Tag: monthly dividend

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 […]

How To Earn Up To 12x More Yield Than The Market
“Buy and hope” investing has never been more hopeless. With bond yields doing a “moonshot” to 1.8%, they are now looking down at the S&P 500’s sad 1.3% yield. Still, let’s admit—these aren’t enough for us to be able to retire on dividends alone. Plus, we’re seeing serious volatility as the Federal Reserve hits the Pause button […]

This Monthly Payer Is Restarting Dividends And Paying A 5.5% Yield
The 2020 economic shutdown produced wildly different results for businesses, depending on their positions in the economy. Some sectors, such as technology, sailed through the shutdown without a scratch. Other economic sectors, such as travel and tourism, took a tremendous hit. Is now the time to shift from the 2020 winners into stocks that most […]

6 Monthly Dividend Stocks To Buy
These six stocks offer monthly payouts and potential upside [Editor’s note: “6 Monthly Dividend Stocks to Buy” was previously published in Sept. 2019. It has since been updated to include the most relevant information available.] Most dividend stocks pay their shareholders quarterly, but a few dividend-yielding stocks offer monthly distributions. The group is small: less than 100, with […]

Is This $4,424 Monthly Dividend Paycheck For Real?
I recently illustrated the dangers of trusting the Dividend Aristocrats to take care of your retirement needs. Their average yield of 2.4% is a fraction of what you’ll need to retire on dividend income alone, and their payout growth—while long-standing—isn’t rapid enough to get you where you need to be when it’s time to call it a […]