Why Apple Is a Great Dividend Stock, Despite Its Low Yield

One "siren's song" that lures in dividend investors all too often is an above-average dividend yield. After all, investors looking for income from their stock investments love to receive their dividend paychecks -- and the bigger they are, the better, right? Not necessarily.Investors looking to bolster their portfolio with dividends should carefully balance the importance of share price appreciation potential, dividend yield, and dividend growth potential. Too much focus on dividend yield could mean missing out on long-term appreciation in the underlying stock price and/or meaningful growth in a company's dividend payments over time.Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) is one of those companies that lacks in terms of dividend yield, but easily makes up for this weakness in other areas, particularly in terms of dividend growth potential.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool