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

To: Triffin who wrote (13438)	12/14/2012 5:45:29 PM
From: chowder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

>>> I'm monitoring D, CLF, and EXC for potential dividend cuts in 2013 .. <<< D ??? ... Do you think D is going to cut the dividend? I don't follow CLF, no opinion there. I do agree with you on EXC though. I think the cut will be in their best interest and it's only then, that I would consider a re-entry.

To: Triffin who wrote (13438)	12/14/2012 6:02:02 PM
From: JimisJim	Respond to of 34328

<When GE pays out it's dividend, what do I do with it ?? I buy more stock .. When GE does a share buyback, it amounts to the same thing> No, not really the same at all... if they used all of the money for divvies, you'd get a lot more cash/stock right now and not have to wait for the theoretical share price rise from shrinking the float... at least that's the way I feel about it -- give ME the cash/stock reinvest NOW, all of it -- who knows what will happen if/when/before any share price rise from share buybacks. I'll go along with the rest of your post, and I understand your thinking. I, too, don't really understand GE's biz and have not even considered it for my DGI portfolio... that divvy cut... Not saying it's a bad company or bad investment, just doesn't fit my "screen"... I like your idea about buying former Aristocrats, etc. when they take their hits after cutting divvies, but not enough to get me to buy GE for now... if they cut them once in the past more or less out of the blue after years of increasing divvies, they might do it again... all depends on who's in charge at any given moment of course... but like dabum, I am mostly focused on companies that will be increasing that divvy faster than inflation year after year regardless of economic environment... I don't have enough liquid investible assets to retire any other way -- unless I start income streams from some of this unused real estate I still have (some of it agricultural)... I will really be counting on the income stream from the DGI portfolio to retire comfortably in a few years and don't want to have to rely on cap gains. Best, Jim