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I invest in stocks and options. I manage DivGro, a portfolio of dividend growth stocks created in January 2013. The primary goal of DivGro is to generate a reliable and growing dividend income stream. I sell options to boost my income stream, both covered calls and secured puts. My blog hosts a ...more

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Automatic Data Processing Dividend Increase
10 days ago

Mad About Money -- I inadvertently removed your comment -- so sorry about that. Here is your original comment and my reply:

"You note that your yield on cost is 4.60% based on your original purchase price — how do you think recent share-price appreciation (to roughly $255.22) affects the attractiveness of Automatic Data Processing (ADP) going forward? In other words — given the lower forward yield (~ 2.66 %), do you expect future dividend growth to compensate, and what dividend-growth rate would make ADP still compelling at today’s price?"

Yes, I think ADP is still a compelling buy. At today's price, the stock is modestly undervalued (by about 12%). Since I haven't updated my own database in a while, I'll quote GuruFocus dividend data:
Forward yield: 2.64%
5-Year DGR: 12.2%
5-Year YOC: 4.27%
Dividend Payout Ratio: 0.61

My ADP investment delivered a YOC of 4.6% over 5.75 years. Using GuruFocus' data, investing now could deliver 4.9% over the next 5.75 years. 

(4.27*5.75/5 = 4.91)
 

In this article: ADP
McDonald's Dividend Increase
1 month ago
As mentioned in the article, McDonald's have delivered an annualized return of 12.3% since I opened my position in September 2014. That's more than satisfactory, in my view. I own higher-yielding stocks, such as $MAIN, $MO, and $O. Of the three, only $MAIN is outperforming McDonald's, and only just with an annualized return of 13.6%. On the other hand, I have several low-yield, high-growth positions with annualized returns above 25% (see https://www.divgro-2-0.com/divgro-portfolio/)
In this article: MCD
Starbucks Dividend Increase
1 year ago
The first sentence should read: "On 23 October, Starbucks (SBUX) increased its quarterly dividend by 7.02%, from 57¢ to 61¢ per share."
In this article: SBUX
Why Invest In Low Dividend Yield Stocks?
1 year ago

I'm certainly restoring the balance between HiG and HiY stocks in my portfolio. Of course, I also own stocks that offer both yield and growth, like ABBV.

Covid-19 Dividend Cuts
5 years ago

Agreed. Add to that many "shared experience industries" -- restaurants, theaters, shows, theme parks, concerts, festivals, conferences, etc. etc. Any "comeback" will be muted by reduced attendance (enforced or by choice).

Covid-19 Dividend Cuts
5 years ago

You're welcome! Thanks for commenting!

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