Author Archive: 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.
Sell These 3 High-Yield Dividend Stocks
With my Dividend Hunter service, I provide a list of high-yield investments that I have deeply researched, and my analysis shows provide an attractive combination of current yield and dividend stability. As a high-yield stock expert, I often get asked questions about other stocks or investments that are not on my recommendations list. Sometimes a question will […]
3 High-Yield REITs For Conservative Investors
It has been a challenging start to 2019 for real estate investment trust (REIT) investors. At the start of the year, the REIT indexes zoomed higher. The last few weeks have investors wonder if the party is already over for the year. The financial media is placing blame in many places including trade wars, slowing […]
Pick Up These 3 High-Yield Stocks Raising Dividends In April
While the Fed has for now put interest rate increases on hold, I continue to receive questions on whether REIT values will be hurt by rising interest rates. It is a widely held –but inaccurate– belief that REIT values must fall if interest rates continue to increase. The fact that many REITs increase their dividends […]
It’s Time To Buy These 3 High-Yield 5G Dividend Stocks
The multitudes faster 5G wireless technology will start rolling out around the globe over the next few years. Under the 4G system, mobile data has grown 17-fold over the past five years. Verizon predicts that 5G will allow data speeds up to 20 times faster than 4G. This means 20 as much data will be […]
Buy These 5 High-Yield Dividend Stocks Going Ex-Div Next Week
I receive a lot of questions concerning dividend dates. Income investors can help their overall returns by understanding when shares must be owned to be entitled to receive the next dividend payment. Buying shares of a stock after it goes ex-dividend means you won’t receive the next declared dividend payment. You can quickly have cash […]
Own These 3 High-Yield Stocks While Experts Flip Flop On Interest Rates
Just a few months ago, bond “experts” were all over the financial news networks predicting the yield curve would soon invert. An inverted curve, where short-term rates are higher than long-term rates, is a reliable indicator that the economy will go to negative growth – a recession. At that time, the stock market was setting […]
Buy These Top 5 Energy Infrastructure Stocks Before They Raise Dividends
2018 was a terrible year for energy midstream company stock prices. The drops were fueled by distribution cuts from some major players, corporate restructuring moves, and a misunderstanding of the sector merits by the investing public. While there were valid reasons for many energy infrastructure stocks to drop in value, as is often the case, […]
Buy These 5 Dividend Aristocrats To Add Income And Stability To Your Portfolio
In this era of increased stock market volatility, a dividend focused approach can give peace of mind and likely a better chance at above average returns. The group of stocks called Dividend Aristocrats provide a good starting place from which to build and income focused stock portfolio. The Aristocrats are companies that have increased their […]
Buy These 3 Dividend Stocks Boosted By Emerging Trends For 2019
When a new year starts it is common for investors and even financial experts to take what happened last year and extrapolate those results into their expectations for the new year. It’s human nature to view events as linear, when the reality is that they move in cycles. 2018 was the year of renewed stock […]
Buy These High-Yield Stocks With PG&E Going Chapter 11
Two months after its stock started to crash, PG&E Corp. (NYSE: PCG) has made it official. The company will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the end of January 2019. The large California utility faces up to $30 billion in legal liabilities stemming from power infrastructure caused Northern California wildfires in 2017 and 2018. Here are a […]
