Dividend Increase | Verizon Communications (VZ)
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There's an old Chinese proverb that says "the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is now". The reason for this is that it takes time for a tree to grow and prosper and for you to start reaping its benefits. Dividend growth investing is much the same way. It takes consistent saving and investing as well as time and patience to let the power of dividend growth take hold.
That's why one of my favorite things is when one of the companies I own decides to pay out more in dividends. You mean I get a pay raise just for owning a small piece of a company? Not going and doing R&D for new products or technology. Not selling any products. Not managing any employees or inventory. Not making sales calls. All I had to do was have the foresight to invest some of my savings in excellent companies.
On September 3rd the Board of Directors at Verizon Communications (VZ) approved an increase in the quarterly dividend payment. The dividend was increased from $0.615 up to $0.6275. That's a 2.0% increase which is underwhelming, but in line with expectations for Verizon. Verizon is a Dividend Contender with 16 consecutive years of dividend growth. Shares currently yield 4.15% based on the new annualized payout.
The new dividend will be payable November 2nd to shareholders of record as of October 9th.
Since I own 50.164 shares of Verizon in my FI Portfolio, this raise increased my forward 12-month dividends by $2.51. This is the 7th dividend increase I've received from Verizon since initiating a position in February 2014. Total organic dividend growth over that time is 18.4%.
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Verizon has a 16 year streak of rising dividends dating back to 2005. Verizon has also paid the same or higher dividend dating back to 1984 with a 6 year pause in dividend growth from 1999 through 2004.
During Verizon's current 16 year streak, year over year dividend growth has ranged from 1.3% to 6.4% with an average of 4.2% and a median of 2.7%.
Looking at the rolling 5-year periods during the active dividend growth streak, Verizon's annualized dividend growth has ranged from 2.2% to 4.1% with an average of 3.1% and a median of 3.0%.
The 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year rolling dividend growth rates since 1984 can be found in the following chart.
A full screen version of this chart can be found here.
For dividend yield theory I consider the fair value range to be the forward dividend yield +/- 10% compared to the 5 year moving average, the under/over value area to be to between 10%-20% deviation from the average and significant over/under value are greater than a 20% deviation from the average.
A full screen version of this chart can be found here.
Verizon's 5-year average forward dividend yield is 4.52% which corresponds to a share price of $55.53 based on the new annualized payout.
I consider the fair value range based on dividend yield theory to be the 5-year moving average yield +/- 10%. That gives a fair value range of $50.50 - $61.82 and suggests that Verizon is trading on the upper end of it's fair value range.
Wrap Up
This raise increased my forward dividends by $2.51 with me doing nothing. That's right, absolutely nothing to contribute to their operations. Based on my FI Portfolio's current yield of 2.75% this raise is like I invested an extra $91 in capital. Except that I didn't! One of the companies I own just decided to send more cash my way.
That's how you can eventually reach the crossover point where your dividends received exceed your expenses. That's DIVIDEND GROWTH INVESTING AT WORK! The beauty of the dividend growth investing strategy is that you build up your dividends through fresh capital investment as well dividend increases from the companies you own.
I've now received 29 raises from the companies in my FI Portfolio increasing my forward-12 month dividends by $216.75.
My FI Portfolio's forward-12 month dividends are $7,503.98. Including my FolioFirst portfolio's forward dividends of $104.59 brings my total taxable accounts dividends to $7,608.57. My Roth IRA's forward 12-month dividends are $658.11. My Rollover IRA's forward dividends are $2,932.59. Across all accounts I can expect to receive $11,199.27 in dividends over the next year.
I've also started compiling dividend data on many of the companies that I own or would like to own. Verizon's can be found here which includes the dividend history (as far back as I can find without spending hours hunting it down), rolling dividend growth rates and dividend yield theory. To see other companies that I've already gathered the data on you can check out the Dividend Companies page. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Do you own shares of Verizon? Do you think Verizon will ever be able to start raising dividends faster than ~2% per year or will this be as good as it gets?
Please share your thoughts below.
The 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year rolling dividend growth rates since 1984 can be found in the following chart.
A full screen version of this chart can be found here.
For dividend yield theory I consider the fair value range to be the forward dividend yield +/- 10% compared to the 5 year moving average, the under/over value area to be to between 10%-20% deviation from the average and significant over/under value are greater than a 20% deviation from the average.
Verizon's 5-year average forward dividend yield is 4.52% which corresponds to a share price of $55.53 based on the new annualized payout.
I consider the fair value range based on dividend yield theory to be the 5-year moving average yield +/- 10%. That gives a fair value range of $50.50 - $61.82 and suggests that Verizon is trading on the upper end of it's fair value range.
Wrap Up
This raise increased my forward dividends by $2.51 with me doing nothing. That's right, absolutely nothing to contribute to their operations. Based on my FI Portfolio's current yield of 2.75% this raise is like I invested an extra $91 in capital. Except that I didn't! One of the companies I own just decided to send more cash my way.
That's how you can eventually reach the crossover point where your dividends received exceed your expenses. That's DIVIDEND GROWTH INVESTING AT WORK! The beauty of the dividend growth investing strategy is that you build up your dividends through fresh capital investment as well dividend increases from the companies you own.
I've now received 29 raises from the companies in my FI Portfolio increasing my forward-12 month dividends by $216.75.
My FI Portfolio's forward-12 month dividends are $7,503.98. Including my FolioFirst portfolio's forward dividends of $104.59 brings my total taxable accounts dividends to $7,608.57. My Roth IRA's forward 12-month dividends are $658.11. My Rollover IRA's forward dividends are $2,932.59. Across all accounts I can expect to receive $11,199.27 in dividends over the next year.
I've also started compiling dividend data on many of the companies that I own or would like to own. Verizon's can be found here which includes the dividend history (as far back as I can find without spending hours hunting it down), rolling dividend growth rates and dividend yield theory. To see other companies that I've already gathered the data on you can check out the Dividend Companies page. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Do you own shares of Verizon? Do you think Verizon will ever be able to start raising dividends faster than ~2% per year or will this be as good as it gets?
Please share your thoughts below.
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