Sitting here this morning and the talking heads on CNBC mentioned "Comcast" (CMCSA). Comcast has three classes of stock... but I don't want to talk about "a" stock... and this isn't about Comcast. I don't own it - never looked at it - hate the service when I had it in my house. Here's what I noticed when I looked at the 5 year chart and what I wanted to post about:
Think about if you were retired in 2010... and you owned Comcast "A" shares... and they paid you .09 per quarter. FOUR YEARS later - they're paying you .23 cents per quarter (did you ever get a 100% raise in four short years while working??) - and as a bonus the price of the shares is up 230%
With that kind of a number you could then sell HALF your holdings in this name - and buy something(s) else - and still get the same income you'd counted on 4 years earlier - and use the gain to diversify some more. The shares you held would be considered "playing with the house's money" as they would essentially be "free money" (the gain on the shares).
THAT IS WHY I LOVE DIVIDEND INVESTING -- which, by the way, is not the only way to invest! It's just one way to look at stocks. I like it because it works for me in good times and bad.
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