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An Introduction To Dividend Growth Investing

Published Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:17:03 -0400 on Seeking Alpha

This article is inspired by two comments on Paulo Santos' Sunday article, "The Difficulties Of Dividend Investing And 2 Possible Solutions." Specifically, these are the comments (emphases added by me): Why are people...so obsessed with dividend "income"? The money you get paid is money that is removed from the company you still own. Which is why the value of a company drops in relation to its dividend payment. Dividends are merely transferring cash from one entity you own (a public company) to another (your bank account). To me, that is not what "income" is. Income is acquiring new cash that you didn't already have rights to. Why all the articles about companies like [Johnson & Johnson] (JNJ)and [McDonald's] (MCD), which yield 4% or LESS when right now and into the foreseeable future, their [sic] are REITs and other companies…which generate 15% or more?...There are also companies such as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK),.... Read more

Stock name									ISIN	Last trade		P/E	Earnings/Share	Dividend/Share	Dividend yield
MCDONALDS									US5801351017	102.14		18.8	5.39	3.08	3.02
JOHNSON & JOHNSON									US4781601046	88.59		24.0	3.67	2.64	2.98

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