Tag: dividends
Top 10 Reasons I Love Dividends, And You Should Too
Over the decades, I have seen friends, relatives, and acquaintances lose their entire investment portfolios due to stock market crashes. Some of these folks, along with many, many other investors, gave in to fear and sold at the worst time in the markets. In truth, the human nature pushes most investors to follow the greed […]
3 Deep Value Stocks for Income and High Total Returns
They offer a blend of dividend safety, payout growth, current yield and capital appreciation potential Income investors sometimes take the route of finding the best income stocks to meet their needs based upon criteria like dividend safety, dividend growth potential, or historical dividend streak. These can help investors find great value stocks that will provide them with […]
9 Beaten-Up Tech Dividends Up to 5.9%
The Nasdaq’s recent quick 11% slip earned the “correction” label. This alarmed many newbie investors who bought technology shares hoping they would keep heading higher. We careful contrarians, on the other hand, welcome pullbacks like these. Being focused on income, we are now able to go shopping and secure more tech dividends per dollar. The only “catch” is that […]
7 Great Dividend Stocks Outside the Energy Sector
Dividend stocks cross many industries and these worthwhile companies pay them Last year was a tale of two halves for dividend stocks. The novel coronavirus pandemic made the first half of 2020 a period of payout cuts and halts by S&P 500 Index names, but payouts came back mightily in the second half of the year, indicating that […]
No Rate Worries Here, Just Tax-Advantaged Yields Up to 7.8%
Does a rising 10-year Treasury yield mean we should move on from municipal (muni) bonds? We’ll talk muni strategy in a moment. First, let’s pay homage to these tax-efficient payers. Munis are superior to Treasuries two ways. First, they pay more. Even with the 10-year rate popping above 1.6% earlier this week, we can double […]
These Stimulus-Powered Investments Could Soar 53%+
There’s $2 trillion in cash headed straight into the US economy, and today we’re going to grab a share, both in the form of price gains and dividends. I’m talking about the latest stimulus plan that’s made its way through the House of Representatives. While plenty of folks fret over the rise in public debt this $1.9-trillion […]
Dividends From Penny Stocks?
When you spend as much time researching the stock market as I do, you come to understand a handful of fundamental truths. One truth is most investors fall into one of two camps… those investing for big gains and those investing for yield (dividends). Funny as it may sound, you don’t normally get a lot […]