Dividend Investing Made Easy Quotes

“The most important thing is not to overthink it.”
― Matthew R. Kratter, Dividend Investing Made Easy

“When you earn money from a paycheck, you could get taxed up to 37%.”
― Matthew R. Kratter, Dividend Investing Made Easy

“2.50% and 4.50% today, it is probably reasonably fairly priced (in the current interest rate environment). If the dividend yield is below 2.50%, the stock is probably over-priced, and you should wait to purchase it. If the dividend yield is over 4.50%, there is probably something wrong. Either the company has an enormous amount of debt or underfunded pension obligations (like AT&T), which makes the stock more risky. Or the market is pricing in the chance of a dividend cut. Either way, you are better off sticking with the 2.50% to 4.50% dividend yield range. That’s where the more normal healthy companies will be found.”
― Matthew R. Kratter, Dividend Investing Made Easy

“If the stock that you are considering is a Dividend Aristocrat and it has a dividend yield between”
― Matthew R. Kratter, Dividend Investing Made Easy

“You can just buy the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF. The ticker is NOBL, and this ETF (exchange-traded fund) trades just like a stock. You can purchase it using any brokerage account. Today NOBL trades at $62.65 per share. So if you have $1,000, you can buy 15.96 shares of NOBL (1000 divided by 62.65). You’ll pay an expense ratio of 0.35% to own this ETF. What this means is that if you invest $1,000 in this ETF, you will pay them $3.50 every year for the privilege of owning their ETF.”
― Matthew R. Kratter, Dividend Investing Made Easy

“old things age in reverse. The longer they’ve been around, the longer they will likely be around. This is what’s called “the Lindy Effect.”
― Matthew R. Kratter, Dividend Investing Made Easy

“Here’s how to calculate the dividend yield of a stock: Take the annual dividend payment ($1.56 in this case) and divide it by the current price of the stock ($41.55). In this case, that gives you 0.03754513, or 3.75%. 3.75% is Coke’s current dividend yield.”
― Matthew R. Kratter, Dividend Investing Made Easy

“When you buy a share of stock, you become a partial owner of the business. And as a partial owner, you are entitled to a share of the profits that the business generates. Most mature companies will do 2 things with their profits: They will reinvest some of their profits back into the business in order to grow it. They will return some of their profits to the owners. Profits that are returned to the owners are called dividends. If you own a dividend-paying stock, you will usually get paid a dividend every 3 months.”
― Matthew R. Kratter, Dividend Investing Made Easy