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July 15, 2016 Dividends 3 Comments

3 Stocks to Buy With Dividends Yielding More Than 4%

3 Stocks to Buy With Dividends Yielding More Than 4% Dividend investors love stocks with high yields, but they should take care never to sacrifice quality for income. If the underlying business can’t support its dividend in the long term, then investing your money in it could be a huge mistake. It’s best to … […]

July 2, 2016 Dividends No Comments

3 Dividend Aristocrats to Buy in July

3 Dividend Aristocrats to Buy in July The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats are companies that have upped their dividend payments to investors for at least 25 consecutive years. Increasingly, investors are considering this collection of companies ideal investments to own in income portfolios. Continue reading at fool.com A New Source For Dividend Growth Investors: The […]

June 21, 2016 Dividends No Comments

7 Pharmaceutical Stocks With Dividends Yielding More Than 3%

7 Pharmaceutical Stocks With Dividends Yielding More Than 3% Many income-focused investors naturally gravitate toward stocks that offer up the highest dividend yield. For healthcare investors, that typically means choosing from a list of big pharmaceutical stocks, since large-cap drug companies tend to offer some of … Continue reading at fool.com Five Dividend Stocks To […]

May 26, 2016 Dividends No Comments

Wells Fargo: Dividend Snapshot

Wells Fargo: Dividend Snapshot If you’re looking for a good dividend stock in the banking sector, you could do a lot worse than Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC). The 154-year-old bank has made its quarterly payout a priority over the years, and its dedication to distributing profits is alive and … Continue reading at fool.com Are The […]

May 25, 2016 Dividends 13 Comments

Should eBay Start Paying a Dividend?

Should eBay Start Paying a Dividend? eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) has a rock-solid balance sheet and generates healthy cash flows on a regular basis. If management wanted to distribute dividends to investors, the company certainly has the financial resources to do so. However, just because eBay has the … Continue reading at fool.com Dividend Health Checkup Podcast […]

May 24, 2016 Dividends One Comment

3 Stocks With a Bigger Dividend Than Coca-Cola

3 Stocks With a Bigger Dividend Than Coca-Cola Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE:KO) is widely considered to be one of the safest and strongest dividend stocks in existence. The beverage maker has a staggering 54-year history of consecutive dividend increases, earning it the coveted “dividend aristocrat” status. Continue reading at fool.com Ex-Dividend Reminder: Corning, Aircastle and Elbit […]

April 29, 2016 Dividends 19 Comments

Top 10 Financial Ratios for Successful Dividend Investing

Top 10 Financial Ratios for Successful Dividend Investing Dividend investing is part art, part science. Financial ratios make up most of the science behind investing. What exactly are financial ratios? For the purposes of this article, we define financial ratios as any number or calculation used by dividend … Continue reading at investorplace.com Ex-Dividend Reminder: […]

April 3, 2016 Dividends One Comment

These 3 Dividend Stocks Could Slash Their Payouts

These 3 Dividend Stocks Could Slash Their Payouts Sometimes it’s necessary, although it’s never pretty: from time to time, firms slash their dividends. Rarely will a company signal its intention to do so — management will often insist that the dividend remains a top priority even as its core business is … Continue reading at […]

Lubaszka explain, "It's probably best for the first time investor to begin conservatively by purchasing physical metals instead of gold stocks, which can be very volatile". According to Clearwater, Fla.-based talk show host and gold analyst, Tom O'Brien, when metals gain 20%, gold equities jump by fifty or sixty per cent. That's great when it happens but the reverse can occur as well.

Performance will vary. Fund performance often falls off and risk levels rise during the subsequent three years after a fund is given an initial five-star Morningstar rating, suggests another recent study by Matthew Morey, a professor at Pace University. One reason for this is that after receiving a five-star rating the size of the fund grows dramatically, which then makes the fund unwieldy to manage, he suggests. Since Morey's study was completed, Morningstar also has changed the way it doles out top rankings to make them more precise. One of the biggest problems with all rating systems is that they are not necessarily predictive in nature. This means they're not really set up to tell you whether certain funds will necessarily do better in the future. For the most part, the ratings indicate how much you might have made and how much aggravation you faced in the process.

In some cases, in fact, it's not even the same fund to begin with. Remember, after a management change, the rating stays with the fund, not the portfolio manager. Therefore, a fund's rating might be based almost entirely on the track record of a manager who is no longer with the fund.