[GregWeld]

Lance --

November is NOT a great month for dividends -- the normal calendar quarterly months are better -- but I just want to show you some DIVIDENDS… This is from the account I use here for posting. I want to ask you if I care during the day what the share price is…

These are all solid companies - and the dividend is as reliable as clockwork (maybe an atomic clock). If I was re-investing these dividends - think about the amount of shares I'd be purchasing EVERY quarter - and by the end of the year think about not only would my dividends be increasing because I have MORE shares -- many of these companies have increased their payout as well - helping to compound even further.

So while you're busy figuring the percentage return on the current dividend -- what YOU ARE MISSING is that I might have bought these companies 5 or 6 years ago for half what they are trading at today -- and my ACTUAL dividend rate is double or triple the current published percentage. So maybe I paid $25 per share for AT&T back in 2009 when it was paying .41 a share per quarter and now I'm getting .48 per share per quarter. Suddenly the current 5.44% rate as quoted today is actually ME earning 7.68% today. Not bad and if you add in the capital growth.. well then I'm looking pretty good for the boring telco stock investment.






11/29/2013 Qualified Dividend SBUX
STARBUCKS CORP
$260.00
11/27/2013 Cash Dividend NTI
NORTHERN TIER ENERGY LP
$7,440.00
11/15/2013 Cash Dividend NNN
NATIONAL RETAIL PPTYS RE...
$8,100.00
11/14/2013 Cash Dividend KMP
KINDER MORGAN ENERGY LP ...
$13,500.00
11/07/2013 Cash Dividend HYG
ISHARES TRUST IBOXX $ HI…
$4,601.62
11/01/2013 Qualified Dividend T
A T & T INC NEW
$9,000.00
11/12/2013 Cash Dividend JNK
SPDR BARCLAYS ETF HIGH Y...
$2,961.68



I should add that JNK and HYG dividends are paid MONTHLY not quarterly. But my point is that when you're looking for investments… dividends are not a bad way to go = and over time - they get better and better. Obviously I have some serious share counts in some of these in order to get these types of dividends - but even if a guy retired with 1/10th of what I'm showing here --- and he gets SS on top of this… he can live decently in retirement. Especially if the monthly bills are under control.