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These 6.8% Dividends Are Quietly Minting Millionaires
If you’re like most income investors, you’re on the hunt for stocks and funds that can stand up to a storm these days. So that’s what I’m going to give you below—in the form of three “all-weather” closed-end funds (CEFs) kicking out an outsized 6.8% average yield. They’ve stood firm through every headwind imaginable—wars, pandemics, inflation, you […]
Is It Wise To Invest In More Shares When A Stock Reduces Its Dividend?
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 […]
This “Tariff-Proof” 10.4% Dividend Will Shine In 2025
Contrarians that we are, we know when we hear things that sound like “common wisdom,” we need to look just a little bit deeper. Today, that’s what we’re going to do, with a common refrain we’re hearing a lot—that tariffs will lead to a spike in interest rates. Then we’ll look at a bond play that’s set to benefit […]
Data Centers Lift This Top Performer – And It’s Not An AI Stock
Key Points The stock has averaged a 17% annualized return per year over the past five years. High performance computing data centers have been the main revenue driver for AI stocks like NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) and Micron (NASDAQ:MU), to name a few. But the emergence of these facilities where massive amounts of data are processed have lifted stocks […]
How Investors Got The AI Selloff All Wrong (And 2 Big Dividends To Play It)
Here’s my take on the DeepSeek selloff we saw last week: It’s a buying opportunity, especially for income investors. (I wrote a bit about this in last Thursday’s article. Since the market has rebounded a bit since, we’re going to talk about it more today. A preview? It’s not too late to buy the dip.) Income Investors: […]
The Biggest Misconception About BDCs
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 […]
3 Funds For 8.8% Dividends And Upside Potential In Trump 2.0
With the new administration now in full swing, market events are coming our way at a furious pace. One thing that’s clear about the next few years? Volatility is likely to tick up, especially with stock valuations stretched. Now more than ever, we need to be diversified, so we’re set up to offset any shocks […]
Buy This High-Yield Energy Midstream Stock Before The Next Dividend Hike
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, […]
Let’s Start Trump 2.0 By Dumping These 6 Losers
We are now officially into Trump 2.0, and here’s the first thing I can tell you: This new administration will hurt the returns of folks who simply buy an index fund like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) and call it a day. What we’re now embarking on is a true stock picker’s market—a time when […]
Why Main Street Capital Is The Best BDC
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 […]
