Income
Steady income in a volatile sector
What would you think of a stock that had the following characteristics:
Current yield: 7.7%
No dividend quirks: Not a LP, MLP or foreign stock with withholding rules.
Steady dividend growth: 2004: $1.55 per share, 2005: $2.00 per share, 2006: $2.09 per share, 2007: $2.20 per share and a minimum of $2.27 for 2008.
The quarterly dividend has never [...]
Nordic American Tanker dividend guidance
Nordic American Tanker (NAT: 35.78 +0.74 +2.11%) has issued a press release today concerning their results for the 2nd quarter of 2008. Here are a couple of the high points:
The Imarex Tanker Index for the 2nd quarter was $70,625 vs. $43,635 for Q1.
NAT’s results may differ from the Imarex index.
The second quarter dividend to be [...]
Income Portfolio quarterly review
On this site I track a pair of stock portfolios, an Income Portfolio and a Special Oportunities Portfolio. The primary purpose of these portfolios is to keep track of the performance of stocks I am interested in and I write about here. I want to start with several caveats about the portfolios.
These are not recommendations [...]
High yield fund at a discount
I added the Alpine Global Dynamic Dividend Fund (AGD: 13.08 +0.25 +1.95%) to this site’s Income Portfolio primarily to get some exposure to higher yielding international stocks. I like the fund for several reasons:
It gives exposure to high-yielding international stocks.
They do not use leverage or pay out capital to sustain the dividend.
They use a dividend [...]
Change of fortune for my 3 problem stocks?
As the end of the 2nd quarter nears, I am getting a few rays of hope from the three stocks that have caused the most head scratching over the last quarter. All three were chosen for this site’s tracking portfolios as well as my personal accounts because they appeared to be good companies that the [...]
