Are your dividends safe? The dividend cover ratio explained

How do you know if your dividends are safe? Tim Bennett explains the 'dividend cover ratio' - an crucial ratio for anyone investing in income-generating stocks.

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Tim Bennett explains the 'dividend cover ratio' - a crucial ratio for anyone investing in income-generating stocks. See also: What is a dividend yield?

See also MoneyWeek's financial glossary.

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Tim Bennett

Tim graduated with a history degree from Cambridge University in 1989 and, after a year of travelling, joined the financial services firm Ernst and Young in 1990, qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1994.

He then moved into financial markets training, designing and running a variety of courses at graduate level and beyond for a range of organisations including the Securities and Investment Institute and UBS. He joined MoneyWeek in 2007.

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