The previous year, 2020, was the worst year for dividend growth and dividend growth stocks due to coronavirus pandemic and global economic slowdown. As every economic sector witnessed a grinding halt, the stock market witnessed complete halt globally. According to the Dow Jones US Select Dividend Index, the dividend-paying companies fell by 5% during the previous year. Not only this, a couple of other indices including S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats and Dow Jones US Select 100 Dividend Index also did not perform well the same year. Now, as coronavirus is fading away, several other indices have started to rebound but…
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The IPO is usually known as an initial public offering. According to its name, IPO is referring to organizational shares which are offered by the company to the public who buy them at a particular price. Once this IPO is completed, the trading of shares continues publicly, and then prices will be adjusted in accordance with that. Those companies that are engaged in IPOs for receiving money from their shareholders and will then utilize that money for further growth. This is the reason that majority of the largest firms in the USA and other nations are publicly traded and the…
A key role is played by private equity companies in breaking or making businesses. These companies offer financial support to organizations by making investments in the firm’s private equity. Usually, after doing initial investment, organizations get puzzled in the chasm because of the absence of financial resources and this usually resulted in failure. Therefore, many times for making more investment than that of the affordable loss, companies, particularly startups, require the assistance of private equity companies to form the required traction which is needed for making them acknowledged in their field and industry of operation. Usually, private equity companies generate…
Amazon company was developed in the year 1994. As opposed to the common belief, this is now showing that Jeff Bezos contained the rags to riches story which everyone will love particularly in the USA. After all, the American Dream and the Land of the Free all appear to aim towards the single fact that if a person works hard, no matter if he is from the USA or any other country, will gain success. It is perhaps also why it is ascribed to a few of the popular and richest individuals in the USA and rest of the world,…
Water is an important part and parcel of our lives. Without water, one cannot think about existence at all because it is used for drinking, cooking, and drinking purposes. According to scientists, 80% of our body is made up of water. Almost 50% of our daily activities are directly or indirectly related with water. One can imagine how our lives will look if there is no water on this planet. Besides being useful, this liquid has vast health benefits as well. It is a vital part of all human organs. It helps in digestion of food that we eat. Water…
Around 25 years ago, it was not as usual to find a gay working at a senior position in any company even though various organizations claimed to have LGBT-friendly policies for such people. The situation was different. The people belonging to LGBT community had to fight for their basic rights for a long time. During 2013, the US Supreme Court allowed the federal government to not allow basic rights to people belonging to LGBT community. During the past 5 years, things changed a lot and the US government allowed same-sex marriages followed by similar legalization in other parts of the…
The coronavirus pandemic saga is about to end as the health companies have started to roll out the vaccine. The previous year witnessed economic chaos and havoc. The global economies were shattered. Millions of people were rendered jobless while hundreds and thousands lost their lives. Things are likely to gain little momentum during the first quarter of the current year. But global economic analysts are of the view that it will not be before the year 2024 that economic activities will reach the pre-COVID-19 level. So, it means things will be slow during the current year. Based on assumptions, investors…
The activity of paying dividends to shareholders is amongst the ways used by the biggest companies to return to their special shareholders. Usually, a set quantity of money is paid per share to shareholders in terms of the total shares they hold. This money being offered is received through the profit generated by the company. This sum of money could be any value or percentage taken from the net organizational profit and is usually shown as the percentage value of the share’s face value. This is completely the decision of the company as to how much can be the dividend…
VR or Virtual Reality is usually defined as the simulation generated by a computer whereby an individual can interact within the 3-dimensional artificial environment with the help of electronic devices including GTD or gesture-tracking devices and HMD or head-mounted devices. A highly immersive artificial world is given by VR that could appear quite real, using the latest AI technology. At present, the VR marketplace is not merely for the section of hardware that comprises of the high-tech PC, consoles, smart electronic devices, VR headsets, and smartphones. For remaining in the VR world, you require a 3D environment that is being…
We as human beings are born free. We have the choice to live a life of our own and plan according to our wishes. In reality, life is a cycle, we are born, grow up, get married, raise children, get old and die. We pass through various stages in a similar pattern as our parents did, their parents did, and their parents did, and their parents did. So, life is a cycle, and we are destined to do by nature what our elders have been doing in the past. We are living in a high-tech era. Our typical approach is…
I am sure that the majority of you have remembered the process of signing in, signing out, and then signing back for the purpose of sending chat notifications to your chat list on MSN messenger just for the purpose of gaining the attention of your loved ones. We have been remembering those times as those were the simplest days of our lives. This MSN messenger service reached its peak in the year 2009 with more than 330 million users active on the platform and the majority of them were from the USA. This service was halted in 2013. The nearest…
Factors that are working behind the real estate growth involve rapid urbanization as well as urban construction; increased investments towards the business of real estate, upsurge in corporate outsourcing; technological advancement; the necessity to build a highly sustainable living environment and to adopt effective and immediate measures for overcoming changes in climate. The “new normal” will need some time to progress, yet it is promising better opportunities for the real estate sector. USA was the biggest real estate market in 2019 with $3.41 trillion of the market size in 2019 followed by China, the UK, and Japan. All over the…