Dividends can produce as much as a third of your total return over long periods, and you can even retire on dividends.
There are 4 key stock dividend dates that are involved with dividend payments:
1- The Declaration Date is several weeks in advance of a dividend payment—it’s when company’s board of directors sets the amount and timing of the proposed payment.
2- The Payable Date is the date set by the board on which the dividend will actually be paid out to shareholders.
3- The Record Date is for shareholders who hold the stock before the payable date and receive the dividend payment. That date is set any number of weeks before the payable date.
4-The Ex-Dividend Date is two business days before the record date and it’s when the shares begin to trade without their dividend. If you buy stocks one day or more before their ex-dividend date, you will still get the dividend. That’s when a stock is said to trade cum-dividend. If you buy on the ex-dividend date or later, you won’t get the dividend. The ex-dividend date is in place to allow pending stock trades to settle.
We think very highly of stocks that have been paying dividends for five or more years, at TSI Network. Many of these stocks fit in well with our three-part Successful Investor philosophy:
1- Invest mainly in well-established companies;
2- Spread your money out across most if not all of the five main economic sectors (Manufacturing & Industry; Resources & Commodities; Consumer; Finance; and Utilities);
3- Downplay or avoid stocks in the broker/media limelight.
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Wyndham last raised your quarterly dividend by 7.9% with the March 2025 payment, to $0.41 a share from $0.38. The annual rate of $1.64 yields 2.1%.
With the October 2025 payment, North West raised your quarterly dividend by 2.5%, to $0.41 a share from $0.40. The new annual rate of $1.64 yields 3.3%.
Broadridge raised your quarterly dividend by 10.8% with the October 2025 payment, to $0.975 a share from $0.88. The new annual rate of $3.90 yields 1.7%. The company has raised its dividend each year since Automatic Data Processing spun it off to its shareholders in 2007.
With the September 2025 payment, Stanley increased your quarterly dividend by 1.2%, to $0.83 a share from $0.82. The annual rate of $3.32 yields 4.6%. The company has now raised the dividend each year for the past 58 years.
The company has paid dividends continuously since 1997. It last increased your quarterly dividend with the June 2025 payment. Investors now receive $0.71 a share, up 2.9% from $0.69. The new annual rate of $2.84 yields a high 5.6%.
The stock now yields 3.0%.
Brown-Forman’s sales and profits have come under pressure over the past couple of years. Strained household budgets due to inflation are partly to blame for the reduced spending on alcohol. There also appears to be other trends that explain lower liquor consumption. These include competition from legal marijuana, the increasing popularity of weight-loss drugs, and health concerns, particularly among the younger generation.