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'Income Factory' Or 'Dividend Growth Investing?' - You Can Have It Both Ways

Published Fri, 13 Nov 2020 07:47:33 -0500 on Seeking Alpha

Seeking AlphaPortfolio Strategy'Income Factory' Or 'Dividend Growth Investing?' - You Can Have It Both WaysNov. 13, 2020 7:47 AM ET|| Includes: AQN, CVX, D, DUK, EXC, FDL, FRT, HDV, IBM, IRM, KHC, NFG, O, OGE, OMC, PFE, PNW, PPL, PRU, SO, STOR, T, UHT, VLO, VZ, WBA, WPCby: Steven BavariaSteven Bavaria Inside the Income FactoryReal-time insights and alerts on all our Income Factory™ model portfoliosSummaryHaving trouble deciding between an "Income Factory" strategy and a traditional "Dividend Growth Investing" (DGI) strategy? Well, you can have it both ways with an "Income Factory Light"
An "Income Factory Light" is a blended strategy that combines an Income Factory (high yields, earnings growth through reinvestment and compounding) with a typical "Dividend Growth Investing"stock portfolio.
The proportional "blend" you pick determines whether your "river of cash" is higher (8% or so) or lower (around 6%), in return for greater or lesser potential dividend and earnings growth.
The trade-off will reflect how much "current cash comfort" each investor feels they need to enable them to stay committed to holding and reinvesting through market turmoil.
This article provides the "ingredients" for creating an Income Factory Light with whatever blend of DGI stocks and typical Income Factory assets you choose.
(This article was first published last month for our Inside The Income Factory members. Some data has been updated since then. Click here for more info.)

The Income Factory Light
Many investors are attracted to the Income Factory philosophy but are not prepared to go the "Full Monty" and completely give up traditional dividend growth investing ("DGI") strategies that rely on earnings, dividend, and stock price appreciation as their primary engine of growth.
But at the same time, they realize that executing a long-term total-return strategy... Read more