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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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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Why Main Street Capital Is The Best BDC

Why Main Street Capital Is The Best BDC

| January 20, 2025

Main Street Capital (MAIN) usually sports the lowest yield and largest premium to NAV. Investors ask me why I recommend Main Street Capital with such a low yield compared to other BDCs and why I am willing to pay such a premium for the shares. As a start, based on its regular monthly dividend, Main Street […]

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How To Play In The Private Equity Sandbox

How To Play In The Private Equity Sandbox

| January 8, 2025

A recent article highlighted the trend of the number of publicly traded companies shrinking and the rocketing number of private companies. Instead of looking for a big IPO payday, company founders and their private equity partners are choosing to stay private and keep profits to themselves. This chart shows changes in public vs. private companies over […]

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Time To Buy This Stock Yielding 30%?

Time To Buy This Stock Yielding 30%?

| December 30, 2024

This can be a frustrating time of year for investors in the types of stocks I follow and recommend. With little to no news about smaller companies, share price movement can be very random, and a random down will make investors ask: “why?” The real news is scarce for stocks that aren’t in the news […]

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Unlock Massive Dividends With These High-Yield Bitcoin ETFs

Unlock Massive Dividends With These High-Yield Bitcoin ETFs

| December 18, 2024

Until fund sponsors developed ETFs that pay big dividends, I viewed cryptocurrencies as products without any practical use. But now, with the advent of covered call ETFs that use Bitcoin as the underlying asset, I have become a Bitcoin fan. A recent Wall Street Journal article discussed why the limited supply is fueling the Bitcoin rally. The […]

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