Tag: best dividend stocks
Why Dividend History Matters When Investing In Dividend Stocks
Dividends are an important part of shareholder total returns. The following chart compares the long-term price returns (excluding dividends) to the long-term total returns (including dividends) of the S&P 500 (approximated using the ETF SPY). The 10-year rolling total returns of the S&P 500 over the past 10 years have been, on average, 82% higher […]
4 Stocks To Buy For Big February Dividend Hikes
Today, I want to talk to you about my favorite strategy for beating the market and building long-term wealth. If you’ve been reading my regular columns on Forbes and ContrarianOutlook.com, you probably already know what it is: buy dividend growth. (I’ll name 4 individual stocks that should be on your list now in just a […]
Dividend Aristocrats That Dodge Disasters
My good friend Large Lou Sapino is an expert on vodka. Not long ago he asked me about Russian stocks. (A few weeks ago I told him that investing in Russian stocks is a dividend disaster.) Lou also happens to be a very smart real estate investor. He told me that investing in land out […]
These Buckeyes Don’t Play College Football
You wake up in a cold sweat. It’s a nightmare that haunts you and hammers you with the raw hurt of hindsight. Hindsight is more than 20/20. For investors, it’s both painful and helpful. When we look back on an investment that didn’t work out, it’s way too easy to see what went wrong. What’s […]
Dividend Investing Tips
He was wearing a Yankees cap, a crisp Brooks Brothers tie, and an Armani Collezioni Core Gio Two-Button suit. “Just give it to me straight,” he said in a voice shaped by serious net worth. “What are the three things you look for in dividend stocks?” It was a chance encounter at a busy restaurant […]
High Yield Dividend Stocks For Safety
On a mild Saturday night a few weeks back, I went with a good friend to Donovan’s on Prospect Street in LaJolla. What a terrific place, one of those classic American steakhouses we can’t seem to get enough of. It got me thinking about the strange similarities shared by steaks and stocks. A steak that […]
Dividend Payout Ratio Essentials
Things are rarely as simple as they seem, and rarely as simple as we’d like them to be… Especially when it comes to investing in the best dividend stocks. You know what we should do? All of us who follow the market should start off the day with a stiff drink of humility. We should […]
Dividend Investing Is Like NFL Football
I don’t know if it hits you. But this time of the year, there’s something akin to a spiritual reawakening. Football’s back. Let’s just get the hook for Deflategate. Enough already. And please, no dividend deflation. It’s tough enough making money on the market without dividend cuts. Before 4 o’clock on the afternoon on September […]
The Boring Stock Dividend That Can Light Up Your Future
I got in the elevator in my building the other morning at six o’clock. A friend of mine was in there. He’s 80 years old, and was heading out for his morning cup of coffee. He’s a Starbucks $SBUX fan, and a longtime Starbucks investor who has seen his stock split twice. We all get […]
Dividend History Helps You Pull In Higher Income
New Yorkers usually can’t resist taking a shot at California. All the superficial showbiz glitz. The shortage of history. I get it. When San Francisco started to boom, New York City was already a few hundred years old. But… When Juan Cabrillo sailed into San Diego harbor in 1548, New Amsterdam didn’t exist. And in […]
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