Part One of this series introduced how dividend payments from shares can produce a growing income stream with minimal effort on your part, and certainly no need to frenetically ‘play the markets’ like a demented monkey bashing the bongo drums. (Remember, study after study has proven most share traders fail…
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“Buy! Buy! Buy!” shout the city folk in blue braces from one side of the trading pit. “Sell! Sell! Sell!” retort those with red neckties. Whatever happened to “Wait! Wait! Wait!” wonders your writer? These days sharetrading is conducted via computer – the trading is often done automatically according to…
Consider a fictitious company, Loadsamoney Ltd, whose shares cost 100p each, which is paying an annual gross dividend of 10p per year. The dividend yield is calculated by dividing the dividend by the share price, and then expressing it as a percentage. In Loadsamoney’s case then, the dividend yield is:…
