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

To: Ditchdigger who wrote (24292)	1/28/2016 10:18:59 AM
From: JimisJim	1 Recommendation Recommended By Thehammer Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

Wait... what? Have not seen that in TD... Fido has had it for years, but have not seen it available in TD -- was it part of that software change they made (mostly annoying) last year? If so, where/how do you get to it? Also, I forgot to mention about HP and NOV -- part of why they are on my shopping list for... whenever... is that HP has a long history of being a divvy aristocrat (though they are likely going to drop off that list soon, if they haven't already) and I'm confident they will be again... NOV has only in recent years even paid a divvy, but their intentions seem to be to join the club in aggressive fashion when things turnaround -- in the mean time, something to consider (and yet another reason I've kept it on my list) is that NOV's got about $3 billion in cash and despite being nearly wiped out in share prices (not unusual in busts -- I remember when I worked at VRC during big busts, the share price once went to less than $3 before recovering to over $70 a few years later), they still had lots of cash to acquire other companies -- which is how they ended up a large cap (they were decidedly a small cap when I joined and had M&A'ed their way to large cap before I left)... good luck!

To: Ditchdigger who wrote (24292)	1/28/2016 11:11:37 AM
From: Thehammer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34328

Speaking of TD and dividends, I like TD's new feature which allows one to be able to select and deselect dividend reinvestment for individual stocks. I am surprised that more firms don't offer this feature. I see that someone replied about Fidelity's having it for years. It really isn't that difficult. In the early 2000's i was working on a major project and some of FIDO's technology executives graciously agreed to discuss their direction / vision. The only thing that I recall is that they had a vision and they were investing billions to make it come true.