Chevron (CVX) Dividend Machine for week of June 25, 2012

Chevron, symbol CVX, is a wonderful dividend machine.  Just look at the fundamentals presented below to see how CVX performs on our four key dividend machine criteria.  Earnings over the past four quarters have been a robust $13.62 per share; paid dividends were $3.30 per share.   At today’s stock price of about $98.90 the dividend yield is 3.64%.   CVX just raised the quarterly dividend from $.81 per share to $.90 per share.  CVX has raised the dividend every year for 19 years; moreover, this company performs like this with only a 3% D/E ratio.

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PAY OFF YOUR HOUSE - ASAP

          It has been said the three most important inventions were the lever, the wheel and fire.  In personal finance, use of the lever provides significant advantage.

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Dow down 700 points in 5 weeks; should the income investor care?

                Income investors care about the Dow Jones Industrial Average because many of the quality, dividend producing companies we own are in this average. 

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Sell in May – why?

                Traders buy and sell stocks, bonds, and call options based on trends, charts, historical events and expected events.  Traders also buy and sell on expected unknowns.  They time the market and often times hold a position for less than a minuet.  We do not call these folks buy and hold traders.

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