Bruce Bentley

Safe dividend stocks are like the equity investment world's version of having your cake and eating it, too: Not only do investors get a nice dividend payout every quarter, but they also participate in the stock's gains. If the stock price slides, the dividend is there to cushion the blow. But how, exactly, does one determine whether a dividend is truly safe? One place we like to look on occasion is the DIVCON system from investment firm Reality Shares, which analyzes stocks that pay a dividend among the largest U.S. companies. These are not your conventional choices; they weren't picked just for their dividend yield. Rather, these are the safest dividend stocks, rated highest for both potential future cash payouts and share price increases. DIVCON (which stands for "dividend condition") uses seven factors to assess a company's dividend health: dividend growth forecast, levered free cash flow, earnings growth, five-year dividend history, buybacks, financial str...

It looks like Christian Berner Tech Trade AB (publ) (STO: CBTT B) will go ex dividend for the next 3 days. This means that investors who buy stocks on or after April 30th will not receive a dividend, which will be paid on May 6th. The next dividend payment from Christian Berner Tech Trade is 0.75 kr per share. In total, the company paid out a total of 0.75 kr to the shareholders last year. Based on the value of the payments made last year, Christian Berner Tech Trade's shares show a trailing yield of around 2.0% compared to the current share price of SEK 37.3. We love when companies pay dividends, but it's also important to make sure that laying the golden eggs doesn't kill our golden goose! We have to see if the dividend is covered by earnings and if it is growing. Check out our latest analysis for Christian Berner Tech Trade Dividends are usually paid out of company income. So when a company pays out more than it earns, its dividend is usually at g...