[sershe]

There are lots of people commenting about dividends not being useful or whatever, but I think they are not your target audience :)

And for your target audience, the people who like dividend investing (or liked it in low rate environment, like me) you appear to be missing a key feature... many/most dividend investors are looking for companies with history of uninterrupted payouts with no decreases in dividend (cuts) over at least 10+ years (probably longer now, basically including at least one recession and the more the better). So, # of years without dividend cuts is an interesting number. Another interesting number is yield vs history (for a company with stable payouts it may indicate whether price is high or low, assuming the stable payouts continue).

It's basically supposed to be /a bit/ bond-like :)

[mystertea]

Really good info, thanks. I'll add the dividend cut metric to my list. Not sure what you mean by yield vs history. I do have a chart comparing the yield to the stock price over time, but the window is only 4 years back. I'll try and expand that window, too.

[sershe]

I may not be the best source on yield vs history, cause I learned about it by looking at stocks I bought that did not pan out. But yeah basically for a company with stable, decade(s) long payout, if yield looks low vs the long-term, the price may be too high. Of course, it can depend on future prospects, market conditions, etc. But in general all other things being equal it seems to hold for boring stocks.