Dividend Yield
3 CEOs With High-Yield Stocks You Need To Listen To
We are in the early days of the 2024 second-quarter corporate earnings season. For many of the stocks I follow, earnings results are often the only “real news” I can get about these companies. Earnings results show whether or not a company remains on track, is improving, or is going in the wrong direction. Small-to-mid-cap […]
A New Fund Sporting A 62% Dividend Yield
Rising interest rates generate negative returns for bond funds. To match higher yields, bond prices have to fall. In a higher-for-longer interest rate world, investors need alternatives to traditional bond funds. Today, let’s look at a bond fund using an alternate strategy that has generated excellent returns over the last three years. The iShares 20+ Year […]
How To Buy Yields Up To 12% For Pennies On The Dollar
As contrarians, we search for income stocks that vanilla investors hate. Today there are not many dividend deals left. No surprise, with the market levitating since last October. But! When we expand our search to CEFland, we do find a few closed-end funds (CEFs) left at the bottom of the bargain bin. Today we’ll discuss five that […]
My Ranking Of The Best 6%+ Yielding Income Investments
Let me start today’s article with an admission: Closed-end funds (CEFs) are my passion—but not only for their 8%+ dividends (often paid monthly). The main reason I’ve been investing in these terrific high-yield vehicles for years is, in fact, very personal: Over a decade ago, CEFs’ high yields gave me enough passive income to quit my job. […]
The High-Yield Way To Play Spiking Oil Prices
As tracked by the price of WTI, crude oil that serves as one of the main global oil benchmarks, crude oil has climbed from the recent $65 to less than $80 per barrel trading range. A few weeks ago, the WTI price rose above $80, and recent trading shows that level might become a new […]
The Most Intriguing ETF I’ve Ever Seen
I see newly announced ETFs hit my inbox almost daily, usually two or three at a time. We research, review, and recommend ETFs that use options strategies to boost yields or returns. Many of these funds, especially some of the single stock covered call ETFs, sport eye-popping yields. While distribution yields are not the whole […]
7 Life-Changing Dividends Up To 18%
A safe double-digit yield makes it a lot easier to retire. Today we’ll discuss a portfolio that pays 14.1% (that’s no typo). The math on 14.1% looks awesome. This yield generates $14,100 on a $100K every year. Or $141,000 on a million dollar portfolio. Contrast this with “the market”—$1 million plunked into the S&P 500 would only […]
Five Preferred Stocks For Massive Yields In 2024
Preferred stock issues can include a lot of specific features, such as whether they are cumulative or not, convertible or not, and whether there are extraordinary call provisions. With the massive increase in interest rates, preferred stocks with fixed-to-floating coupon rates are poised for significant, locked-in yield increases. That’s a massive 2024 profit opportunity just […]
3 Funds That Profit From “Economic Grumpiness” (Yields Up To 9.8%)
Here’s something you might be surprised to hear: according to the numbers, the US economy is actually doing well—and yet (almost) nobody wants to admit it! It’s a misconception we income investors can exploit with the three high-yielding picks we’ll cover below. It’s a weird turn of events, but it makes sense. Since the pandemic, […]
This Just Became The Best BDC For Income
Business development companies (BDCs) operate under special rules that limit the amount of debt they can use, and they must pay out 90% of net investment income as dividends to investors. That makes them excellent investments for those looking for income. And the best one in the business IPOd just four years ago, and has […]
