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Dividend investing

Choosing securities for a regular cash flow from payouts: what matters is not the price move but how steady and predictable the dividend itself is.

How to read the number

Ranking candidates on current yield alone gets nowhere: the things to look at are the share of profit sent out as a payout and the ability of the business to keep it up in a weak year.

When the metric lies

Also known as: income investing

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