The acceleration of payment dates also impacts future dividend growth rates.
If you buy 100 shares at that price, future dividend payments will be made based on your number of shares, not a change in stock price.
The reason this is a bad idea is because dividends are why people invest (yes, really: capital gains are simply the capitalisation into stock prices of future dividend streams, basic financial accountancy 101).
Since future earnings growth will be the primary driver of future capital appreciation and dividend income, it logically follows that forecasting future growth is the key to future investment success.
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Examine the profitability and future growth for dividend-paying companies, and not necessarily the perceived added cost to high-income investors.
In Canada the trusts can raise fresh capital to expand energy holdings and theoretically keep rolling into the big-dividend future.
The consequences are an extraordinarily large number of special dividend declarations, the early payment of typical first-quarter dividends, and the future adverse impact on dividend growth rates for certain companies.
So, even if trouble does hit this stock in the near future, this solid dividend should help to alleviate some concerns of more risk adverse investors.
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Over the short term, Schoenstein expects high-quality companies will take advantage of their robust cash to invest for future growth while simultaneously increasing dividend payments and repurchasing shares.
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But which of these three stocks is most likely to deliver the biggest dividend hikes in the future?
Lower ratios suggest a higher likelihood of dividend hikes in the future.
As if announcing a massive fourth quarter loss wasn't bad enough, Hesse had to tell shareholders that there wasn't much hope of receiving a dividend in the foreseeable future.
I'm willing to bet that the dividend will be restored in the near future.
They have discussed using some of the money raised for a one-off payment to the state, representing the bank's estimate of the present value of its future profits up to 2014, when the special dividend is due to be scrapped.
Our hope is that the one-two punch of a cash and stock dividend could portend pleasant results for shareholders in future years!
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Based on past performance, moves the company is making to position itself for the future and shareholder-friendly actions such as increasing the dividend, Target is looking more attractive.
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Investors would likely tolerate very low dividend-price ratios, in expectation of future growth of GDP, and so governments could probably refinance their debt at much better rates today.
Dividends are paid at the discretion of corporate boards and managers, so the fact that zero or at least very few companies are expected to cut their dividend is a show of confidence in the future.
The aim of this process is to produce a portfolio of companies with sustainable dividend yields that are most likely to grow in the future.
If shares change in value, that must reflect a change in investors' assessment of either the prospective dividend flow (for example, because of fears about the future level of profits) or the right discount rate (for example, because of a change in inflationary prospects or in long-term real interest rates), or both.
Seagate said it will fund the dividend and share repurchases through a combination of cash on hand, future cash flow from operations and potential alternative sources of financing.
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At a conference last month in New York, the value investor Michael Price questioned why Wachovia was paying any dividend at all, saying it should eliminate it entirely to preserve capital for future losses.
If I can understand how the company makes money and the future revenues are easy to model, then I have a sense of the cash flows that would support the dividend payout.
In future, pension funds will have to sell shares in companies that do not deliver attractive returns, whether through dividend payments or rising share prices, or both, and invest in those that do.
It is generating enormous cash flows, pays a 4.5% dividend (which it just raised), and will be debt-free in the not too distant future.
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