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CenturyLink (CTL): Can The Level 3 Acquisition Save The Dividend?
In today's era of historically low interest rates, telecom service providers such as AT&T (T) and Verizon (VZ) are often viewed as some of the best high dividend stocks for income thanks to their highly stable, recession-resistant, and subscriber-based business models. While that may be a good strategy for blue chip names in the industry, it typically doesn't work nearly as well for smaller, distressed regional telecom players like CenturyLink (CTL). Let's take a look at CenturyLink's 11.5% yield to see if it is too good to be true or if the company's $34 billion acquisition of Level 3 Communications (expected to close very soon) could make the dividend sustainable. Business Overview Founded in 1968 in Monroe, Louisiana, [...]
Accenture (ACN): A High Quality Dividend Growth Stock Benefiting From The Digital Age
Accenture (ACN) has raised its dividend every year since it began paying one in 2005, recording annualized dividend growth en excess of 20% during that time period. With healthy payout ratios, excellent free cash flow generation, a clean balance sheet, and proven durability, Accenture is well-positioned to continue rewarding shareholders with strong dividend growth in the years ahead. Furthermore, while the continued rise of the digital age is creating challenges for many companies, Accenture stands to be a beneficiary of many of these trends. Let’s take a closer look at Accenture to see if this dividend growth stock looks attractive today. Business Overview Accenture is one of the largest professional services companies in the world and provides a [...]
Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR): A High Quality But Often-Overlooked Dividend Growth Stock
Sometimes, the most boring, under-the-radar businesses prove to be the best long-term investments, and Broadridge Financial could be one of them. In fact, Broadridge was called "the most important firm on Wall Street that you've never heard of" by Dick Grasso, the former CEO and chairman of the New York Stock Exchange. Paying higher dividends every year since 2007 and recording double-digit annualized dividend growth, Broadridge is a dividend achiever that boasts an impressive track record. Let's take a closer look at this high quality dividend growth stock to see if the company's future remains bright and if today could be a reasonable time to consider adding to the stock to a diversified dividend portfolio. Business [...]
Updated Thoughts on General Electric (GE)
Knowing how much patience to exercise with an underperforming holding is one of the hardest (and often most humbling) challenges in investing, in my opinion. As a long-term dividend growth investor, when I purchase shares of a company, I hope to hold my ownership stake forever and keep portfolio turnover as low as possible. Of course, that doesn't always happen. The world is always changing, upending investment theses and changing the market's winners and losers. There are two primary reasons why I will sell a holding: (1) I believe the company's long-term outlook has permanently changed for the worse; (2) the company's dividend is at real risk of being cut, which jeopardizes my income stream and potentially my [...]