05-04-2014, 02:18 PM
(05-04-2014, 08:50 AM)cannew Wrote: I like the concept of asking "If the DG company I'm interested in will be here in 100 years". I've always used 50 years and look at the companies past 10 to 25 years of dividends and dividend growth when considering buying a stock. If it doesn't have a 10 year history I'm less likely to buy.
Agreed, the only stock in my DG portfolio which doesn't have a long history is KMI, though it went private several years back and only recently went public again, you can still use KMP as a semi-proxy.
Other than the BIIB and maybe CSCO all the others I can see as staples of a DG investment portfolio.