Sunday, November 10, 2019

Div Tip #20: Dividends -- Keep 'em compounding

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Dividend Tips

Collecting dividends feels great.  Receiving payments in a check or seeing divs increment in your brokerage cash account provide a sense of satisfaction.  However, taking the payments in cash means removing them from your financial work force.  Those dollars are no longer employed for you.

Reinvesting divs through DRIPs results in greater future satisfaction than you may receive today because your dividend stream grows.  The longer your dividends are reinvested, the more they compound, the greater the growth, the better the result.  And the happier the investor!

Compounded returns a year from now will be nice.  Returns 10 years out will be great.  Being persistent over time means compounding divs for decades.  If you do that, you’ll be surprised as the dividend cash flow reaches critical mass, going vertical and putting a prosperous (and early?) retirement within reach.
 
The best investing advice is not glamorous.  Practical guidance for DIY Dividend Farmers offering good prospects for success?  Don’t chase unicorns.  Buy solid div stocks and keep ‘em compounding!    

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