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Strategies & Market Trends : Dividend investing for retirement -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Felix who wrote (7044)	1/2/2011 7:24:07 PM
From: chowder	Respond to of 34328

>>> it is about the recurring dividends and not top line growth <<< I agree! Which is why I'm not posting top line growth figures even though they were very respectable. I have an IRA rollover account that I don't add additional funds to. I've had that account open for two years now and the yield on cost is 6.8%. Yield on cost is important to me since I'm not adding funds to that particular portfolio and I'm hoping to hold those companies for a long time. I increased the dividend income in that portfolio for 2010 by 40.8% but it isn't really a good example to use for the dividend growth strategy. Some of the companies I owned in the previous year weren't able to pay dividends for the entire year because of the timing of the purchases and they did pay the entire year this year, thus inflating the dividend growth percentage. This is the year where I should get a better handle on what to expect going forward. All companies will have an opportunity to pay all expected dividends. Edit - The yield on value for that account is 5.2% ... yield on cost 6.8%.