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A reliable investment strategy: Identify a widely diversified portfolio of high-quality stocks and build up additional holdings at favorable prices.
DRIPs can help you do that.
Even small investors can follow such a strategy by investing through dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs). That's because it takes ownership of only a single share of company stock to establish an account. Therefore, there is nothing to stop you from buying companies in a variety of industries.
As for buying at favorable prices, dollar-cost averaging virtually assures that you will buy most shares at favorable prices. And DRIPs provide an excellent way to dollar-cost average. These plans allow you to invest cash amounts to buy shares directly from the company. Once you are enrolled in a plan, you can invest amounts of as little as $25 or $50 (or many thousands of dollars) to buy shares or fractions of shares. That's different than the traditional way to invest, which is to pay brokerage fees to buy a certain number of shares.
Norfolk Southern Corp. (NSC)
Available from the Temper Enrollment Service: Yes
Last Update On: 03/28/2016:
Norfolk Southern Corporation is a holding company. The Company owns a freight railroad, Norfolk Southern Railway Company. The Company is engaged in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products and finished goods primarily in the Southeast, East and Midwest and through interchange with rail carriers, to and from the rest of the United States. The Company also transports overseas freight through various Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports. It provides logistics services and offers an intermodal network in the eastern half of the United States. The Company's system reaches various individual industries, electric generating facilities, mines, distribution centers, transload facilities and other businesses located in its service area. The Company's general merchandise market group is composed of five commodity groupings: chemicals metals and construction agriculture, consumer products, and Government automotive, and paper, clay and forest products. **Taken from Google Finance**
| Industry: | Railroads |
| Minimum Investment: | $25.00 |
| Maximum Investment: | $10,000/investment |
| Shares to qualify: | 1 |
| Recent Price: | 97.06 |
| Investing Fee: | $0! |
| Fee for Dividends: | $0! |
! = Company pays fees
Information is based on an annual survey and updated when company changes become available.