dividend
A dividend is a cash payout that serves as a way for companies to share the profits they’ve accumulated through their operations. These payouts are drawn from earnings and cash flow paid to the shareholders of the company. Commonly these dividends are paid quarterly, although they may also be paid annually or even monthly as well. A dividend can produce as much as a quarter of your total return over long periods. Some good companies reinvest profits instead of paying a dividend. But fraudulent and failing companies hardly ever pay a dividend. So if you only buy stocks that pay dividends, you’ll automatically stay out of almost all the market’s worst stocks. For a true measure of stability, focus on companies that have maintained or raised their dividends during recessions and stock market downturns. These firms leave themselves enough room to handle periods of earnings volatility. By continually rewarding investors, and retaining enough cash to finance their businesses, they provide an attractive mix of safety, income and growth. Dividends are an important contributor to your long-term gains, and dividend-paying stocks tend to expose you to less risk than non-dividend-payers. That’s why the majority of your stocks should be dividend-payers at all times. As you get older and closer to retirement, you should raise the proportion of dividend-paying stocks in your portfolio, to cut risk and improve the stability of your investment results. To maximize your investment returns with the least risk, follow TSI Network and use our three-part Successful Investor strategy:
- Invest mainly in well-established companies;
- Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; Utilities);
- Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.
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DANAHER CORP....
These two technology-focused firms have struggled in the past year. But, their shares have moved up lately as activists push for changes meant to lift their earnings. Still, these firms don’t yet inspire our confidence. Here’s why.
SALESFORCE INC....
A good example is cardboard maker WestRock, which spun off its Ingevity chemical business in 2016 to create two pure-play firms....
In 2019, the old DowDuPont (New York symbol DWDP) split itself into three separate, more-focused companies—DuPont, Dow and Corteva.
All three are up since the split, as investors prefer pure-play companies over conglomerates that hold a variety of businesses....
Today, the company is the world’s largest maker of agricultural equipment, with manufacturing plants in the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Spain, South Africa, Mexico and Argentina....
The company is Canada’s second-largest wireless carrier (after BCE) with 12.16 million subscribers. It also sells landline phone, Internet and TV services in B.C., Alberta and eastern Quebec.
With the January 2023 payment, Telus increased your quarterly dividend by 3.7%, to $0.3511 a share from $0.3386....
In the quarter ended December 31, 2022, sales were up 11.2%, to $2.18 billion from $1.96 billion a year earlier....