

Whew. Just thinking about all that errand running is enough to wear a person out. A better way to start your Saturday would be to admire the dividends the companies in the Vanguard Dividend Achievers yield as a group, which is just over 2% per year. This is good, but you know what’s better? Young Research’s Retirement Compounders (RCs) program, which includes some of the common stocks I just mentioned, yields 5%, and is up 10.2% YTD. That’s a significant feat, considering that the Dow transports, industrials, and utilities yield 1.63%, 2.56%, and 4.28% and are up 12.5%, 5.7%, and 1.2%, respectively.

If you compound 5% for the next 15 years, you’ll turn $1 million into $2 million. If your kids start with $100,000 today and compound it at 5% for 30 years, it will become $430,000. And if they start their kids today with $10,000 and compound it at 5% for 45 years, they’ll have a tidy $90,000. That can be a lot of fun to imagine. Compounding dividends at a rate of 2X, 4X, or even 9X can make it happen.

How can you do that when buying into scary trailing price-earnings (P/E) ratios for the Dow transports, industrials, and utilities at 35, 13, and 14, respectively? Those are certainly not screaming values, but if the market P/E contracts, it’s nice to have a dividend payment as a safety net. Furthermore, with gold around $1,350 per ounce, investors want a store of value. During inflationary or deflationary times, companies that pay dividends, such as those dealing with commodities or consumer staples, tend to have pricing power. Others, such as huge multinationals, like a weak U.S. dollar when competing with stronger currencies.

Nevertheless, getting the right mix of stocks isn’t easy. Neither is beating the yield in funds like Vanguard’s Dividend Achievers fund. The RCs have done a good job at both of late. That said, you’ll still have to run your Saturday errands.

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E.J. Smith
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@youngresearch.com
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