The Dividend Family Guy

Company Name Symbol Industry No. Years Dividend Yield Sector EPS% Payout AmTrust Financial Services Inc. AFSI Financial Services 11 3.68 Financials 29.31 Williams-Sonoma Inc. WSM Retail-Home Products 12 2.91 Consumer Discretionary 45.48 Donegal Group Inc. A DGICA Insurance 14 3.12 Financials 48.25 Archer Daniels Midland ADM Agriculture 42 2.78 Consumer Staples 58.99 Old Republic International ORI Insurance 36 3.71 Financials 47.50 Best Buy Corp. BBY Retail-Electronic 15 2.77 Consumer Discretionary 36.17 Span-America Medical Systems SPAN Medical Equipment 18 2.92 Health Care 43.54 Cracker Barrel Old Country CBRL Restaurants 14 2.89 Consumer...

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I had 2 announcements come my way last week for stocks in my taxed portfolio. The first was from AGNC - American capital Agency Corp announcing the quarterly dividend will be remaining at $.65/share. The second was by Windstream Holdings. They also maintained their dividend of $.25/share. AGNC is a real estate investment trust investing primarily in agency mortgage-backed securities. Because it is a REIT it is paying a high yield of 11.77%. It has been maintaining this since the cut in September of 2013. It has only been cutting the dividend so I do not see good things in the future. I bought this in my early days of investing and was only chasing yield at the time. Needless to say it has grown at all for me and the stock price has remained the same. I only have a few shares so I will reevaluate this if the dividend ever gets cut. Windstream Holdings (WIN) is my largest position in my taxed portfolio. It's current yield (8.9%)is a little bit lower than AGNC but still pretty hi...

So I own a few shares of Horizon Technology Finance Corp. They recently announced the monthly dividend of .115/share. This has been the same since they went to monthly payouts in 2013. This purchase was back before I knew too much so I bought it based on 3 things. High dividend yield. Currently around 9.65 Dividend frequency. Thought it would build compound faster at a monthly rate Share price. Thought I could buy more shares initially which would help in the long run. But it doesn't lead to greater returns in the long run. My post on does price matter shows some good examples. What I know today that would have deterred me from this stock. Do more research when the yield is higher than 4%. Sometimes there are reasons and sometimes it is a sign of a bad or declining company. The payout ratio has been way above 100% since 2012. A good investor should focus on companies that keep this below 75% unless it is a REIT or MLP. Horizon is a finance company loaning out money to ...

I was sitting at my desk and got an alert on my phone.  The price of WIN jumped way up (52 week high of $13.30).  I was very curious as to why but since my time is not my own I had to wait until lunch to see what was going on. Looks like Windstream (WIN) is going to attempt to spin of assets into a publicly traded REIT.  I have a 37% of my taxable portfolio allocated to WIN.  I used to work for the company so I understand the business.  However I purchased these stocks before I knew much about dividend investing and evaluating stocks .  I did a quick screen of stocks under $15 dollars that had the highest yield.  Never even looked at the P/E, dividend growth rate, or even knew what a dividend aristocrat was.   That was about four years ago and not much has changed with the company.  Yes I collect a nice dividend every quarter but it hasn't moved and neither has the companies stock price.  Then along comes this year.  I can on...