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Be Realistic About McDonald’s Future Dividend Growth
Investors were excited by MCD’s recent announcement that it would start selling all-day breakfast beginning next month. The stock finished up nearly 3%, outpacing the market (+1.8%) and its peers (+1%). We are less confident that all-day breakfast will reverse declining domestic store sales and keep MCD out of our Top 20 Dividend Stocks list for now – the dividend payment is nice and secure, but the stock’s total return and dividend growth potential appear much less certain to us. START A FREE TRIAL AND FIND THE BEST DIVIDEND STOCKS – CLICK HERE Many of MCD’s competitors already sell breakfast items throughout the day, so joining the foray could help it reclaim some market share. Although breakfast already accounts [...]
Top 5 Dividend Stocks Owned by Warren Buffett
At the end of June 2015, Warren Buffett owned nearly $120 billion worth of equities and more than 80 businesses. Buffett’s investment success is largely derived from his exceptional ability to combine common sense valuation principles with impeccable business judgment. Once he finds a company he believes will continue earning reasonably high returns on capital and reinvesting at similarly high returns, he loads up when the price is reasonable. Not surprisingly, these types of companies have often withstood the test of time and established difficult-to-replicate market positions for various reasons – brand strength (e.g. Gillette), low cost operations (e.g. Nebraska Furniture Mart), and more. While Berkshire Hathaway does not pay any dividends, many of Warren Buffett’s holdings do. Given [...]
Can XOM’s Dividend Weather the Oil Storm?
As long-term dividend investors, beaten down dividend aristocrats always pique our interest. We often screen through the 150+ dividend stocks that have increased their dividends for at least 20 consecutive years, looking for those that have fallen out of favor. XOM has been one of the twenty worst performers on the list due to, you guessed it, the oil crash. We love finding sources of safe, predictable, and growing income, but we hate dividend cuts. Anytime a long-term winner has fallen as fast and as hard as XOM has, you need to ask yourself if something has truly changed to warrant such a crash in the company’s valuation. If the events causing the downfall are deemed to be short-term noise, [...]
What Shrinking Tobacco Demand Means for MO’s Dividend
As long-term dividend investors, we are primarily concerned with finding sources of safe, predictable, and growing income. We do not hold ourselves up nearly high enough to judge what is morally or ethically right or wrong, as practically every company has plenty of issues (both visible and hidden) that could be picked on – the media just enjoys targeting the most visible and widest-reaching issues. Despite the controversial nature of the tobacco industry, MO is a core holding in our Top 20 Dividend Stocks list, which consists of stocks with the safest, fastest-growing dividends that are also trading at a relatively attractive dividend yield today. Another tobacco stock – PM – is in our dividend portfolio for retirees, which [...]