Brett Owens
Brett Owens is the Chief Investment Strategist at Contrarian Outlook.
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3 “Essential” Stocks With Dividends Growing Up To 400%
Food stocks have been hit hard this year—and we contrarian dividend shoppers can no longer ignore the bargains on offer! Investors’ overly negative take on these “essential” dividend plays makes zero sense because: The result? Grocery bills that drain our wallets faster than we can fill our carts! These conditions are worrying, to be sure. But they […]
Swimming Upstream: 5 Stout Dividends Yielding Up To 25%
Want to know the secret to retiring on dividends alone? Keep that capital intact. We invest to generate income. The more we have, the greater our potential payouts. So, losing principal is the cardinal sin. We want our dividends. And we want our prices intact, or better. (If they grind higher, we don’t argue!) Stocks that […]
Our 3-Part Strategy For 20%+ Dividend Growth In 2023
If 2022 taught us anything, it’s that we need to swing our portfolios away from this: We’re Fading “Cardiac” Share-Price Action Like This … That’s the chart of “America’s ticker”—the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY)—last year. I call SPY “America’s ticker” because it’s by far the most popular way to track the S&P 500. But its popularity […]
The Dow’s Biggest Dividends: Here Are 2023’s Dogs
Looking for the Dogs of the Dow, 2023 edition? You came to the right place. We’ll explore these 10 blue-chip dividend bargains in a moment. Collectively, they are yielding 4.5%! But first, a quick recap of the strategy and homage to its 2022 “mini miracle.” Last year was a dumpster fire for most mainstream investors. […]
How We’ll Build An Automatic “Dividend-Momentum Machine” In 2023
We dividend investors know that 2023’s going to throw us some curveballs. So let’s talk about a simple strategy that helps us buy more shares of our favorite stocks during pullbacks. Because the truth is, the Fed is still hiking, inflation is well north of 2% and the economy is humming along. That last point is a headache for […]
5 Ways To Find The Best Long-Term Dividend Stocks
We love dividend stocks because they pay us now. But hey, I’m greedy. And when I research income plays, I want more than just those payouts. I’m looking for price gains, too. Give me a dividend with a stock that could potentially double, and we’re talking. These types of stocks are rare, but they’re not impossible […]
2 Cheap Dividends (Growing 275%) Insiders Are Buying Hand Over Fist
We have plenty of cheap dividend stocks to buy today. But which ones are really bargains—and which are cheap for a reason? The P/E ratio won’t tip us off. We’re heading into a recession. That “E” stands for earnings. Profits can disappear quickly if we’re not careful. Let’s look past the vanilla headline metrics and instead search where almost […]
How To Grow Your Income By 10%-50% Every Year
Bear markets are great for calculated contrarian investors like us. We have many dividend growers in the bargain bin. I mean, it’s rarely this stuffed. We have lots to sort through today. Specifically we’ll talk about 43 dividend payers that are about to announce their next payout hikes. Most of these stocks are cheaper than they were at the start of the year. […]
This Dividend Catalyst Creates Safe 15% Yearly Returns
Why chase the market when we can let 15% per year—every year—come to us? This is the perfect time to buy what I call “hidden yield” investments. These are stocks that dish out dividends today. But, more notably, they have an important catalyst coming in the year ahead that will help boost their stock prices. This trigger is so powerful […]
Our Plan To Ride The “Biden Buyback Tax” To Big Gains (And 1 Ticker To Buy Now)
There’s a group of dividend stocks out there that are set to skyrocket as the new “Biden buyback tax” rolls in. These “dividend moonshots” are hiding in plain sight. Most people miss them because they’re looking at the wrong numbers: they’re obsessed with “first level” measures like dividend yields, P/E ratios or whatever. But we […]