Immelt is not offering to raise the payout in 2009, just hold it at the 2008 level, and while the current dividend offers a juicy 10.3% yield to new investors, shareholders who paid three times the current price as recently as a year ago are getting a bond-like return with a stock-like risk.
The carbon fee and dividend offers the most promising path they can both agree on.
Given the amount of uncertainty cities face, and the budgetary constraints to boot, it's no surprise that cities are looking for the multiple wins that the resilience dividend offers.
Reinvested dividends offer some solace.
Equity income funds, which invest in shares such as Shell and HSBC and rely on them paying dividends, offer higher income and the potential to grow your capital, but are more risky.
A popular third choice, stocks that pay big dividends, offers elements of both types of assets: growth prospects and regular income that is often higher than that of high-quality bonds.
Shares of companies that are large dividend payers offer better income and better value, in his view, making them better risks.
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Against this progress we believe the calendar PEs of 9.8 times in 2011 and 8.8 times in 2012 (coupled with a 4.9% dividend yield) offer significant share price upside.
It will probably be blue-chip, quality names that pay dividends and offer conservative investors some comfort".
