Apple Is Not A Retirement Stock
by Geordy Wang
With the brutal clobbering Apple (AAPL) has experienced recently, dipping below $500/share for the first time in almost a year this week, many market pundits are now calling the silver lining to the carnage: Apple's steep price decline has left its dividend yield at an attractive 2%. Parsimony Investment Research goes even further, identifying the dividend as "the most compelling reason to buy Apple right now." It's easy to see the appeal that a stock like Apple might have for dividend investors: at 2%, the yield just makes the cutoff for many investors' portfolios, and the dividend is funded by a low payout ratio of less than 25%, which means it has a lot of room to grow. Plus you get to own one of the most consistent long-term winners in the stock market, even after taking recent setbacks into consideration - hell, many dividend funds were secretly buying Apple before it announced a dividend. read more »
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