Dividend cuts and suspensions can often come without warning. While investors may have suspicions about whether a company will make a change to its Dividend, there's no sure-fire formula for determining when that might actually happen.

But there are certainly warning signs that can help investors gauge the overall risk. When Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) announced that it was suspending its dividend in August, it may have caught income investors off guard. However, given the company's aggressive growth strategy and its poor financials, a reduction or suspension of the dividend shouldn't have been all that unexpected -- the writing was on the wall.

That's how I feel about another stock right now: Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ: WBA).

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