Up in Canada, one of the financial journalists I like to follow is John Heinzl. The reason is quite simple: he is a proponent of the dividend investing strategy and I have learned a lot about the strategy from him. In this video he talks about one of the important ratios that can indicate how healthy a dividend is coming from a particular company - the dividend payout ratio.
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2 hours ago
when an american companies pay to many dividend to their shareholders
ReplyDeletewhen the result per share is $4,00 and the yield is 2% I donot understand why a company pays 40dollarscent EIGHT dollarcent is equally to the yield
the european method of dividend is better
40% of the gain is paid to the shareholders means
40% of $1 is 40 dollarcent when there is alost there will be not paid any dividend rejecting to the gain