Thread: Dividend paying stocks....

Originally Posted by bmneveu

Looked up some REIT ETFs last night and found that a large amount had SPG as its top holding and PSA in the top 2-3. Gonna do some research on these guys today.

SPG would make me a little nervous from a dividend standpoint because it has actually had a negative 5% growth rate over the last 5 years. And the company's debt-to-equity ratio is almost 4 to 1. Anything over 1.5 isn't my cup of tea. However it's price growth rate over the last 3 years is 46%...not bad!

PSA looks interesting to me. Its 5 year dividend growth rate is almost 10%. It has no debt (!) and it's three year price growth rate is almost 30%. That's probably why Friday's closing price was $124.82. PSA looks like something I'm going to add to my own portfolio, so thanks for bringing it up, bmneveu!

My favorite dividend stock is probably MCD. I was glad to see it on ocean's core list too, because I have so much respect for his expertise.

No prob Steel! I came to similar conclusions on those two guys after quick skims. I have MCD in my prospects list but waiting for a pull back.

Originally Posted by Steel_Magnolia

PSA looks interesting to me.... .

Oops. Just saw PSA's Price to Sales ratio and $12.30 is way to steep for me. I draw the line at about $3.

Edited to add: Except for MCD and KO. I'll stretch it to about $3.50 just for them.

Originally Posted by Steel_Magnolia

My favorite dividend stock is probably MCD. I was glad to see it on ocean's core list too, because I have so much respect for his expertise.

Thanks Maggie, there are a lot of things that I am still learning specially in the stock markets.

I sold some portions of ETF bond funds such as AGG, IEF after the Nov 1 Ex-dividend date so I could collect the Nov dividend payout. After waiting for 3 days for settlement and now I have the cash to purchase additional stocks.

I am looking at either MCD or CVX. Both stocks are already in my portfolio and I would like to add more so I can write more call option contracts. These two stocks were able to sustain the wild market swings last week and that's why I like these stocks even more. If MCD could pull back a bit as bmneven mentioned, I will definitely go with MCD.

Originally Posted by ocean

Thanks Maggie, there are a lot of things that I am still learning specially in the stock markets.

I am looking at either MCD or CVX. Both stocks are already in my portfolio and I would like to add more so I can write more call option contracts. These two stocks were able to sustain the wild market swings last week and that's why I like these stocks even more. If MCD could pull back a bit as bmneven mentioned, I will definitely go with MCD.

I've been looking at both, been on my watchlist awhile. Need to put more funds in the account before I can afford to buy either one. going into div-paying pm stocks and a couple other energy related div payers for the time being. made my list and calculations of shares affordable this morning. been sitting on sideline awhile, partially in, partially out. longterm Roth account mostly, won't be doing much trading in that account. getting harder to save $ for taxable account now they bumped up tsp contribution levels- close budget figuring required. Funding Roth and max TSP come first.

Originally Posted by alevin

"made my list and calculations of shares affordable this morning."

Mind sharing your list? Thanks.

Originally Posted by Mista Magee

Mind sharing your list? Thanks.

Birch is the dividend king around here, I'm still toe in the water young sprout compared to him. My most of my current short list is built from recommendations from paid subscriptions so not really thinking its ok to share unless other publicly available commentators are mentioning or have recently done so.

Here's some that I am ok sharing at the moment, that I've scoped out from fundamentals and from news on FreeStockCharts or other public sources: HUN, OLN, X, RIO, BWP, MTW, AUY. most of these have met my goal for monthly slostoch and Wms %R. AUY is an exception, but looks good for other reasons-increased dividend recently, ADX indicator looks good (monthly), Wms %R doesn't look bad, monthly trend looks good, AUY has some of cheapest production costs among producers.

be sure and do due diligence, I'm no advisor.

I own four of your listed picks. Way to go.

more freebie mining which four?

Most happy to oblige: HUN, OLN, BWP, MTW. I remember when MCD was selling at $18.
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Originally Posted by Birchtree

... I remember when MCD was selling at $18.
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Wish I'd owned it back then. That would have been a sweet ride!