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SJM - Coronavirus Roundtable - Quality Pays For Dividend Investors (Video)
J.M. Smucker Company
by Daniel Shvartsman
Dividend stocks, especially dividend growth stocks, already have something of a built in quality filter. In theory, at least, a company can't pay a dividend unless it has profits, and it can't grow its dividend unless it is growing its earnings.
At the same time, it's very tempting for investors to focus on the size of a dividend, and when a dividend is big, that is often a yellow flag for quality as the market may be expecting a dividend cut. The better quality companies trade at lower dividend yields and likewise