This free online course will teach you how to select dividend stocks to help you focus on your long-term profit. When it comes to stock investing, the expression ‘buy low, sell high’ is frequently repeated as a winning technique. However, there is another option for investors to profit in the stock market: dividends. Dividends, in a nutshell, are a mechanism for businesses to distribute a portion of their profits to shareholders. This course will help you broaden your knowledge about dividends, investment platforms and companies to add to your portfolio.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 201553 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Outline the different stock trading platforms • Describe the most common investing mistakes • Indicate the ways to use balance sheets and cash flow analysis • Explain the importance of understanding a company's dividend history • Recognise the best dividend companies • Define the concept of ‘passive income’ • Identify stocks you should consider adding to your portfolio • List the steps involved in investing million dollars • Discuss ways to build long-term wealth |
| Course Code | 4734 |
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