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PM Images Listen below or on the go on Apple Podcasts and Spotify Handling market volatility with long-term dividend growth investing. Prioritizing future dividends over immediate income, companies drowning in cash like Visa and Microsoft. This is an excerpt from a recent Investing Experts conversation . Transcript Rena Sherbill: Eli from Dividendology, welcome to Seeking Alpha's Podcast. It's great to have you. Thanks for joining us. What stocks are you most focused on? What would you say your top stocks that you're focused on these days? Dividendology : Obviously, we want to start with looking for quality companies that can grow their free cash flow . And I would actually make the argument that the highest quality businesses in the entire world all pay out dividends. Think of companies like Microsoft ( MSFT ) or Visa ( V ), and now we can even throw companies like Meta ( META ) and like Google ( GOOG ) ( GOOGL ) into that conversation. These are companies that generate really high levels of return on invested capital. They have high free cash flow growth rates. And so typically when you hear those things, you think, well, wouldn't paying out dividends prohibit their ability to grow? Wouldn't they just be better off reinvesting that capital back into the business? But here's what you have to understand. These companies have massive cash positions on their balance sheet. They are drowning in cash. And in fact, they generate so much cash, they can't intelligently reinvest it all back into the business. And a good example of this again is going to be Meta . They just burned $50 billion with no return on that 50 billion by investing into the metaverse. They would have been much better off actually paying that out as a dividend. And I think the management team has realized that because obviously like we've seen over the past year, they're now paying out a dividend. So we're not sacrificing growth for these dividend payments that we're receiving, we're actually receiving them because these companies are such quality companies, they’re generating so much cash that I can receive growing dividend income year-over-year. So I would say, one of the main companies I've been really building up over the past year is Visa. It's going to have a low starting dividend yield. So it depends on what your goals are. If you're someone closer to retirement or someone closer to living off dividends, maybe that's not the best investment for you. You want to look for a starting higher yield. But if you have a long-term time horizon , you look at the earnings projected growth rates for a stock like Visa, and it's going to allow them to grow dividends at a very high rate over the next few years, over the next few decades. So I'm looking for companies like that. Visa is a huge position in my portfolio. Microsoft is a huge position in my portfolio. And then, of course, I also have the Dividend ETF, ( SCHD ). I'm a long-term dividend investor. I wouldn't necessarily have a high risk tolerance, but I know that I can handle volatility because I'm investing for the long term. What do we know about the market over the long term? Well, the average return is somewhat between 8% to 9% and inflation adjusted maybe closer to 7%. But here's what's interesting about this. When we think about when it comes to retire, when it comes time to live off dividends, again, my long-term goal is to one day live off dividend income. If somebody were to try to retire in a year when the market goes down 20%, that can be pretty financially devastating for their ability to retire at that point. So what does this mean? If I'm willing to live off dividends, well, I actually don't have to worry about that sequence risk. I don't have to worry about what the market is doing at that specific point in time.Cerity Partners LLC raised its stake in shares of Ford Motor ( NYSE:F – Free Report ) by 10.8% in the 3rd quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 324,052 shares of the auto manufacturer’s stock after purchasing an additional 31,707 shares during the quarter. Cerity Partners LLC’s holdings in Ford Motor were worth $3,422,000 at the end of the most recent quarter. Other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Olistico Wealth LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Ford Motor during the 2nd quarter worth about $25,000. Family Firm Inc. acquired a new position in Ford Motor during the second quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Quarry LP purchased a new stake in Ford Motor during the second quarter worth approximately $27,000. Ridgewood Investments LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Ford Motor in the second quarter worth $28,000. Finally, Kimelman & Baird LLC purchased a new position in shares of Ford Motor in the 2nd quarter valued at $30,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 58.74% of the company’s stock. Analysts Set New Price Targets A number of brokerages recently weighed in on F. Morgan Stanley cut shares of Ford Motor from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and decreased their price target for the stock from $16.00 to $12.00 in a research report on Wednesday, September 25th. StockNews.com upgraded Ford Motor from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, August 2nd. Barclays reduced their price target on Ford Motor from $14.00 to $13.00 and set an “overweight” rating on the stock in a research report on Tuesday, October 29th. Royal Bank of Canada reaffirmed a “sector perform” rating and issued a $10.00 price objective on shares of Ford Motor in a research report on Tuesday, October 29th. Finally, Wolfe Research assumed coverage on shares of Ford Motor in a research note on Thursday, September 5th. They set a “peer perform” rating on the stock. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, eleven have given a hold rating and three have given a buy rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $12.02. Ford Motor Stock Performance Ford Motor stock opened at $11.14 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 2.34, a current ratio of 1.15 and a quick ratio of 0.98. Ford Motor has a 12 month low of $9.49 and a 12 month high of $14.85. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $10.86 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $11.43. The company has a market cap of $44.25 billion, a PE ratio of 12.65, a P/E/G ratio of 2.02 and a beta of 1.62. Ford Motor ( NYSE:F – Get Free Report ) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Monday, October 28th. The auto manufacturer reported $0.49 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.47 by $0.02. Ford Motor had a net margin of 1.93% and a return on equity of 16.16%. The business had revenue of $46.20 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $45.13 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $0.39 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 5.5% compared to the same quarter last year. Research analysts expect that Ford Motor will post 1.81 earnings per share for the current year. Ford Motor Announces Dividend The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, December 2nd. Investors of record on Thursday, November 7th will be issued a $0.15 dividend. This represents a $0.60 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 5.39%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, November 7th. Ford Motor’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 68.18%. Ford Motor Profile ( Free Report ) Ford Motor Company develops, delivers, and services a range of Ford trucks, commercial cars and vans, sport utility vehicles, and Lincoln luxury vehicles worldwide. It operates through Ford Blue, Ford Model e, and Ford Pro; Ford Next; and Ford Credit segments. The company sells Ford and Lincoln vehicles, service parts, and accessories through distributors and dealers, as well as through dealerships to commercial fleet customers, daily rental car companies, and governments. Recommended Stories Want to see what other hedge funds are holding F? Visit HoldingsChannel.com to get the latest 13F filings and insider trades for Ford Motor ( NYSE:F – Free Report ). 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