On a 20,000. INVESTMENT WHAT KIND OF DIVIDENDS COULD I EXPECT PER YEAR FROM PAST PERFORMANCE.

Oldman answered 2 months ago …

PFE (Pfizer) is indicating 3.9% dividends, PER has none. The question might be better formulated as "How secure is a $20K$ investment in Pfizer's dividend of $680/year?" (20000 x 3.9%).

I can't answer that. Pfizer is a well known name, but hasn't had a stellar recent price performance. Any company can cut its dividend. I can think of at least 50 different ways with more or less risk to earn more than $390/yr/10000 invested, from utilities and telephone companies, to Canadian Income Trusts to preferred stocks from sound companies, to bond ETF's and Treasury Direct purchases.

Look at T, ATPWF, VZ, BWX, HIO, HYG, PEMBIF, etc., as starting points, and don't put such a pile of cash into one seurity, unless that pile is <5% of your portfolio...and you place a 25% trailing stop, so the most you'd lose is 25% of your initial or grown investment.