Tag: dividends

This Gimmicky Dividend Strategy Will Cost You Money (Do This Instead)
These days, everyone is looking for safety—and that’s got some folks pondering some pretty, er, unusual strategies that seem secure but are in fact anything but. One such strategy is known as dividend capture, which sounds like a way to bag a company’s quarterly cash dividend without taking the risk of owning the shares. I don’t like the name because […]

3 Quality REITs To Buy With Secure Dividends
Income investors can find high dividend yields across the REIT universe. REITs – short for real estate investment trusts – operate across a number of sectors, including industrial, healthcare and retail. Laws govern payouts to investors. Realty Income (O) is a retail focused REIT that owns more than 4,000 mostly standalone properties. Federal Realty (FRT) was founded […]

Beat The Bear With 3 Tools: Dividends, Dividends And Dividends
It’s not easy to be upbeat in a bear market. This goes for people—and especially dividend stocks. (And hey, who has time for feelings? We are looking to get paid without losing our entire portfolios. We’ll share emotions when the bear is done.) For contrarians like you and me, it’s a time to be optimistic. We should be thinking […]

6 High-Tech Dividend Stocks To Buy And Hold
These dividend stocks have good dividend yields, low P/E multiples and good earnings outlook These are high-tech dividend stocks to buy and hold. Fear, uncertainty and doubt have led to lower stock prices, but the outlook for these may not be so deleterious, at least according to analysts. Microsoft (MSFT): This global high-tech stock has a […]

Ride Out The Recession With These Dividend Kings
Dividend Kings Are Proven Payers For Tough Times Recession or not, Dividend Kings have a proven track record of success that includes over 50 years of consecutive distribution increases. This tells us management has the foresight to run their companies profitably in both good times and bad. The stocks on our list today are not only Dividend Kings but […]

Where To Find 10% Yields At 20%-30% Discounts
Get your dip-buying lists ready, because it’s almost time to pounce. Just recently, I explained to investors that, as a contrarian, we only want to fully dive into the market when we have a clear edge—the kind of edge you get when Wall Street has fully capitulated: “We only want to fully invest when the regular investor has […]

6 High-Yield Dividend Stocks With Solid Earnings To Boot
These six high-yield dividend stocks have enough earnings to cover the dividend payments and make these stocks yields secure These high-yield dividend stocks have plenty of earnings to cover their dividend payments to investors. American Int’l Group (AIG): This stock has a low payout ratio of just 24% and a yield of 2.5% with a low […]

7 ETFs With Dividends To Fight Any Market Downturns
ETFs make it easy to add a dose of dividends to a portfolio Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) make it easy to a dose of recession-proof dividends. iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF (DGRO): Low-costs and growing payouts are a powerful combination. Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund (VYM): Investors looking for more can use this ETF of strong high-yielding […]