Are These Dividends Going to Be Around for Long?
Published Wed, 18 May 2011 on The Motley Fool

But if anyone had a doubt about the power of dividends, they need only read Jeremy Siegel's The Future for Investors. In it, he writes: "Dividends matter a lot. Reinvesting dividends is the critical factor giving the edge to most winning stocks in the long run." An important metric for dividendsThe utility sector, in particular, is a gold mine for dividend investors, where the average industry yield is about 4%. Knowing how important dividends can be, it's important to examine how sustainable a company's dividend is.... Read more