Comments on: Reading a Stock Quote: Yield http://thecuriousinvestor.com/2006/11/10/reading-a-stock-quote-yield/ Learn to invest in the stock market. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:52:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dan Hung http://thecuriousinvestor.com/2006/11/10/reading-a-stock-quote-yield/#comment-11 Dan Hung Mon, 13 Nov 2006 02:23:05 +0000 http://thecuriousinvestor.com/2006/11/10/reading-a-stock-quote-yield/#comment-11 I was going to mention DRIPs, but thought the post was getting a bit long. I also don't actually use a DRIP so I guess I don't have much to say about them. But, yes, after reading a bit about them, I was quite won over by them as an investment option especially for people who are okay looking long term with their investment (IRA perhaps?) which you essentially have to with any dividend based investing strategy. You also get to take advantage of waiting until you hit a lower tax bracket or hitting the lower tax bracket on capital gains made on long term investments (greater than 1 year). I was going to mention DRIPs, but thought the post was getting a bit long. I also don’t actually use a DRIP so I guess I don’t have much to say about them. But, yes, after reading a bit about them, I was quite won over by them as an investment option especially for people who are okay looking long term with their investment (IRA perhaps?) which you essentially have to with any dividend based investing strategy. You also get to take advantage of waiting until you hit a lower tax bracket or hitting the lower tax bracket on capital gains made on long term investments (greater than 1 year).

]]> By: Ken http://thecuriousinvestor.com/2006/11/10/reading-a-stock-quote-yield/#comment-10 Ken Mon, 13 Nov 2006 00:22:19 +0000 http://thecuriousinvestor.com/2006/11/10/reading-a-stock-quote-yield/#comment-10 My introduction to stocks came via a nice feature many dividend oriented stock have: that of the automatic DRIP (Dividend ReInvestment Program - the dividend payout is given in additional shares of the company rather than cash). This only makes sense if you plan on holding the stock for years, but it has the nice feature of dollar cost averaging for you automatically since you will be buying back stock every 3 months like clockwork. (dollar cost averaging basically allows you to net a lower per share cost over time by buying more shares when the price is low and fewer shares when the price is high). Some stocks have DRIPs that will allow you to purchase the shares at below market cost with the dividend payout. Any decent DRIP also has no transaction fees for the buyback. The snowball effect can be quite impressive if you build up a lot of equity and let the DRIP go for years... My introduction to stocks came via a nice feature many dividend oriented stock have: that of the automatic DRIP (Dividend ReInvestment Program - the dividend payout is given in additional shares of the company rather than cash). This only makes sense if you plan on holding the stock for years, but it has the nice feature of dollar cost averaging for you automatically since you will be buying back stock every 3 months like clockwork. (dollar cost averaging basically allows you to net a lower per share cost over time by buying more shares when the price is low and fewer shares when the price is high). Some stocks have DRIPs that will allow you to purchase the shares at below market cost with the dividend payout. Any decent DRIP also has no transaction fees for the buyback. The snowball effect can be quite impressive if you build up a lot of equity and let the DRIP go for years…

]]> By: The Curious Investor http://thecuriousinvestor.com/2006/11/10/reading-a-stock-quote-yield/#comment-9 The Curious Investor Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:10:32 +0000 http://thecuriousinvestor.com/2006/11/10/reading-a-stock-quote-yield/#comment-9 <strong>Reading A Stock Quote: General Stats...</strong> In our first series of posts, we will be dealing with the most basic part of analyzing stocks - how to read a stock quote (or stock table). We will be using the quick chart on bigcharts.com as our guide for this series. This is a basic stock quote and... Reading A Stock Quote: General Stats…

In our first series of posts, we will be dealing with the most basic part of analyzing stocks - how to read a stock quote (or stock table). We will be using the quick chart on bigcharts.com as our guide for this series.

This is a basic stock quote and…

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