This is not a buy and hold investment strategy, rather it’s a buy and ‘monitor’ strategy where you sell a stock when it fails to meet the goal of generating an increasing stream of income by raising the dividend payment each year.
Fortunately, because we only purchase the best dividend growth stocks that have a long history of raising their dividend year after year, we rarely have to sell any stock. In those rare cases when we do have to sell a stock there are rules we follow.
When to Sell a Stock
Sell and replace a stock if any one of the following occur:
- Fails to increase the dividend for two consecutive years
- Cuts (reduces dividend) or suspends (no dividend)
- Is bought by another company (experiences a management change)
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