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Dividend Investing Is Not Only About The Dividend

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  Published Sat, 28 Jul 2012 13:00:54 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
  

  
  

  If the sole goal of dividend-focused investing were dividends, then almost every dividend investor would be fighting it out to buy shares of Student Transportation (STB), a debt-laden and share-dilutive bus company that offers an 8.5% yield. But of course, that's not the case. Intelligent dividend investing focuses on the safety and reliability of the dividend, and that's why companies that yield 2%-5% like Coca-Cola (KO) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) are often staples in the portfolio of the dividend investor. It's because dividend investing with mega-cap stocks is not about the dividend exclusively. Sometimes I think it would be appropriate to rename dividend growth investing with mega-cap stocks "Last Man Standing Investing." We don't flock to Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson just because they pay a dividend, but rather because these are the strongest companies on the planet that are likely to be standing in moments of terrible financial... Read more
  

  Stock name									ISIN	Last trade		P/E	Earnings/Share	Dividend/Share	Dividend yield
  STUDENT TRANSPORTATION									CA86388A1084	6.50		0.0	0.00	0.55	8.40
  MCDONALDS									US5801351017	101.54		18.8	5.39	3.08	3.03
  PROCTER & GAMBLE									US7427181091	80.02		20.2	3.97	2.41	3.01
  JOHNSON & JOHNSON									US4781601046	88.09		23.8	3.67	2.64	3.00
  COCA-COLA									US1912161007	42.97		22.6	1.91	1.12	2.61
  COLGATE PALMOLIVE									US1941621039	62.04		25.5	2.45	1.36	2.19

  
  

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