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Dividend Growth Investing: Beating Inflation With Long-Term Investing

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  Published Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:06:31 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
  

  
  

  In a recent article titled "Inflation And The Fallacies of Long-Term Investing," author Daniel Krug makes some very interesting points: 'Invest in stocks for the long term.' Wise advice? Maybe not. This conventional wisdom can easily be proven false. I strongly believe that most investors are ignoring a very important concept that has a dramatic effect on their wealth. Many investors pay close attention to their rate of return. However, there is a component of investing that many investors fail to fully recognize. This effect is inflation. Inflation is just as important (if not more) when calculating gains or losses of an asset. In a nutshell, Krug is telling readers that inflation can seriously impact our perception of gains within our portfolios, because the purchasing power of our dollars is being constantly eroded by this inflationary paradigm. Something To Consider As a dividend growth investor, my main focus is centered... Read more
  

  Stock name									ISIN	Last trade		P/E	Earnings/Share	Dividend/Share	Dividend yield
  KIMBERLY-CLARK									US4943681035	103.51		22.3	4.60	3.24	3.13
  JOHNSON & JOHNSON									US4781601046	86.82		23.7	3.68	2.64	3.04
  PROCTER & GAMBLE									US7427181091	81.88		19.8	3.97	2.41	2.94
  COCA-COLA									US1912161007	42.24		22.0	1.91	1.12	2.65
  WAL-MART STORES									US9311421039	77.31		15.1	5.07	1.88	2.43
  COLGATE PALMOLIVE									US1941621039	61.17		24.9	2.45	1.36	2.22

  
  

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