
Learn more about dividend stocks, including information about important dividend dates, the advantages of dividend stocks, dividend yield, and much more in our financial education center articles.
The Ten Commandments of Dividend Investing
2018-06-14Dividend investing has taken the world by storm in the past few years, as investors have been...
Is Dividend Investing Good for Millennials?
2018-04-19The transition from the classroom to the workforce has been a difficult one for the average...
How do Mutual Funds Pay Dividends
2018-01-25If you’ve ever opened up your mutual fund statement, you’ve probably, at one point or another,...
Why the Price to Dividend Per Share Ratio Is Better Than the P/E Ratio
2017-11-09When smart investors go looking for stocks, they do not focus on the price of the stock. A stock...
Blockchain and Digital Dividends
2017-10-26The arrival of blockchain technology signals a profound shift in our society. Its implementation...
How Does the T+2 Settlement Cycle Affect Dividend Investors?
2017-09-14On September 5, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Depository Trust &...
Why Do Special Dividends Sometimes Have an Ex-Dividend Date After the Pay Date?
2017-09-07Many investors are focused on the income-generating potential of stocks these days. With the...
What Creates More Value for Investors: Dividend Payout or Share Repurchases?
2017-07-06Share repurchases often make intriguing news headlines, but rarely translate into good investment...
Why Some Stocks Show a Dividend Yield of 0%
2017-05-04Evaluating a security’s dividend data is an essential aspect of successful income...
Why Some Stocks Have a $0 Annualized Payout
2017-05-03Investors in stocks are often looking for income from their investments to help support their...
What Is an Annualized Payout?
2017-04-27There’s nothing better than receiving income for doing nothing. And that’s basically what...
Why Some Stocks Don't Show Dividend Growth
2017-04-20Learning how to evaluate a stock’s dividend characteristics is an important part of income...
Why Some Stocks Have a Payout Ratio of 0%
2017-04-13Dividend investing is all about numbers. Your ability to interpret them will dictate your success...
What Is a DARS Rating?
2017-03-30For dividend-focused investors, finding the best stocks that will ensure years of rising...
What is Dividend Growth?
2017-03-23When it comes to income investing, there are five powerful formulas investors use to evaluate...
Most Watched Stocks List: A Ranking of Premium Members' Favorite Stocks
2017-03-23Dividend.com is constantly developing new and innovative tools to help income investors identify...
Why Doesn’t DARS Rate Every Stock?
2017-03-09One of the most innovative features of Dividend.com happens to be our flagship Dividend Advantage...
Can Australia’s Dividend-Friendly Rules Be Implemented in the U.S.?
2017-01-26Dividends are the cornerstones of many investors’ portfolios. They offer a predictable...
Four Types of Dividends: Four Ways They Are Paid Out
2016-11-04The concept of dividends is basic investing know-how, but often remains unexplained. When you...
The Dividend Scandals You’ve Never Heard About
2016-09-15Did you hear about the company where an inside ring of employees tampered with a quarterly...
What Are Market Catalysts?
2016-09-09After all, markets don’t make big moves without a reason.
Investors often look for catalysts that...
What Should Income Investors Do With Their Unrealised Stock Price Gains?
2016-08-16Recently, we have received a lot of emails asking us for advice on what income investors should...
How to Anticipate a Dividend Cut?
2016-08-16About 500 companies (mostly oil and gas) cut their dividends in 2015. In 2008, this list was...
The Top 3 Dividend Growth ETFs
2016-07-13Dividend stocks are very popular right now, and it is easy to see why. As a source of real...
What Is a Target Payout Ratio?
2016-07-04When going through a firm’s dividend policy, we often find the upper band and the lower...
3 All-American Companies That Pay Dividends
2016-07-04A rising USD has affected many companies in terms of erosion of topline growth. Big conglomerates...
Dividend Yields by Countries
2016-06-01Dividends are a highly valuable source of return for investors. Studies have shown that dividend...
Valuing a Non-dividend Paying Company with the Dividend Discount Model
2016-05-30We saw how we can find out the present value of a dividend paying company here. We also saw how...
3 Dividend Portfolios That You Can Create
2016-05-13Dividend yields, payout ratios, earnings growth estimates, the valuation of a stock and stock...
What Is a Stock Buyback?
2016-05-04A company sells a product or a service, receives the money, pays off its operating expenses and...
Dividend Irrelevance Theory
2016-05-03Modigliani and Miller, famous for their capital structure theories, advanced the dividend...
Put Options and the Ex-Dividend Date
2016-05-02Call options and put options have been a favorite for investors and speculators alike to hedge...
Why Single Digit Earnings Growth Estimates Are Good for Dividend Stocks?
2016-04-29The general market convention suggests that the higher the estimated earnings growth the better...
Call Options and the Ex-Dividend Date
2016-04-27Options have been a favourite instrument amongst investors and speculators alike in hedging and...
What Is an Ideal Payout Ratio?
2016-04-26Payout ratios are not the first thing an investor usually sees when he is investing for...
How Does a Stock Split Affect Dividends?
2016-04-25Below, Dividend.com discusses how stock splits affect dividends. We begin with understanding...
How the Makeup of Shareholder Base Affects Dividend Policy
2016-04-11Companies return cash to shareholders in two ways: through dividend payments or share buybacks....
Why Do Companies Pair Dividends with Share Repurchases?
2016-04-06Many companies that generate excess profits or cash flow decide to return a portion of their...
The REIT Glossary: Must-Know Terms
2016-02-23Real Estate Investment Trusts have evolved into a sector of their own. Equity REITs have already...
What Are Negative Payout Ratios?
2016-02-12To be an income investor, it is critical to analyze not just a stock’s dividend yield but also...
Understanding REIT Valuation
2016-01-18Real estate investment trust (REIT) valuation has been a complex subject for retail investors...
Dividend Policies Explained
2016-01-11Dividend stocks have a large and devoted following in the investment community. There is good...
Dividend-Based Stock Valuation: The Three-Stage Dividend Discount Model
2015-10-21Stock prices are meant to reflect the value of the issuing company, but how is that value...
Dividend-Based Stock Valuation: The H Dividend Discount Model
2015-10-15As previous articles have discussed, investors and analysts often use historical and projected...
Dividend-Based Stock Valuation: The Two-Stage Dividend Discount Model
2015-10-13Using a company’s dividend history to determine the intrinsic value of its stock is a common...
Dividend-Based Stock Valuation: The Dividend Discount Model
2015-10-08There are a number of methods that investors and analysts use to determine the ‘correct’ price of...
An Investor’s Guide to the Business Cycle
2015-07-22The rise and fall of the economy in America and elsewhere can generally be classified into a...
What are Preferred Shares?
2015-04-30Companies that wish to raise capital by issuing stock have two basic options available to them....
Analyzing Transportation Stocks: A Dividend.com Guide
2015-01-14The term “transport stocks” refers to companies that are engaged in the movement of raw materials...
How to Find Undervalued Dividend Stocks
2015-01-12One of the most common pitfalls for investors is their tendency to chase returns in the market;...
Measuring & Managing Risk: A Dividend Investor's Guide
2015-01-09The key to building a solid portfolio is to determine exactly how much risk you are willing to...
The Best Luxury Goods Stocks: An Investor's Cheatsheet
2015-01-09Dividend investing is synonymous with having a conservative strategy, which is why many income...
Dow 30 CEOs: Everything You Need to Know
2015-01-07The famed Dow Jones Industrial Average is comprised of well-known “blue chip” stocks that have...
The Complete History of Apple Stock (AAPL)
2014-12-29It is well known that Apple (AAPL ) is the largest U.S. corporation in terms of market...
How the Dow 30 Reacts to Major Events
2014-12-22Major events, including natural disasters, political happenings and wars, can have a major effect...
Understanding Sky High P/E Multiples
2014-12-19The price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) is one of the most common metrics used in fundamental analysis....
JP Morgan's Fines To Date: A Brief History (JPM)
2014-12-19Since the collapse of financial markets in the 2008 recession, few entities have been as widely...
What Happens When Stocks Announce Dividends?
2014-12-19Prudent income investors know the importance of a reliable payout track record; after all, the...
DRIPs 101: A Guide to Dividend Reinvestment Plans
2014-12-19Dividends do not always have to result in regular cash payments. Many companies offer DRIPs...
The Complete History of the Original Dow Dozen
2014-12-18The original Dow Jones Industrial Average was established for the first time in 1896. When the...
Market Timing Vs. Buy and Hold: Which Is Better?
2014-12-18The merits of market-timing–the ability to correctly anticipate the markets’ short-term major...
Does Berkshire Hathaway Pay Dividends?
2014-12-12Warren Buffett, a man who needs little introduction, is arguably the most famous investor of all...
The History of J.C. Penney’s Stock Price Collapse
2014-12-12J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (JCP ) has gained a lot of attention in the last couple of years as its...
How to Spot a Dividend Value Trap
2014-12-12When looking for dividend stocks, it’s tempting to gravitate towards securities with the highest...
Share Repurchase vs. Dividend: It’s a No Brainer
2014-12-12Here at Dividend.com, we are dead set against the idea of company stock buybacks. That’s not just...
The Biggest Dividend Stock Collapses of All Time
2014-12-11Dividend stocks have become popular partially due to the fact that they are viewed as safe...
Understanding Dividends: What If Dividends Didn't Exist?
2014-12-11Charlie Munger has a great saying that is a very helpful mental tool – invert, always invert. At...
What Is Warren Buffett's Company Name?
2014-12-11Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has grown into one of the largest companies in the world, but...
Tax Inversion & How Big Companies Save Millions in Taxes
2014-12-09The corporate tax rate in the U.S., which currently sits at 35%, has long been a point of...
The Unofficial Dividend.com Guide to Being an Investor
2014-12-05Investing advice seems to be filled with the same old adages and sayings that have been overused...
A Guide to REIT (Real Estate Investment Trust) Dividends
2014-12-05A real estate investment trust (REIT) is a security that trades on exchanges like a normal stock,...
Myths and Facts About Dividend Investing - Dividend.com
2014-12-05Dividend investing can be a great investment strategy for investors, but there are several things...
The 7 Most Famous Product Recalls: How Did Stock Prices React?
2014-12-05In 2014, General Motors (GM ) recalled approximately 25 million vehicles of over 50 different...
Dividend.com’s Cheatsheet to Finding the Best Retail Stocks
2014-12-05The term “retail stocks” refers to companies that are engaged in the selling of finished goods to...
Major Executives Getting Rich Off Dividends
2014-11-25In today’s low-rate environment, income from dividends has never been more important. Nobody...
The Dow 30: A Look Into the Last Five Recessions
2014-11-10Generally speaking, a recession is defined as a decline in GDP for two or more consecutive...
Everything Dividend Investors Need to Know About MLPs
2014-11-06Master limited partnerships—or MLPs—have long been popular products for dividend...
The Truth About the Dividend Payout Ratio
2014-10-30While dividend investing is a great way for investors to get a steady stream of return through...
Foreign Dividends: Tax Rates, Largest Payers, ADRs and ETFs
2014-10-27Investing in foreign dividend stocks is one way to diversify a portfolio. It opens up a whole new...
Free Lunch on Wall Street: 21 Ways Investors Can Make (and Keep) More Money
2014-10-23We’ve all heard it over and over again – there’s no such thing as a “free lunch” on Wall Street,...
A Contrarian Approach to Dividend Investing: Low Price-to-Book Strategy
2014-10-23Finding “cheap,” yet fundamentally-sound companies is a daunting challenge for any dividend...
The Complete Guide to REIT Taxes
2014-10-16Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) generally have high yields, making them popular choices for...
Everything Investors Need to Know About Special Dividends
2014-10-14Special dividends are one-time cash payouts to shareholders (sometimes referred to as special...
40 Things Every Dividend Investor Should Know About Dividend Investing
2014-10-14Top 10 Myths About Dividend Investing
2014-10-10There are dozens of myths out there about dividend investing and how it works. If an investor...
Does It Pay a Dividend?
2014-10-07How to Use Dividend.com
2014-10-03Dividend.com is the leading independent source for information on dividend stocks and securities....
7 Events That Closed the NYSE
2014-10-03Investors are very much used to the New York Stock Exchange closing on weekends and on market...
41 Inspiring And Intelligent Investing Quotes
2014-10-01Investing is by no means a simple process; there are countless considerations that must be paid,...
What Is a Qualified Dividend?
2014-09-30[Updated on April 5, 2018 by Sam Bourgi]
Not all dividends are created equal, and investors need...
Everything Investors Need to Know About Ex-Dividend Dates
2014-09-30When it comes to investing, knowing your dates is important. Although long-term buy-and-hold...
Dividend Capture Strategy: The Best Guide on the Web
2014-09-29The dividend capture strategy is designed to allow income-seeking investors to hold a stock just...