I am not a stock trader; I am a dividend and value based long-term buy-and-hold investor. When I add a stock to my dividend portfolio, it is my intention to hold the stock forever. I am not smart enough to time the daily gyrations of the stock market. When stock prices start dropping, our primal instinct of flight kicks in and we want to sell. In many cases that is the time to be buying. However, sometimes selling a stock is the right thing to do. In determining when to sell a dividend stock, I have one hard and fast rule: When an individual stock held as a dividend investment lowers its dividend, immediately sell it.
Below are several companies making the case not to be sold by raising their cash dividends:
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12 Stocks Raising Dividends and Expectations
Posted by D4L | Sunday, February 07, 2016 | ArticleLinks | 0 comments »________________________________________________________________
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