Dividend stability:Does it have a margin of safety between how much it earns and how much it pays in dividends? Thepayout ratio, which is the percentage of profits that a company spends on dividends, is a useful way to measure this. This metric is best used over an extended period, not...
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My experience with talking to people (outside this community) is they don’t want to hear about frugality and strategies to become FI. They have their hand in the candy jar and don’t want to hear about what would happen if they removed it. They like going to Costco and filling up th...
Drivers License & a bunch of credit cards I never use. I almost always go debit except on gas/airfare which I tend to use the Costco AMEX. nice kickback. A bunch of receipts (was on a biz trip recently and have not done expenses) ...
But bonds today pay nothing. And even I can’t live on nothing. If I buy stocks with a handsome dividend, I run the risk of it being cut. High dividend yields usually mean unstable dividends. Likely, the stock price will fall even further. ...
Dividend stability:Does it have a margin of safety between how much it earns and how much it pays in dividends? Thepayout ratio, which is the percentage of profits that a company spends on dividends, is a useful way to measure this. This metric is best used over an extend...
In the U.S., most companies that pay a dividend will distribute it more or less evenly over four quarters. In many economies outside the U.S., it is common to split the annual dividend into quarterly payments with one of the payments being much larger than the others. It is also not...
Once privatized, private businesses such asCostcoandWalmartcould sell liquor to the general public. All previously state-run stores were sold to private owners or closed, and the state ceased collecting all revenue from liquor sales. One of the most famous and historically important examples of pr...
TheNasdaq Composite IndexandNYSE Composite Indextrack the performance of all equities listed on each stock exchange. The weight that each constituent has on the overall index is based on market capitalization, with both the price return anddividend yieldof each constituent factoring into movements of...
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a basket of securities that trades on an exchange just like a stock does. ETF share prices fluctuate all day as the ETF is bought and sold; this is different from mutual funds, which only trade once a day after the market closes. ETFs offer low expense...