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Showing posts with label dividend cover ratio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dividend cover ratio. Show all posts
Monday, 27 May 2024

Checking the safety of dividend payments

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Dividends are an important part of total returns from owning a share.   Dividends are a cash payment and therefore the company needs to have...
Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Checking the Safety of Dividend Payments using Free Cash Flow Dividend Cover

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A quick way to check whether cash flow is sufficient to pay dividends is by using the free cash flow dividend cover ratio. This is calcul...
Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Beware the "yield trap".

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Understandably, income investors study dividend yields quite closely. After all, a share on a dividend yield of 5% will pay out twice as ...
Friday, 3 February 2012

3 Investing Traps -- And How To Avoid Them

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These tips should help you sidestep some common accounting pitfalls. Alcoholics have 12 steps. Grievers have five stages. Investors have ...
Sunday, 18 April 2010

Calculate investor ratios

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Investor ratios are used by existing and potential investors of mostly publicly listed companies.  They can be obtained or calculated where ...
Wednesday, 17 June 2009

Which shares for income?

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Which shares for income? The yield on BT of 19pc sounds good, but remember the adage "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. ...

Dividends: Which are safe and which may fall?

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Dividends: Which are safe and which may fall? Key: Dividend cover = Earnings / Dividend The income from shares offers some protection again...
Saturday, 11 April 2009

Which shares for income?

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Which shares for income? The yield on BT of 19pc sounds good, but remember the adage "if it looks too good to be true, it probably is. ...
Friday, 6 February 2009

Investing for income: Dividend yield and Dividend cover ratio

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Investing for income: Where savers can escape zero interest rates As deposit accounts pay next to nothing, dividends on shares seem attracti...