Given I am an Index Investor, Dividend Reinvestment isn’t really a big thing for me anymore, but at the time, it did play nicely for me. Whether you should invest in companies that pay dividends (and maybe should put that money into building the company) is an argument for other folks.
DRIP: Dividend Re-Investment Programs
Early in my investing career, I got around to calling my stockbrokers to ask to join the DRIP for every common stock I owned, and it has finally paid off!
What’s a DRIP?
DRIP is a Dividend Reinvestment Program, which most stocks typically offer you, so that you can buy stock with your dividend payments (instead of taking the cash). The cost of buying this stock is FREE, which is the best part, so I get more stock in something I already hold stock in AND I don’t have to pay any brokerage fees.
Doesn’t that sound like a good idea? Any leftover money goes to my account, and typically, you are only allowed to buy whole stock (i.e. you can’t buy 1.5 shares of XYZ).
The only problem I have run into is that I usually didn’t own enough common shares to get a large enough dividend to buy a share when dividend time rolled around, but this time two of my stocks came in!!! Whoo Hoo! I own 3 more shares! Not much? Well, we’ll see, but it’s a start!
Other Dividend ReInvestment Program Articles
- Boy am I a DRIP ? OK a bit of a neophyte start to the discussion about DRiPs.
- Drip, drip, drip a little more explanation of how I am using them.
- Dividend Reinvestment Update some of the work I have had to do to set up my DRiP .
- DRIPS: It Really Works! It has for me, mostly because I use them on Dividend All-Star stocks.
- DRIP: How's that again? An attempt on my part to clarify what I said in the previous post.
