Anticipating Dividend Increases

I am a big fan of companies that make it a regular habit of dialing up a dividend. This is why I have been such a proponent of the dividend aristocrat group. Nothing perturbs me more though than to buy into a 2% dividend stock that I believe will crank up its rate only to be forced to wait multiple years before seeing that increase. To counteract this here is a simple parachute that can increase your confidence that a rate will increase.
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Three Key Ratios For Investors

if you could only have four ratios to evaluate a company what would they be? This is a fun question that is popular in investing circles. For a laugh I’ll take my shot at it, what would you pick?

1) Current Ratio

Current Assets / Current Liabilities
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Dividend Cuts – New Management

In our continuing series on dividend cuts, why they happen and how to learn to see them coming before they hit your portfolio today we are going to look at the curse of new management.
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Why Dividend Rate Cuts Happen – Competition

In our continuing series on dividend cuts and how to avoid them, today we are going to look at what the effects that market and sector pressures have on making company’s cut dividends, and how you can train yourself to see them coming.
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Dividend Rate Cuts – Stale Dividends

Dividend rate cuts are painful and can send your portfolio into a tailspin. Why do they happen and can we see them coming? In our continuing series on dividend rate cuts we are going to look at stale dividends with these questions in mind.
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Buy with a solid Dividend (Session 7)

The final page in our series on Graham’s investment theory is dedicated to dividends. I saved the best, and most contentious for last. Investors love to split themselves into groups- technical analysts, fundamental analysts, value investors, growth investors. In the same vein there are dividend investors and growth investors. Without further adieu let’s get into it.
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Buy a Company with a Future (Current Ratio) (Session 5)

Current ratio is an important one; it shows us how the company will survive in the short term. As I mentioned earlier there are reasons why the company is currently cheap our job is to figure out why and also to build in a safety margin to make sure they are going to survive the reason they are so cheap.
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Buy on the Cheap (Price/Book Ratio) (Session 4)

If you made it through price to earnings ratio, price to book ratio will be a piece of cake.
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