Tim Plaehn

Tim Plaehn is the lead investment research analyst for income and dividend investing at Investors Alley. He is the editor for The Dividend Hunter, an investment advisory delivering income investments with double digit growth in share price and dividend payments, and 30 Day Dividends, a specialty income service that takes advantage of opportunities for relatively fast, attractive profits around potential dividend payouts.

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Strong Dividend Growth From Energy Midstream

Strong Dividend Growth From Energy Midstream

| May 21, 2025

Known for dividends and attractive yields, energy midstream stocks have been a hot stock sector for the last five years. For example, the Global X MLP & Energy Infrastructure ETF (MLPX) returned 239% over the last five years. The 2025 bear market (mid-February through early April) saw the midstream sector drop by 20%, similar to […]

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Buy This Dividend Stock Paying A 9% Yield With 100% Capital Appreciation Potential

Buy This Dividend Stock Paying A 9% Yield With 100% Capital Appreciation Potential

| May 7, 2025

On April 25, finance REIT Rithm Capital (RITM) reported the company’s first-quarter results, and the financials reinforced the fact that the RITM stock price is severely undervalued. Rithm reported earnings available for distribution of $0.52 per share for the quarter. A year ago, earnings came in at $0.48; two years ago, the number was $0.35 per share. […]

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Here Are The Latest And Greatest ETFs For High Yields

Here Are The Latest And Greatest ETFs For High Yields

| April 23, 2025

The rapid growth in the number of ETFs employing option strategies to generate high yields for investors has caused a lot of fund sponsors to try a wide range of option strategies and tactics. Of these, the so-called zero days to expiration (0DTE) strategy seems to show a lot of promise. The first 0DTE ETFs […]

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Where To Stash Your Cash During A Tariff Crisis

Where To Stash Your Cash During A Tariff Crisis

| April 9, 2025

When the markets become volatile, as we have seen them do over the last couple of months and even more so with recent tariff announcements I am often asked about safe places to park cash and earn a reasonable interest rate. Recently, a new ETF was launched that provides an interesting alternative to money market […]

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Snap Up These Two Weekly Dividend Payers Yielding 21% And 35%

Snap Up These Two Weekly Dividend Payers Yielding 21% And 35%

| March 26, 2025

On March 7, 2024, Roundhill Investments launched the first two ETFs utilizing zero-day-to-expiration (0DTE) options to generate income and pay dividends to investors. The team at Roundhill recently released a report detailing the returns and features of these two high-yield funds. The two Roundhill ETFs are: ·       Roundhill Innovation-100 0DTE Covered Call […]

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How Dividend Dates Work, And When You Actually Get Paid

How Dividend Dates Work, And When You Actually Get Paid

| March 12, 2025

Among the subscribers to my Dividend Hunter, there is a wide range of stock market investing experience. From the emails I receive, I know that it is easy for both beginners and more experienced investors to have trouble keeping up with how companies announce dividends and when you’ll see the cash in your brokerage account. […]

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Three Top-Yielding Crypto ETFs You Can’t Ignore

Three Top-Yielding Crypto ETFs You Can’t Ignore

| February 26, 2025

The SEC approved spot bitcoin ETFs just over a year ago, in January 2024. Eleven new Bitcoin ETFs received approval at that time. Over the course of 2024, fund sponsors launched ETFs that make short options trades to generate income, with Bitcoin ETFs or futures as the underlying assets. Investors and traders have long used […]

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Is It Wise To Invest In More Shares When A Stock Reduces Its Dividend?

Is It Wise To Invest In More Shares When A Stock Reduces Its Dividend?

| February 17, 2025

Recently, Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp. (OCSL), a business development company (BDC), cut its quarterly dividend by 27%. Usually, a large dividend reduction indicates that you should sell the stock if you own it. In the case of OCSL, however, it’s the opposite. The changes made by the company will make OCSL a better high-yield investment […]

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The Biggest Misconception About BDCs

The Biggest Misconception About BDCs

| February 3, 2025

I read a lot of articles analyzing the stocks of business development companies (BDCs). The article authors invariably classify BDCs trading at a premium to book value as too expensive, and the “deals” are the BDCs that trade at a discount to book value or NAV. There are two reasons I believe this is the […]

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Buy This High-Yield Energy Midstream Stock Before The Next Dividend Hike

Buy This High-Yield Energy Midstream Stock Before The Next Dividend Hike

| January 27, 2025

The investing public has begun to realize that AI will require a massive buildout of data centers, and those centers will require vast amounts of energy to power their services and keep them cool. For example, a Chat-GPT query requires almost 10 times the power of a Google search. Energy midstream companies provide the gathering, […]

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