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

To: Triffin who wrote (11229)	2/29/2012 2:45:41 PM
From: Kip S	Respond to of 34328

Triffin, You mentioned one thing I have often wondered about--the (presumably) one-time dividend reduction. Many stocks I have been looking at (especially utilities if I recall correctly) cut their dividends around 2000-2004. Do you feel they are "safe" yet as steady increasers since then? I know it would be preferable to find companies that "never" cut the divvy, but I find that too limiting. Do you consider apparent intentions to maintain and grow the dividend going forward as being important enough to outweigh a cut like Avista or Sempra made early in the last decade? Of course, I know, you cannot safely ignore a stock. "benign neglect" sounds good.