Wednesday 21 September 2011

MSFT - raises it dividend by 25%!!

With so much money on the books - some 63 Billion - and a stock that looked to be stuck in the same range for the last ten years - Microsoft has been under alot of pressure to start returning more monies back to investors. They have rasied the dividend to $0.20 per share per quarter - really good news.

I am glad I decided to up my stake in MSFT on Monday - at the time it seemed to me that it was under valued and I wanted to get enough stock in hand to make use of the synthetic DRIP in my TD account.

MSFT on Barrons

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Monday 19 September 2011

Hello -

Love this article from Seeking Alpha:

MSFT - set to jump?

I really like this as I picked up another 77 shares of this this morning....

Sunday 18 September 2011

Some good stories from the Web

Hello Folks -

Today I thought I would post a couple of links to some articles that I read and found interesting

The Ultimate Sustainable Dividend Portfolio

The strange tale of the Permanent Portfolio

10 Commandments For Dividend Growth Investors

And for those of us just getting started, here is great site run by the same fella that runs The Dividend Guy blog : Whatisdividend.com

Friday 16 September 2011

DRIP math experiment

Hello Folks - it sure has been a bit of a crazy ride in the markets the last few weeks - as we are all aware.

RY.TO up well over one dollar yesterday and today down over a dollar today - no real reason for it that I can see.

As part of why I think Dividend investing is they way to go for me, I conducted a little math experiment on a spreadsheet with my KEG.UN holdings. The holding I have in this are enough for me to do the synthetic DRIP offered by TD Waterhouse, and as a result I get 1 unit each and every month, with a couple of extra dollars left over to accumulate in my account.

The assumptions of the experiment are:
1) - The stock price stays the same throughout
2) - The dividends are accumlated within the account were not DRIPped
3) - Only ran the numbers for three years

I found it interesting that by simply DRIPping my gains of three years outpaced that of Non-DRIPping by nearly 1.8% - by really doing nothing. This of course does not account for the added gains that my occur in the stock itself over that time, or for that matter any increases in the dividend itself.


Have a look: