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Growth and Dividends Go Together



Nilus Mattive discusses the distance Wal-mart has come in the past few decades. Mr. Mattive continues to speak about Wal-Mart and how it has continued to pay dividends to its shareholders and how those payments have increased with time and with the growth of the company.



Mattive believes that when a company is performing well, shareholders should be reaping the benefits. IBM was paying dividends when it was still selling meat and cheese slicers back in the early 1900s. And Wal-Mart is a prime example that proves dividends and growth go together.



Nobody would dispute Wal-Mart's position as one of the biggest growth stories of the 20th Century. In the span of a few decades, the company went from an unknown, small-town store to being known for big business. Sam Walton opened the first Wal-Mart in 1962. The company went public in 1970 and paid its first dividend in 1974. Wal-Mart had 125 stores in operation with sales of $340.3 million in 1975. By 2005, it was the world's largest retailer with annual sales reaching $312.4 billion.



Wal-Mart has not only continued to pay dividends, but it has steadily increased those payments along with its rising revenues and profits. Dividend investors know that in the theoretical world of academia, a perfect growth company may very well reinvest every penny back into its business. But in the real world, entrepreneurs, executives and shareholders want to reap some of the profits while the growth is happening.



"As my Wal-Mart example demonstrates, when a company is firing on all cylinders and bringing in cash by the boatload, it's more than capable of rewarding shareholders and totally dominating its industry," Mattive states.



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About NILUS MATTIVE & MONEY AND MARKETS     



    Nilus Mattive, a financial analyst at Weiss Research, is the editor of Dividend Superstars, a monthly publication and is also the editor of the company's daily e-letter, Money and Markets. Formerly a senior editor of Standard & Poor's The Outlook, the oldest continuously published investment newsletter in the country, he has written for a number of investment websites, including BusinessWeek and Individual Investor. Mr. Mattive is the author of The Standard & Poor's Guide for the New Investor (McGraw-Hill, 2004) and has appeared on the popular investment radio show, Traders Nation, to discuss his views on personal finance.



Mr. Mattive graduated cum laude from the University of Scranton.



Money and Markets (www.moneyandmarkets.com) is a free daily investment newsletter from Dr. Martin Weiss and Weiss Research analysts offering the latest investing news and financial insights for the stock market, including tips and advice on investing in gold, energy and oil. Weiss Research, Inc. is located in Jupiter, Florida. For more information about our editors, or to set up an interview, please contact Jennifer Moran at 561-627-3300 or visit www.moneyandmarkets.com.






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