What remains to be seen is if it can maintain its current dividend growth rate.
Boyar expects its current dividend yield of 2.34% will rise significantly over the next few years.
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That could allow for a massive increase in the current dividend yield of about 2.4%.
Seagate has a current dividend yield of 3.92% and a payout ratio of 32%.
Add that to the current dividend yield and you've got about 3.5% of real return.
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Earlier this month, it had a current dividend yield of 3.32% with a payout ratio of 33%.
Under these circumstances, the only way a company can maintain its current dividend is to raise the payout ratio.
The second largest integrated oil and gas company, behind Exxon Mobil ( XOM), has a current dividend yield of 5%.
The chart below shows the current dividend of each of the stocks, as well as their respective Fiscal Cliff Cost.
And yes, they all have strong current dividend yields as well: 2.6% for Aflac and Exxon-Mobil and 3.2% for Walgreens.
Yep, its current dividend payout ratio is 231% of its net income.
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"I'd rather trade off a little bit of current dividend yield for sustainable dividend growth, " says Chuck Carlson, editor of DRIP Investor.
From a strictly financial standpoint, Molchanov believes the current dividend can me maintained, but with politics entering the picture, the calculation becomes a tougher one.
And the current dividend yield is a spectacular 11% this year.
But with a decided tilt: dividend growth over current dividend yield.
The current dividend rate affirms an annual yield of 2.9%.
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This defensively-aligned REIT has maintained a remarkable track record of risk control and that skilled and sophisticated risk-management strategy has made Realty Income the mark of a superior dividend operation (Realty Income current dividend is 5.4%).
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When we are going through our analysis on stocks to buy, it is not what we make our sole decision on, but if it has a good current dividend yield, that is attractive to us in this slow growth environment.
Christopher Davis, an analyst at Morningstar, says that the biggest advantage of actively managed funds is the expertise behind them: A professional manager can judge when a company is financially solid enough to maintain, or even raise, its current dividend, and it might be tough for casual investors to make that call.
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Coke is a special case because it is both a high current-dividend stock and a serial dividend grower.
The current qualified dividend rates will be taxed as ordinary income.
The current annualized dividend paid by Piedmont Natural Gas Co.
We support efforts by some in Congress to extend the current 15% dividend tax rate to 2011 and beyond.
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Investors seem to be betting that surging demand for Gulfstream products will enable the company to maintain its current 3% dividend even as mature military lines throw off less cash.
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McCoy may decide to go ahead and maintain the dividend at current levels.
It also happens to be one of the highest-yielding major American blue chips, with a 3.5% dividend at current prices.
While all taxpayers would enjoy the benefits of lower income tax rates, higher income folks are more likely to reap the rewards from an extension of the current capital gains and dividend rates.
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The dividend yield at its current price is 5.0% and the company has paid an additional 5% stock dividend each year for the past ten years.
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The company pays a 2% dividend, the current ratio is 1.8 and long-term debt-to-equity is .39.
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