I recently posted a Letter to the Editor to the Early Retirement Planning Insights site entitled Can We Measure Whether Dividend Payments Are “Keeping Up” with Price Increases?
Juicy Excerpt: Is it possible to determine on a year-by-year basis how S&P investors are doing by seeing whether the dividend payout they are obtaining is keeping pace with the growth in the price of the index? Is it possible that there were years in the 1990s in which S&P investors thought they were doing well because they focused on the price of the index to assess where they stood but that they were really falling behind on a price-adjusted basis in the sense that the dividend payout was not “keeping up” with the price increase?
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