A common problem for Dividend Growth Investors
One problem that I think every investor has faced at one time or another is one where a particular holding, especially a long time holding, runs into some issues that change the investor's estimation of the risk of holding shares in that company. This is an issue when the estimation of the risk increases while at the same time the potential for reward does not proportionally increase. For dividend growth investors, this increased risk is often associated with a risk to the dividend.
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