Comments on: Updated Dividend Stock Pre-Screen Model

By: D4L

D4L — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:02:25 +0000

Jake: For how I calculate dividend growth rate, look at D4L-PreScreen.xls (http://dividendsvalue.com/tools/excel-models/). As for years of consecutive dividend increases, there is not a definitive place to pull this number. Often, I get several differnt numbers depending on where I look. My resources include: The company’s website, Yahoo Finance, DRIP Investing Resource Center and DividendInvestor.com. I have found errors in each of these, including the Companies’ web sites. There is some art involved.

Best Wishes,
D4L

By: jake

jake — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:20:28 +0000

where can i find information such as Max Div. Growth and Years of consecutive dividend increases?

By: Dividends4Life

Dividends4Life — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:06:38 +0000

Cheryl: Based on personal convictions I have avoided “sin” stocks. BX is not a stock that I track. Yahoo Finance shows it has only paid a dividend since 11/07.

Best Wishes,
D4L

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:53:12 +0000

I checked your database in the spreadsheet. Why don’t you like MO or RAI? They both offer great dividends.

Off topic – BX just distributed a 9.2% dividend. Do you think this will be the first of many nice dividends they will offer?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:34:00 +0000

D4L, one more... I changed the check for the 4 yr. average hurdle rate to:
AND(AVERAGE($J$10:$M$10)>$C$33,AVERAGE($K$10:$N$10)>$C$33,AVERAGE($L$10:$O$10)>$C$33,AVERAGE($M$10:$P$10)>$C$33,AVERAGE($N$10:$Q$10)>$C$33,AVERAGE($O$10:$R$10)>$C$33)

Then in C33 I place the hurdle rate I want, maybe not as high as 15%. In the long run, if you can consistently beat inflation from your dividenders you should do ok. Anyway, this way it's easy to see what hurdle rate applies.

BTW, I did find a misplaced paren. in the original formula. The last two averages are nested. Probably doesn't mean much.

Cheers,

V

By: Dividends4Life

Dividends4Life — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:04:00 +0000

Anon: Nice change. I do something similar in my production spreadsheet where I house the data for companies that pass the pre-screen.

Thanks for commenting.

Best Wishes,
D4L

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Hi, I made a quick change to make the dividend data populate automatically from the "Database" sheet. Place this in cell J9 and copy it to the right.
=INDEX(Dividend_History,MATCH(Stock_Ticker,Tickers,0),MATCH(J$7,Years_Available,0))

Now, you'll have to select the dividend history in the Database sheet (J5:T12) and Name the range Dividend_History, likewise for Tickers (A5:A12), Years_Available (J4:T4), and finally back on the Screen sheet name cell C6 Stock_Ticker. Put in the stock ticker into cell C6 and the dividend info should update automatically.

For the ambitious, one can fill in all the necessary data in the Database sheet for monitoring purposes. And if you really go nuts, a simple macro can scan the list of tickers and compile a list of the worthy ones for you.

Cheers,

V