On Mar 14, 12:42 pm, "W. Wells" <ot...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Where is a good place to check the ability of a company to continue
paying
> its dividend?
I think the metric is payout ratio- percent of profits paid out. The
lower the better, with some latitude (maybe not as low as possible,
but if a company pay out 50 cents of every dollar of profit, there is
a possibility that lack of reinvestment into the business will hurt
the dividend down the line).
I would also look for dividend history- some stock charts show how
often the dividend price changes over time.
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