/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>158751
If you're buying stock for dividends, you're buying stock for long term investment, meaning way longer than a year. With this in mind, you invest in what's called bluechip shares. Google which bluechip shares are "strong" in your market and buy them at a low, I made the mistake of buying my bluechip shares at a high, right before the FED tapering and I lost a few hundred. Life is suffering.

>And are dividend stocks worth it?
Kind of.

If you want to buy stocks for the long term and just buy them and forget about them, kind of like a high interest bank account without the risk (and with more return), then yeah. With higher risk stocks, you can easily make a few points of percentages within a few weeks, sometimes easily exceeding what you'd get with reinvested dividends, that being said finding these stocks takes a lot of time and research, the likes of which many people don't have.

Go for GNI; it's been paying out regular dividends for close to 100 years, and is paying out 48% right now

[spoiler]98 years in fact, in 2015 the "company" dissolves, as it's been paying out a trust.[spoiler]

>>158802
lol the ASX branch of that company doesn't pay dividends and looks like failing penny stock. 0/10.

>>158751
Dividend stocks have beaten out non-dividend stocks by a large margin in history.

You won't get the romanticized (and risky) 30% gains that people love talking about, but they're generally a safe place to keep your money if you're looking for 4-8% a year with little risk.

AT&T offers a 5.7% dividend and is at it's yearly low, for reasons I do not understand
BP is hated for it's oil spill but has fantastic financials, people seem to be avoiding it purely based on emotions so even though it's at a few years high it still has an extremely low P/E of like 6.8 and a dividend of like 4.5%

>>158844
>people seem to be avoiding it purely based on emotions so even though it's at a few years high it still has an extremely low P/E of like 6.8 and a dividend of like 4.5%

No, people are avoiding it because they still have a fuckload of lawsuits that can ruin the company at any given moment. They aren't nearly out of the mess they made in the gulf.

As for AT&T, Sprint is a major competitor now and Verizon is way more credible in the cell phone market, and they are carrying a ton of debt.

>>158844
BP should be cashing in on new fracking and shale oil technologies in the near future, energy companies are going to be great 2015-2018. At present, fracking is a major fail with every oil prospecting company reporting failure and "poor oil" everywhere. BP would be great stock to buy at a low.

>telecomms
Euch, I just don't understand this sector.

>mining fails
>financial fail
>governments fail
>telecomms.... are up!
Why?

>>158751

$FTR tends to trade between $4-$5. It pays about a 10% dividend. It's a decent position to have a couple percentage points in your dividend portfolio as a very-very long term play.

OP, if you're feeling balsy, invest in some mREITs. some of these are paying 10%-15% dividends

But remember that financial instruments like these are what almost crashed the economy in 2008

the more you know

>pic related - Ronaldo knows who issued these kinds of financial instruments

>>158886
>FTR
Dang, ex-dividend on March 5th. Should I put $10,000 in it?

teu

>>158894
You realise the stock will drop by the dividend amount (by the very least) on xdiv date, yeah? Don't worry about the xdiv date, buy at a low, set them to reinvest your dividends and just let your investment grow.

Some dividend stocks I like are:

>DDT
>RLH-A
>ARR-A
>MET-B
>GSF
>NGG