Dividend-News
Daily dividend news for investors in dividend stocks
Retirement Strategy: What Does Dividend Growth Investing Actually Mean?
Published Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:00:00 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
Seeking AlphaRetirementRetirement Strategy: What Does Dividend Growth Investing Actually Mean?Oct. 19, 2020 10:00 AM ET|| Includes: CL, JNJ, KO, MO, NLY, PG, XOMby: Regarded SolutionsRegarded Solutions Portfolio strategySummaryThe true definition of dividend growth investing is quite clear, but I am finding plenty of folks here really do not understand it.
There are enough new investors here that I thought I would offer my own definition of what dividend growth investing actually is - to me anyway.
I am not trying to convince anyone how they should invest, but a concise definition might clear up some misconceptions.
Source: Pixabay
There are so many different roads that an investor can use to become financially secure that, even if I actually knew them all, it would take days to list them all! I do know that there are a handful of approaches that most people choose, so I will just list them:
Stock picking based on the fundamentals of a company, or the technicals that many day traders use Momentum trading, which means to me when a stock is on a hot streak, investors hop on for the ride Day trading, which means never investing in a stock, but picking one that fits a particular trend and buying and selling within each day. Following the herd investing, which to me means it happens to be a popular stock, or an IPO, or a strong sector; tends to be trend investing, not for the long term Contrarian trading, which to me is going against conventional wisdom and buying stocks for large rebounds and short-term gains I left off dividend growth investing because that is the approach I am focusing on. So I will go into more detail, in my own simple way, for folks to understand how I define it.
Dividend Growth Investing
The popularity of this long-term buy-and-hold strategy has lots of traders calling it a "cult," and in some ways it might be! I know I wouldn't invest any other way, and I have tried them all over the last 50 years. So I am part of the... Read more
| Stock name | Last trade | P/E | Earnings/Share | Dividend/Share | Dividend yield | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANNALY CAPITAL MANAGEMENT | 8.60 | 0.0 | -3.32 | 1.20 | 14.00 | |||||||
| ALTRIA GROUP | 44.46 | 13.2 | 3.36 | 3.36 | 7.23 | |||||||
| EXXON MOBIL | 71.98 | 17.3 | 4.15 | 3.48 | 4.83 | |||||||
| COCA-COLA | 55.11 | 33.6 | 1.64 | 1.60 | 2.94 | |||||||
| JOHNSON & JOHNSON | 130.43 | 21.6 | 6.03 | 3.80 | 2.93 | |||||||
| PROCTER & GAMBLE | 122.77 | 90.3 | 1.36 | 2.98 | 2.49 | |||||||
| COLGATE PALMOLIVE | 72.29 | 27.5 | 2.63 | 1.72 | 2.38 |