Burnout Payouts: Giving A Hundred And Ten Percent Is Not Sustainable

By Dividend Growth Investor:Over the past few years, I had developed and employed a stock selection strategy based on three criterion. These included screening for valuation, using a set of criteria such as minimum yields, dividend payout ratios and dividend growth.

OR PERHAPS they can. A letter from 172 German-speaking economists published by the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) lambasts the steps taken towards a banking union by euro-zone leaders at a summit last week in Brussels. It has unleashed a counterblast from government heavyweights and their economic advisers, leaving the public even more confused.

By Dividend Screen: I love dividends because they increase my private income. But I don’t like all dividends, only such payments with a sustainable and healthy growth. Recently, I published a list of 10 stocks with not sustainable dividends.

Scott's Investments submits:This is my third article this week focusing on the US Dividend Champions, a list compiled and tracked at DRIP Investing. The list is comprised of stocks which have increased their dividend payout for at least 25 consecutive years.

By Dividend Dog: Many basic materials stocks have dividend yields that exceed Treasury yields. Taking a long-term (10-year) view, many of these firms have steadily paid dividends, increased dividend payouts and generated respecitible returns on euqity. Seven such basic materials firms were found:

By Richard Bloch:A few days ago, I reviewed some of the stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average, focusing on the industrial sector and the consumer sector. In part three of this series, I’m taking a look at the tech stocks in the Dow. Many income investors pay close attention to the percentage of earnings that a company pays out in dividends. After all, a high yield means little if there’s any question as to whether a company can afford to maintain or raise its dividend payments.

Zvi Bar submits:The dividend payout ratio is often an important factor when considering dividend-paying investments. The ratio measures the size of a dividend payment compared to the company's net income. A higher dividend payout ratio leaves a lower percentage of total income within the company. This means that while the owners are receiving income, the company’s ability to grow may be hampered by a lack of income to reinvest.

Dividends Beating Bond Yields by Most in 15 Years More U.S. stocks are paying dividends that exceed bond yields than any time in at least 15 years as profits rise at the fastest pace in two decades.